Understanding Project Management

by Mike Watson

Project management is an organization and resource management methodology that has developed over multiple centuries and has been reinvented with the last 75 years with the positive technological gains that are constantly being made internationally. Henry Gantt, a mechanical engineer and management consultant within the United States during the early 1900s, often receives honors and credit for modern project management. Gantt produced a chart that allowed individuals within a project to view progression, a schedule that established each stage in the project, and showcases how much work was left before project completion. Technological advances in industries such as computers have significantly impacted the way project management is viewed. The following paper will define a project, discern each project life cycle stage, and show how project management is used to accomplish tasks.

8 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 22, 2011

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I work in product and build apps as a hobby.

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