Project management

Project management (hereinafter, the Management) is practice and a set of concepts related to leading and directing of projects. The Management aims to achieve specific goals and to meet specific success criteria. The Management often has a defined beginning (often, constituted by funding) and ending (often, constituted by bringing desired deliverables to their beneficiary).

Definitions

According to Educaship Alliance LLC,

Project management. Practice and a set of concepts related to leading and directing of development of those new products that have their future characteristics identified in advance. That development is called a project and may include discovery, analysis, design, and implementation.

Project Management Institute (PMI) studies only the subset of the Management in which (a) projects are formally-defined, (b) often, project manager and project sponsor are different roles, and, (c) usually, some project team is supposed to work on a project. According to PMI,

Project management. The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.

Project management vs effort administration

Main wikipage: Project team management

Often, the Management is defined as management of the work of a project team, which is literally incorrect. Project team management should be considered as a separate set of concepts since the overwhelming majority of projects require no project team working on those.

Inspiring quotes

• First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. -- Aristotle, Philosopher
• I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people. -- Dean Kamen, American Entrepreneur and Inventor
• All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result. -- Stephen Covey
• No matter how good the team or how efficient the methodology, if we’re not solving the right problem, the project fails. –- Woody Williams
• One of the true tests of management is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. -- Arnold Glasow
• Operations keep the lights on, strategy provides the light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward. -- Joy Gumz