What is Project Management?

Project Management job (proj-ekt man-ij-muh-nt) The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.

But most of all

Project management is about people getting things done.

Dr Martin Barnes, APM president.

So what is project management?

The project management breakdown

It is used in many industries and verticals

IT project management
is expected to grow by

17%
Through

2018

Most of the time it pays well

But project management Is not all roses

The cost of bad project management?

Can be high

A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers found:

Out of 10,640 projects

from 200 companies in 30 countries

Thats really low!

is

15% to 25%

Thats a loss of

$50 billion to $150 billion

per year in the

United States

2011 CHAOS report: 37% of all projects:

2011 CHAOS report: 42% of all projects:

2011 CHAOS report: 21% of all projects:

Reasons for project failure

54%

21%
14% 8% 3% - IBM

YIKES!

So, what do you need to succeed?

Knowledge

Skills

Tools
(thats us)

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