ABSTRACT
Projects and the means for managing them are hardly new, as the wonders of the ancient world testify. The purpose of project management is to plan, organize, control all activity so that the project is completed as successfully as possible in spite of all the difficulties, risks. Today’s project manager has ready access to a wider than ever range of cost-effective tools for planning and controlling a project. The most successful manager will be capable of choosing and using the techniques that best suit the particular project. A management project for the relocation of a company should see a contented workforce at their desks in the new buildings on the appointed day, with all the goods and chattels delivered without loss or damage to the right places, all company systems operational. The ‘fixed’ or ‘overhead’ costs of management are directly time-related: they are incurred day by day, every day, regardless of any work actually achieved, until the project is finished.
