<aside> 💡 The Foundation of Project Managagment by Google Course link

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The Beginning

What is a project?

A project is a series of tasks that need to be completed to reach a desired outcome in a defined beginning and an end.

What is PM?

The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet the project requirements and achieve the desired outcome. The process takes planning and collaboration to keeps the project on track and on budget.

A PM is someone who manages the tasks of a project, he’s not often the direct manager of the people working on a project team. Rather, responsible for guiding others and ensuring the support they need to complete the project.

Responsibilities of a PM:

1. **Planning and organizing (**Understanding what the poject is trying to accomplish)

Make use of productivity tools and develop processes to improve information sharing across the team create plans, timelines, schedules, and other forms of documentation to track project completion

1. Managing tasks

Keep track of tasks to help manage team’s workloads and track and demonstrate progress

1. Budgeting + controling costs and other factor

→ Monitor budget

→ Track issues and risks

→ Manage quality by mitigating those issues

→ Remove unforeseen barriers (things that get in the way of progress)