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Down-to-Earth Project Management for Beginners

Getting things done in your future life -
Tips for organizing tasks you’ve never done before.

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As you move forward in life to new situations or increased responsibilities, you will almost certainly face challenges where you want to do something, either for yourself or at work, where the new task is something that you have never done before and perhaps also:    

  • needs work or assistance from multiple people,

  • must satisfy other people beside yourself,

  • has higher levels of complexity and responsibility since the work involves more people, more money, and more details.


A new situation like this can be scary when you recognize that this is something so new that you don’t know what to do.  Where should you begin?  The good news is that as human civilization has evolved, some insightful people have recognized that there are typical patterns for organizing or coordinating the activity to complete an unfamiliar task that may also be large or complex.  This knowledge has been organized into a collection of principles, methods, and techniques as a field of study known as Project Management.  

The purpose of this paper is to provide a non-technical description of project management for the beginner. It will present some elementary concepts in general, non-technical language - concepts you can use to organize and execute projects - while also providing a useful introduction for those readers who go on to further studies of the field of project management. The target audience is individuals at the high-school, college, or early career levels of experience who have not yet begun a serious study of the field of project management.  
 

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