Chapter 3: Understanding Project Management Tasks

Overview

Now that you’re familiar with the basics of project management, it’s time to address the tasks involved in a typical project. By this we mean everything you, as a project manager, have to do to create and implement the project at hand. In this chapter we’ll cover the following topics:

• Monitoring project progress

• Tracking and analyzing project variances

• Managing project schedules

• Managing resources

• Managing costs

• Managing project scope

• Project reporting