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Project Management

The purpose of Project Management is:

To provide a framework for managing software-intensive projects.
To provide practical guidelines for planning, staffing, executing, and monitoring projects.
To provide a framework for managing risk.

This discipline is related to, but does not include, the following:

Managing people: hiring, training, coaching
Managing budget: defining, allocating, and so forth
Managing contracts, with suppliers and customers

This discipline focuses mainly on the important aspects of an iterative development process:

Risk management
Planning an iterative project, through the lifecycle and for a particular iteration
Monitoring progress of an iterative project, metrics

Relation to Other Disciplines

The Project Management Discipline provides the framework whereby a project is created and managed. In doing so, all other disciplines are utilized as part of the project work.

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