Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Principles of Project Management

When we think of the princples of management we usually associate them with the management of people . the management of people includes defining what the business unit will do, planning for the number and type of staff who will do it, organizing the staff, monitoring their performance of the task assigned them, and finally bringing a close to their efforts. Those some principles also apply to projects

Project management is method and a set of techniques based on the accepted principles of management used for , planning, estimating, and controlling work activities to reach a desired end result on time - within budget and according to specification.. (Effective Project management, by Robert K. Wysocki, Robert Beck Jr, Dvid B. Crane )