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Project Management Tutorial  The Project Management Lifecycle What Is A Project? A project is a series of events that must take place in order for something to be accomplished.  It consists of tasks with timelines that can have dependencies on other tasks.  It has a definite start and a definite end. The Project Management Lifecycle There are five phases that comprise the Project Management Lifecycle. Initiation Planning Executing Monitoring and Controlling Closeout The Role of the Project Manager Gather Requirements. Organize the team Create tasks and Schedule  Monitor the project providing guidance where needed Motivate the team Manage the Budget Manage the Risk(s) Setting Up For Success The Meaning Of Success This can be defined differently for each project. Sometimes it's all about getting the work done to meet specific price objectives. Sometimes the schedule is the most important driver to define success. Other times it can be meeting a specific set of features...

 Project Management Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash Learning About Project Management Project Management has become more and more popular as a thought framework in recent years.  It can be attributed to our world's pace of change, pandemics like COVID, and also the many needs organizations now have to become more efficient.   Sometimes events take place to make us change how we look at the world.  But, more often, it seems we learn new ways to think and adapt at just exactly the right time we need to implement them.  Ideas like Project Management as a body of knowledge have their own life cycle, just as any thought framework which can help us organize knowledge in a world hungry to understand itself. This blog is new - meaning I'm starting today.  I have spent the last 30 years learning, practicing, re-learning, correcting myself and others in the discipline of project management.  I've joined the ranks of serious practitioners who are also ce...