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Project Management Orientation

What Is Project Management?

People sometimes use the terms project management, project, subproject, and program without understanding their meaning. So let’s first define these terms and compare their meaning. Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder objectives and expectations from a project (from PMI).

Project management supports three basic levels of projects: projects, subprojects, and programs.

What Is a Project?

A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to produce a unique product or service.

A project is a unique process, consisting of a set of coordinated and controlled activities with start and finish dates, undertaken to achieve an objective that conforms to specific requirements, including the constraints of time, cost, and resources (from ISO 10006).

Projects differ from operations, such as manufacturing, in that operations are ongoing and repetitive, while projects are temporary and unique (from PMI). Projects can range from simple efforts to large, complex undertakings that require much time, effort, and money.

Program, Project, Subproject diagram
1: Getting Started
2: Define the Project Team
3: Team Management
4: Identify and Validate Requirements
5: Create Decomposition Structures
6: Risk Management
7: Project Estimates
8: Project Schedules
9: Change Management
10: Project Control and Execution
Defining the Project
11: Project Management Review
12: Project Closeout
13: Project Management Tool Suite
14: Self-Assessment and Final Exam
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