project
a group of milestones or phases that support an effort to accomplish something
management
process of planning, organizing, controlling, and measuring
triple constraint
time, cost, scope
project success
project efficiency, impact on customer, business impact on organization, new opportunities
major characteristics of project
importance, scope, life cycle with finite due date, interdependencies, uniqueness, resources, conflict
negatives of PM
greater organizational complexity, conflict, says managers cannot accomplish the desired outcome