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.