What Type of Thing Is Project Management?
Project management can be described as all of the following:
- Management – in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal.
- Management process – is a process of planning and controlling the performance or execution of any type of activity.
- Process – ongoing collection of activities, with an inputs, outputs and the energy required to transform inputs to outputs.
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