Project management is a collection of techniques for proposing, planning, implementing, managing, and evaluating projects, combined with the management of the people executing the project. It is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a broad range of activities to meet the specified requirements of a particular project.
The processes, methods, skills, knowledge, and experience of project management are applied to achieve specific project objectives according to the project acceptance criteria within agreed parameters.
The key difference between project management and just 'management' is that project management has final deliverables and a finite timespan, unlike management which is an ongoing process. Because of this, a project professional needs a wide range of skills; often technical skills, and certainly people management skills, and good business awareness.
- History of Rocky Flats
- Increasing the Probability of Program Success
- What Does Done Look Like?
- Strategies to Detect, Prevent, and Correct Causes of Project Stress and Failure
- Making the Impossible Possible
- Fallacy of the Week - Use and Misuse of Goodhart's Law
- Management Principles
- Resources for #PMChat Talk
- Project Management According to Yogi Berra
- Program Management Office Services
- How Do Projects Fail? Let Us Count the Ways
- Can This Really Be True?
- What We Knew in the 1940's About Managing Projects
- Four Root Causes of Project Failure
- Root Cause of Project Failure
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success
- How Projects Go Bad - No Matter the Domain, Method, or Tool
- Applying Project Control Processes to Agile Development Projects
- The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management
- The Practitioner's Handbook of Project Performance
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success (A 5 Part Series)
- Capabilities Based Planning
- Rechtin's Paradigm and Project Management
- Darwinian Truth and Reality in Software Development Management
- Project and Program Management Symposium
- Project Management + Systems Engineering = Increased Probability of Project Success
- Increasing the Probability of Project Success (PoPS)
- Lessons Learned from the Columbia Disaster (Update)
- Any Effective Process Must ...
- Program Management Office Situational Awareness
- What's Missing from the Agile Software Development Paradigm
- Agile for Project Managers
- High Integrity, Fail-Safe, Software Systems
- Cost and Value Management for Software Development
- 3 Questions That Must Be Asked at Every Project Management Meeting
- Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures
- The CIO's Contribution to Project Failure
- Resources for Good Project Management
- Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success
- Connecting "What" with "How" - and the Failure to Understand the Principles of Systems Engineering and Systems Management
- Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty
- Don't Be Fooled
- Is There an Underlying Theory of Software Project Management?
- Black Swans
- Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them
- INVEST, Scrum, and Enterprise IT
- Project Versus Product in Agile Development
- Coherent Design and Development Process
- 18 Critical Success Factors for All Project Work
- Physical Percent Complete: Knowing When You Are Done
- Increasing the Probability of Program Success
- Integrated Master Plan - Revisited
- Process is King Part 2
- Building the "Perfect" Schedule
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management
- Concept of Operations
- Concept of Operations
- From Mission Capabilities to Done
- Why Having a Dataset "may" be Necessary but is Far from Sufficient to Support a Position
- An Incremental Paradigm
- Performance-Based Project Management®
- Agile Project Management Methods
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success
- Performance-Based Project Management®
- Principles, Processes, and Practices of Project Success
- Principles, Processes, and Practices of Project Success (Part 2)
- Project Success Means Knowing ...
- Dunning-Kruger and Modern Software Project Management
- Accountability on an Agile Software Development in the Presence of Governance
- Connecting Five Principles, Processes, and Practices of Project Success
- The Myth of Standish Reports - Update Number 2
- Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making (Part Deux)
- The Long Forgotten Nine Best Practices of Project Success
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success
- 30 Problems That Affect Software Projects
- Project Breathalyzer
- Products, Product Management, and Project Management
- All The World's a Random Variable
- What is Project Management and Why Do We Need It?
- Why Do Projects Fail?
- Root Cause of Project Failure
- Capabilities Based Planning
- Everything I Learned About PM Came From an Elementary School Teacher
- Who's Budget is it Anyway?
- The Fallacy of the Planning Fallacy
- When Is Delivering Early Not That Much Value?
- Probability and Statistics of Project Work
- Good Project and Bad Project
- Your Project Needs a Budget and Other Things
- Closed-Loop Control
- Agile Program Management
- What Informs My Project Management View
- Critical Thinking - The Missing Element in Project Management Processes
- Project Driven Organizations
- Project Driven Organizations (Part 2)
- Principles Trump Practices and Processes
- Why Is It Hard To Manage Projects?
- More Than Target Needed To Steer Toward Project Success
- Can Enterprise Agile Be Bottom-Up?
- All Project Work is Probabilistic Work
- Don't be an Accidental Project Manager
- First Comes Theory, Then Comes Practice
- How to Deal With Complexity In Software Projects?
- How To Assure Your Project Will Fail - UpDate
- Project Finance
- Elements of Project Success
- Connecting the Dots Between Principles and Practices of Project Success
- Do It Right or Do It Twice
- Why Software is Like Construction and Why it is Not
- Three Steps to Delivering Complex, Mission-Critical Programs
- Showing Up On Time, On Budget, With Needed Capabilities
- How Not To Develop What "Done" Looks Like
- Project Management and the Three-Body Problem
- Seven Immutable Activities of Project Success
- Elements of Project Success
- Financial Accounting Versus Project Accounting
- Project Accounting
- The 5 P's of Project Management Success
- Teams, Teaming, Team Management, and Measurable Outcomes
- Five Ways To Rethink Software Projects
- Indicators of project performance provide us with "Steering Inputs"
- Why the Triple Constraint Notion is a Bad Idea
- The Myth and Misunderstanding of Waterfall
- What is Project Management About?
- Seven Principles of Project Success (A NASA Handbook)
- Five Core Processes of Project Success
- Complex Problems Require Better Solutions
- Principles First, Then Practice
- Project Controls is the Basis of Project Management
- So You Want To Work In Program Planning and Controls?
- What's Missing from Project Management in IT
- Managing Your Project Performance Using 2nd Grade Class Concepts
- It Can't Be Any Clearer Than This
- Competency Model For Project Managers
- Good Project Management Advice
- Rings of Success
- What Is Program Controls?
- The Critical Missing Element of Most Project Management Methods
- The Simplest Of Ideas
- Plan of the Day
- The Train Wreck for all Projects Starts With These Problems
- PM as a military process
- The 5 Whys and Good Project Management
- All Projects Must Have a Strategy for Success
- Evidence of 5 Immutable Principles of Project Success
- Hierarchy of descriptions of DONE
- What is a project really?
- Running a Project Status Meeting
- 5 Immutable Project Success Processes (Again)
- How Long Are You Willing To Wait To Find Out You're Late?
- Project and Program Management Competencies
- Are We There Yet?
- We Have Found The Enemy and He Is Us
- Finding the Reasons for a Project
- What Does "DONE" Look Like?
- Yet another bad example of using or misusing the waterfall paradigm
- Can Agile Fix Bad Project Management?
- What is a good performance metric?
- What Does a Project Management Process Provide?
- Black Swans and Intentional Ignorance
- Project Success
- What Does a Program Manager Do?
- Core Competencies of a Successful Project
- Project Success Criteria
- Competency-Based Project Managers
- The Myth of Traditionally Structured Projects
- Looking for a Credible Project Management Framework?
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management and the Presentation
- The Poverty of Project Management Role Definition
- The Late Finish Strategy
- 5+1 Questions for Success
- Why We Get Confused About Managing Projects
- If you have a Talking Dog, you don't need a control group ...
- The Problem With Deadlines
- Making Trades in the Iron Triangle is a Ponzi Scheme
- The Psychology of Risk
- Project Management of Software Development Projects
- Program Controls
- Performance Measurement?
- Project Disentanglement
- The F.I.S.T. Principles
- Navy Seals are Project Managers
- Moving Beyond the Obvious
- What is Project Management?
- The Whole Brain Look at Project Management
- How To Behave Like a Professional Project Manager
- Check List for Managing a Program
- Milestones are Rocks on the Side of the Road
- Describing What "Done" Looks Like
- The 3 Elements of Project Management
- Sources of Program Failure
- Software Complexity and Program Management
- Project Rhythm
- The 4 Questions That Must Be Answered
- Long Live the Gantt Chart
- You Know You're Managing a Project When - V2
- The Gardening Analogy for Project Management
- Rediscovering how (some) A&D programs are managed
- Is Software Development Management Project Management?
- If I'm Doing Project Management Right am I Agile?
- Dumb Project Management Questions
- Simple Never Is
- The 5 P's of Managing Projects
- Irreducible Functions of Program Controls
