Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques applied to project activities in order to meet the project requirements. Project management is a process that includes planning, putting the project plan into action, and measuring progress and performance.
Project management is the process of coordinating a team and its resources to successfully execute a specific task from start to finish. It includes planning the activities, measuring the progress, allocating resources, identifying constraints and completing the task while respecting those constraints.
A huge part of “coordinating” in project management is communication. Most project managers struggle with this because they underestimate how important (and difficult) it is to communicate the right information to the right people at the right time.
People are at the core of project management. The sole purpose of project management is the successful completion of the project by facilitating people’s work.
Thus, the project manager isn’t responsible for the completion of the project. He is responsible for the people who are going to complete the project. This is a distinction that separates the great from the good project managers.