Those of you with a keen sense of language will realise that the phrase “project management” is made up of two words - “project” and “management”. This is hardly a groundbreaking discovery, but it’s surprising how easy it is to forget there are 2 components to the phrase, both of which requiring their own focus and attention.
To start with, we’ll define the word “project”. A dictionary definition is “a plan, a scheme”, or “a planned undertaking”. This seems fine, and covers pretty much everything that you might describe as an actual project for a business or organisation. Usually, you might add in such parameters as “time bound” and “within budget”, but this may not be essential depending on the actual project itself.
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