LibGuides: Project Management: Home

UCSD-Specific PM links

ACT Project Management Office
consults with campus stakeholders on projects
Extention's PM Certificate Program
UCSD's Extension Program offers individual classes as well as a coordinated program of classes for certificate.
Library's Project Management Blog
A Library group interested in PM posts for anyone interested about resources and other useful information.
Rady School of Management's PM courses
The RSOM Executive Education program frequently runs half-day courses introducing PM concepts for beginning project managers or those who supervise them.
UC Learning Center's PM classes
There are over 200 courses offered online, and many of them touch on aspects of PM ranging from introduction, to working with Project software, to Six Sigma and more.

What is Project Management?

Project management,

according to Claude Maley,

"...is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives....The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals and objectives while honoring the established and agreed-upon project constraints. Typical constraints are scope, time, and budget."

(p. 2, Project Management Concepts, Methods, and Techniques).

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