{"id":18735,"date":"2021-03-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/what-is-project-management\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:27:29","slug":"what-is-project-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/what-is-project-management\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Project Management?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On the business landscape, perhaps no other concept has undergone as much change and evolution in recent years as project management. Indeed, with so many organizations \u2013 from small firms to large enterprises \u2013 running multiple projects these days, the question \u201cwhat is project management<\/strong>?\u201d might be better phrased as \u201cwhat isn\u2019t project management?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Still, despite the prevalence of work management<\/a> as a framework for everything from launching a small training course to leading an enterprise-wide digital transformation, there are some core fundamental principles that distinguish work management from other approaches to achieving business objectives.<\/p>\n

Defining Project Management<\/b><\/h2>\n

A classic answer to \u201cwhat is project management<\/strong>?\u201d is provided by the Project Management Institute<\/a> (PMI), which refers to it as a combination of knowledge, skills, tools, resources and techniques<\/strong> that are applied through progressive elaboration<\/strong> as part of a temporary endeavor<\/strong>, in order to create a unique product, service or result<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

To clarify and simplify things, we can unpack this by looking at each of the elements that are bolded<\/strong> in the definition above.<\/p>\n

Element #1:<\/strong> Project management is a combination of knowledge, skills, tools, resources and techniques.<\/p>\n

Effective, sustainable and successful project handling requires a mix of capacities and competencies, including (but not limited to):<\/p>\n