2.1 Project management2.1.1 Project management history2.1.2 Project management definition2.1.3 Project management importance2.1.4 Project management standard2.1.5 Project management code of ethics2.2 Projects versus programs versus portfolio2.2.1 What is a project?2.2.2 What is a program?2.2.3 What is a portfolio?2.2.4 Portfolios versus programs versus projects2.3 Projects’ operational environments2.3.1 Projects’ operational environmental influencing factors2.3.2 Enterprise environmental factors (EEFs)2.3.3 Organizational process assets factors (OPAFs)2.3.4 Organizational systems-related factors (OSFs)2.3.5 Organizational governance frameworks-related factors (OGFFs)2.4 Project managers and leadership2.4.1 The roles of project managers, functional managers, and operational managers2.4.2 The PMI’s project managers’ Talent Triangle2.4.3 A generic classification of the software project managers’ essential skills2.4.4 The author’s classification of the software project managers’ essential skills2.4.5 Project managers’ circles of influence2.4.6 Project managers’ leadership styles2.4.7 Generic characteristics of the project managers’ personalities2.5 Request for proposals (RFPs)2.5.1 A generic structure of an RFP document2.5.2 Other forms of requests2.6 Project charters2.7 The author’s view of the software project management phases and their processes2.7.1 The initiation phase and its processes2.7.2 The planning phase and its processes2.7.3 The execution phase and its processes2.7.4 The monitoring and control phase and its processes2.7.5 The closure phase and its processes2.8 Contracts2.8.1 Types of contracts2.8.2 Contract management phases2.9 The author’s simplified change management process2.10 The author’s simplified risk management process2.11 Project management approaches2.11.1 Phase-based project management (PBPM)2.11.2 Lean-based project management (LBPM)2.11.3 Iterative-and-incremental-based project management (IIBPM)2.11.4 Critical-chain-based project management (CCBPM)2.11.5 Product-and-production-based project management (PPBPM)2.12 Projects’ SUCCESS2.12.1 The four pillars for project management2.12.2 The four Ps for project management2.12.3 Projects’ SUCCESS factors2.12.4 Best practices, de factos, and software standards2.13 The author’s simplified model for the project core action plan2.13.1 The simplified model2.13.2 A simplified formula for the project duration2.13.3 A simplified formula for resource allocations and costing