What does "project management" mean?

The discipline of organizing and managing resources (e.g. people) in such a way that a project is completed within defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints.

Project management

Q: What is a synonym for "project management"?

Common synonyms include: infrastructure engineering, most project organization, pm techniques, project administration, project control, project governance.

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Noun

1
The discipline of organizing and managing resources (e.g. people) in such a way that a project is completed within defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints. uncountable
2
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see project, management. uncountable

Synonyms

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infrastructure engineering most project organization pm techniques project administration project control project governance

Antonyms

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chaos mismanagement unplanned execution unstructured progress

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