ABSTRACT
Project management as a discipline has been around since the 1950s and is concerned with initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing the work of a team to deliver on specific goals or outcomes within required constraints. This is usually in a context of a changing internal and external business environment that continually threatens the achievement of goals and outcomes and the adherence to required constraints. Project management can be used to realise deliberate strategy by translating strategic objectives into specific projects or groups of projects and then using one or more project management processes to deliver those projects. Delivery of the projects results in realisation of strategic objectives, assuming that the strategic objectives were translated into the correct projects. Project management can also be used to realise emergent strategy, as employees can form their own autonomous initiatives and use one or more project management processes to realise these initiatives.
