Project management can be defined as the planning, monitoring and control of all aspects of a project and the motivation of all those involved in it, in order to achieve the project objectives within agreed criteria of time, cost and performance. To achieve this, a number of methods, procedures and techniques have been developed, which together with the general management and people skills, enable the project manager to meet the set criteria of time cost and performance/quality in the most effective way. The project manager is the individual who has the responsibility, authority and accountability assigned to him or her to achieve safely the project objectives within agreed time, cost and performance/quality criteria.
