Project Management requires the organisation of people, equipment and procedures in an appropriate

way to get a project completed within a set timeframe and budget. A Project Manager is responsible for
the coordination of all these resources in order to achieve the project objective

Project management techniques are used by organisations because they ensure that organisational
objectives and system objectives are being met in a timely, accurate, relevant and complete manner.
They provide a way of controlling people, resources and procedures, and clearly identify the tasks that
must be completed and the desired completion time

Project Management is not a new concept. Even in the time of the Ancient Egyptians a form of project
management was needed to coordinate the construction of the great pyramids. Modern project
management tools were, however, not developed until the early 1900s with the creation of
the GANTT chart method. Further refinement in project management tools came about in the 1950s with
the development of the Critical Path Method (CPM) and Program Evaluation and Review Technique
(PERT). These three tools form the basis for documenting and managing the progress of projects. All of
these tools produce graphical representations of projects, and all current project management software
includes these components.