What Is Project Management?
The PMBOK definition of project management is “. . . application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to achieve project requirements. Project management is accomplished through the application and integration of the project management processes of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing” (PMBOK 2004, p. 8). Project requirements include the PCTS targets mentioned previously. The various processes of initiating, planning, and so on, will be addressed later in this chapter, and the bulk of this book is devoted to explaining how these processes are accomplished.
It would be better if the PMBOK specified that a project manager should facilitate planning. One ...
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