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Concept
Outline of project management
Summary
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to project management:
Project management – discipline of planning, organizing, securing, managing, leading, and controlling resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end (usually time-constrained, and often constrained by funding or deliverables), undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value. The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with ongoing business operations.
Project management can be described as all of the following:
Management – in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal.
Management process – is a process of planning and controlling the performance or execution of any type of activity.
Process – ongoing collection of activities, with inputs, outputs and the energy required to transform inputs to outputs.
Project – A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.
Project portfolio management
Program management
Project risk management
Project workforce management
Construction project management concepts
Construction – in the fields of architecture and civil engineering, is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of multitasking. Normally the job is managed by the project manager and supervised by the construction manager, design engineer, construction engineer or project architect.
Construction management
Architectural engineering
Virtual design and construction – (VDC) is the use of integrated multi-disciplinary performance models of design-construction projects, including the Product (i.e.
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