What is project management? What are its characteristics?

According to the definition of PMI, project management refers to "applying a series of knowledge, skills, tools and technologies in project activities to meet or exceed the requirements of relevant stakeholders for the project".

China Project Management Research Committee summarized the project management as follows: the word "project management" has two different meanings, one is a management activity; The second refers to a management discipline, the former is an objective practical activity, and the latter is a theoretical summary of the former; The former is guided by the latter and the latter is based on the former.

Project management runs through the whole project life cycle and is the whole process management of the project.

Characteristics of project management:

The object of project management is the project. The idea of system engineering runs through the whole process of project management. Organization of project management: it has certain particularity. The project management system is a personal responsibility system based on team management, and the project manager is the key to the coordination and control of the whole project team. The key point of project management is to create and maintain an environment for the smooth progress of the project, so that people in this environment can coordinate their work in the collective and complete the predetermined goals. The methods, tools and technical means of project management are advanced.