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Project management is the discipline of defining and achieving a set of goals while optimizing the use of allocated resources (time, money, people, space, etc). This includes planning, scheduling and maintaining progress of the activities that comprise the project. Project management is normally reserved for focused, non-repetitive, time-limited activities with some degree of risk and that are beyond the usual scope of program (operational) activities for which the organization is responsible.

Project management software describes the tools to efficiently coordinate and automate the various project management component processes. Project management software generally offers extensive reporting features, such as day-to-day status updates of project progress, scheduling and dependency trees, and system-generated alerts when schedules slip beyond pre-set tolerances. Most project management tools include web-accessible interfaces so that employees can access features of the software relevant to their needs, and functionality to allow managers to share resource pools without overbooking.