Chapter 1: Introduction to Project Management
Introduction to Project Management: Chapter Objectives Chapter Objectives After completing this chapter, you should be able to: Define a project in your own words, using characteristics that are common to most projects, and describe reasons why more organizations are using project management. Describe major activities and deliverables at each project life cycle stage. List and define the ten knowledge areas and five process groups of the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK ® ). Delineate measures of project success and failure, and reasons for both. Contrast predictive or plan-driven and adaptive or change-driven project life cycle approaches. Identify project roles and distinguish key responsibilities for each. Introduction to Project Management: Chapter Overview © Pressmaster/Shutterstock.com View PDF I have returned from a successful climb of Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina; at 22,841 feet, it is the highest peak in the world outside of the ...