The proposed premise of this document is that an organization that systematically applies project management methodologies can ensure that donor, organizational, and beneficiary resources are used in the most efficient, and effective manner; which help increase the chances to meet its development objectives.

A Project Information Management System (PIMS) is the systematic process of creating, identifying, collecting, organizing, sharing, adapting, and using project information. Information management is a process for identifying all the information the project stakeholders need to make informed decisions. This book introduces the concept that project information is a strategic resource that must be managed with the same rigor as financial and physical resources.

Organizational Project Management (OPM) is defined as the execution of an organization's strategies through projects by combining the systems of portfolio management, program management, and project management. OPM is based on the idea that there is a correlation between an organization’s capabilities in project, program, and portfolio management, and the organization’s effectiveness in implementing its strategy.

Team management deals with the processes of developing and tracking team member performance, providing feedback, resolving issues, and managing team changes to optimize project performance. The key benefit of this process is that it influences team behavior, manages conflict, resolves issues, and appraises team member performance.

Project Budget Management is a set of processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget. This is the area that receives a lot of scrutiny during and after the project is completed. The project’s ability to manage the financial resources obtained by the organization will be a measure of the organizations probity, not only in compliance with donor’s requirements but also a measure of its efficiency.

A complete glossary of project management terms and  definitions

Quality Management is the process to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs of the beneficiaries. Quality is defined as a commitment to deliver the project outputs and meet the expectations of the beneficiaries, which means that quality is ultimately defined by the beneficiary. Quality is ensuring the project outputs are relevant to the needs and that they are adequate to the conditions in which they have to be used.

Risk management deals with the processes to identify, analyze and respond to risk throughout the project life cycle, with the goal to ensure the project will be able to reach its objectives. Risk management also helps the project by determining the right scope, making realistic schedules and better cost estimates that take in account provisions to respond to risk events.

Schedule Management is the process includes the actions required to ensure the timely completion of the project. It includes the development of a schedule that contains all project activities, the project schedule is a communications tool that informs project stakeholders the status of the project and gives project team members information, in the form of graphs and charts, as to when each activity must begin and end.

Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required to complete the project successfully. Project scope management’s primary concern is with defining and controlling what is and is not included in the project. Scope is the description of the boundaries of the project and helps define the expectations of what the project will achieve.

One of the mistakes development organizations make is appointing a project manager only for the depth of her technical skills. It is not unusual to find a good engineer being promoted to project manager just for her technical competence. While it is true that one must have a good understanding of the technical aspects of the project, the principal areas of competence that are required in the management competence areas and these include communicating; planning, negotiating, coaching, decision-making, and leadership.

Project Information Management is a process that defines the actions and responsibilities to manage project information. The process includes all the steps, from collecting, analyzing, storing, reporting and evaluating the information management cycle. It is an essential process to ensure the right information reaches the right people at the right time.

The Project Management Cycle, This ebook introduces the process of managing a project using a cyclical approach. The development project management cycle consists of six phases; initiating, planning, implementing, monitoring, adapting and closing. It's an integrated approach that provides for a continuous management cycle that includes learning through all the phases.

This ebook presents the various structures to organize project management and the advantages and disadvantages of each one. The ebook also discuses the various management styles that influence the organization of a project; it also presents the concepts on the organization's overall governance process for sharing decisions rights for monitoring the performance of project interventions.

The Project Management Processes. This book presents the nine management processes required to manage a project. Includes the four processes to manage the project constrains of scope, schedule, budget and quality and five additional supporting processes to manage the team, stakeholders, information, risk and contracts.