Project management
Project management is the discipline of carefully projecting or planning, organizing, motivating and controlling resources to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
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Description
A project is a temporary endeavor designed to produce a unique product, service or result with a defined beginning and end (usually time-constrained, and often constrained by funding or deliverables) undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value.
Temporary nature of projects
The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with business as usual (or operations), which are repetitive, permanent, or semi-permanent functional activities to produce products or services.
In practice, the management of these two systems is often quite different, and as such requires the development of distinct technical skills and management strategies.
Challenge
The primary challenge of project management is:
- To achieve all of the project goals and objectives
- While honoring the preconceived constraints
Constraints
The primary constraints are:
The secondary — and more ambitious — challenge is to optimize the allocation of necessary inputs and integrate them to meet pre-defined objectives.
Fast, cheap, or good -- pick one
A common saying in design and manufacturing.
See fast, cheap, or good -- pick one.
Software development process
See Software development process.
Technical debt
See Technical debt.
See also
External links
- Project management @ Wikipedia
