Most people have one. Yet attending to their demands and idiosyncrasies can be nerve-wracking. Wise people engage good boss management strategies.
As both an active project manager and a project management trainer, people often ask me what are the fundamental aspects to successful project management. Whilst there have been many great books written on the subject, I always summarise what I believe to be the best practices at the heart of good project management.
Define the scope [...]
Although sometimes it seems that projects take on a life of their own, the simple fact is that projects don’t manage themselves. It takes the energy and commitment of a number of people to take a project from the initial idea through inception. As more companies embrace the concept of self-directed work-teams that work on [...]
Project management is quite often the province and responsibility of an individual project manager.
This individual seldom participates directly in the activities that
produce the end result, but rather strives to maintain the progress and
productive mutual interaction of various parties in such a way that
overall risk of failure is reduced.
As a discipline, project management developed from different fields of application including construction, engineering, and defense.