The Importance of Project Management in IT Projects
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This article begins by discussing the timeliness, uniqueness, and unpredictability of IT projects and introduces the concept of project management, which is defined as the process of conceiving, planning, monitoring, and executing projects in a way that achieves the benefits intended, The article also introduces the concept of project management, defining it as the process of conceiving, planning, monitoring, managing, and executing projects in a way that achieves the benefits intended. The importance of the concept of project management in the IT industry is also discussed from three perspectives: time, cost and quality. The results of the analysis show that good project management can help an IT company to reduce the time spent on a project, reduce the budget, ensure the quality of the product and achieve more value.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/mmf.v6i3.4499
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