Applying what you know, the skills you have, the tools you’ve learned, and the techniques you’ve picked up to guide a project from beginning to end.
In the previous posts, project and project lifecycle were defined. Now let’s dive into project management. PMI defines it as: the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements. Project management refers to guiding the project work to deliver the intended outcomes.
I really like this definition because the folks that ‘do project management’ are practitioners. Projects come in many different shapes and sizes and must be approached differently. So to do project management effectively, you know that there is an art and a science to it.
So really the topic of project management is vast and well beyond the scope of this single post. That’s why there are 30 different posts in this series. Each one will go into a bit of detail about the things that factor into the practice of project management.
For now, here’s a little bit more from PMI regarding project management. They offer 12 project management principles in their legendary and consistently updated Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) publication:
- Stewardship
- Team
- Stakeholders
- Focus on Value
- Systems Thinking
- Leadership
- Tailoring
- Quality
- Complexity
- Risk
- Adaptability and Resiliency
- Change
Want to learn more about Project Management? See my Project MGMT publication for these 30 key PM topics:
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