TABLE OF CONTENTS 
Successful project management goes beyond coordinating people and groups; it involves defining the goals and work they must accomplish, then providing leadership and direction to ensure the work gets done. Overall project goals need to be articulated into shorter term objectives with carefully plotted plans, schedules, and budgets to accomplish them. Controls are then needed to make sure plans and schedules are carried out as intended.
Over the years an impressive collection of methods has been developed to help project managers collect and use information for defining and directing work. The next eight chapters describe these methods, including techniques and procedures for specifying, scheduling, and budgeting project activities, organizing and keeping records, and monitoring and controlling work to achieve project goals.
Procedures are best conducted within the framework of a system to ensure that all elements are accounted for, properly organized, and executed. The so-called Project Management System and the various structures, activities, and frameworks that comprise it work breakdown structures, cost accounting systems, management information systems, and many others are also described in this section.
