For many businesses and organizations, project management has received a lot of renewed focus in recent years. One reason for this is that analytics and data-driven approaches have become a high ...

The goal of project management is to help a team achieve a goal or solve a problem with a set deadline. The project manager owns responsibility for the team hitting its deadline and meeting the goal.

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