1. What is Project Management?

Whether it involves producing goods or delivering services, a ‘project’ tends to have a beginning, middle and end – even if these have been artificially created to make the activities clearer in purpose or more manageable. As such they tend to focus on ‘delivering’ a specific service or product, or group of related services / products, which result in a defined end point.

There are a number of different approaches to managing projects. Which approach an organisation chooses mainly depends on their preferred style and how they think they can best manage that particular project (and any expected problems).

We have tried to keep the toolkit as simple as possible, and present below a model that we think covers the key areas that you will need to work through to develop a comprehensive project plan.

This page is a summary of the information contained in the full online toolkit.