Step 1.2 What is project management? What is your role?
Project management is a formal discipline for managing projects. Project management has been developed over the past few decades as it has become apparent that without a structured approach, people are not very good at completing projects successfully. The aim of project management is to ensure that projects are completed and that the end point (the new house, computer system or new product) is achieved. More than this, project management is about reaching that end point predictably, which usually means to a given cost and within a planned amount of time.
As you read this book you will learn that successful project management is all about structure, control, sufficient attention to detail ...
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