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.
Content
Victor Kane (ProjectMaster) and awebfactory.com.ar