Project Management is a structured method for achieving someone's dreams and objectives, or translating dreams to reality. This involves the marshalling of resources to produce a specified set of results within a definite time-span.
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A project (dream) can be any of the following examples:
- Winning the Stanley Cup
- Send a man to space
- Hold a party
- Finish a University degree
- Win an Olympic Medal
- Build a museum or a bridge
- Build a skyscraper or an airport
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Civil Engineers are well suited and trained to become the Project Manager. A Project Manager is a person held responsible for the planning, implementing and controlling the direction of a project.
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The Project Manager will plan, organize, control, and lead:
- a team of individuals in the production of a specified set of deliverables
- in the achievement of a specified set of goals
- within a definite period of time
- achieving a quality level acceptable to the beneficiaries and other stakeholders
- in spite of a scarcity of resources
- in spite of an assortment of constraints including the absence of formal authority
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