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What Does Project Management Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Project management is a method of organizing all activities related to a project and its parts. The purpose of a project may range from new product development to a service launch.<\/p>\n

The completion of all project objectives is project management’s primary challenge. Unlike a standard business process, a project is a unique and temporary creation that consumes resources, has a beginning and end and operates according to specified funding and budgetary constraints.<\/p>\n

The Best Project Management Solutions<\/span><\/h2>\n

Manage all your projects with ease, mitigate risk, delegate, collaborate, and complete tasks and projects on time and on budget with one of the market’s top project management tools:<\/p>\n\t

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Techopedia Explains Project Management<\/span><\/h2>\n

Effective project management requires controlled scope and resource focus, according to organizational requirements.<\/p>\n

All projects follow the stages below:<\/p>\n

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  • Definition: What is the project?<\/li>\n
  • Planning: What activities or tasks are required for successful project completion and implementation?<\/li>\n
  • Execution: The project is developed and launched according to plan.<\/li>\n
  • Control: Project progress is tracked and managed.<\/li>\n
  • Closure: The finished project is closed, followed by final analysis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The science and practice of project management developed into a discipline in the late 18th century. In the early 1900s, Henry Gantt – a project management forefather – developed the Gantt chart for the tracking of scheduled projects. By the 1950s, the engineering industry and the military recognized project management as a key scientific discipline.<\/p>\n

    Today, project management is a given. Businesses rely on collaborative software and Web-based cloud solutions, such as Basecamp. A well-known IT and cloud governance solution is CA Clarity Project and Portfolio Management (CA Clarity PPM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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