What is Project Management ?

A Project Management is is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.(PMBOK 5th edition)

A project manager must always strive to meet the spesific scope, time, cost,quality of the projects and also fullfil the expectations of people involved in the projects and also people that affected by it.

Figure 1.1 Project Management Framework

Project Management Tools and Techniques

Project management tools and techniques assist project manager to manage the projects more easily. The popular example is gantt chart.

There is 10 "super-tool" that help project management by knowledge area:

That is brief explanation of project management.