Welcome to the project management page

The course's primary objective is to list and explain the key concepts related to project management and describe important benefits related to projects as well as the formal study of project management.

The course provides an overview of project management, defining both projects and project

management and exploring the difference between project management and operations management.

Projects do not live in a vacuum. They are affected by many factors including constraints, assumptions, and internal and external factors (referred to as Enterprise Environmental Factors – EEFs

Projects start their life by developing the project’s foundations, continue with planning all the knowledge areas, executing all the activities, and producing the outcomes, and end by reaching a close-out by archiving all the documents, completing all administrative works,

and disbanding the team. This is the life cycle of a project, which makes it temporary and unique.

Organizations exist to fulfill a purpose. These purposes are analyzed through a process and ultimately expressed in an organization’s vision and mission statements. Vision statements are often very broad and they describe what the organizational leaders want the organization to accomplish. Mission statements are more specific: they describe how the organization is going to fulfill its vision.