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Project management is the disciplined application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet clearly defined requirements. At its core, it is about planning, organizing, and controlling resources so that specific goals are achieved within well-understood constraints. A project is...
The PMBOK describes five process groups that represent the phases every project moves through, often iteratively rather than strictly once. The Initiating process group is where the project is formally authorized and the project charter is created, with high-level risks, milestones, and stakeholders identified. The Pla...
Sound planning rests on a few well-established tools that translate the project scope into something schedulers and cost analysts can work with. The Work Breakdown Structure, or WBS, is a hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work into progressively smaller and more manageable sections called work packages....
Risk Management ensures that uncertain events, which can affect objectives positively or negatively, are identified, analyzed, prioritized, and addressed. The process begins with planning how risk activities will be conducted, continues through identification and qualitative and quantitative analysis, and culminates in...
Beyond the universal tools, organizations choose a methodology, or overall approach, that shapes how phases are sequenced and how teams collaborate. The Waterfall methodology is a linear, sequential approach in which phases such as requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance are completed...
Every project needs formal mechanisms to start, to change, and to end. The project charter is the document that formally authorizes a project. It names the project manager, defines high-level objectives and scope, identifies key stakeholders, and clarifies the manager's authority level, and it is typically issued by th...