ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at The Everyday Project Manager—a person tasked with a single project to deliver and looking to understand the principles and techniques of project management to enable them to deliver successfully. It is worth distinguishing between projects, programs, and portfolios. The distinction has to do with the number of projects and their relation to one another. A project is a single, cohesive set of tasks that delivers an end result. It will produce a deliverable, or set of deliverables, so projects are said to create outputs. Agile project management is a more recent addition to the landscape. Used primarily in software development, it uses cycles of activity to gradually refine a solution. Agile is used when — at the outset of the project—one might not have a clear idea of the final state. When considering the everyday projects that many of us will come into contact with, the vast majority are likely to follow a waterfall methodology.
