Project management is the discipline of defining and achieving targets while optimizing (or just allocating) the use of resources (time, money, people, materials, energy, space, provisions, communication, etc.) over the course of a project (a set of activities of finite duration).

Project Management is quite often the province and responsibility of an individual project manager. The Project Manager (PM) strives to maintain the progress and productive mutual interaction of various parties in such a way that overall risk of failure is reduced.

In order to meet OMB requirements, all IT PM’s, as identified in DOE’s Capital Planning Program (A-11, Exhibit 53's and Exhibit 300’s), must be qualified.  The IT Project Management Qualification Process has been developed to provide the framework for CIO certification.  Per OMB Guidelines, the IT PM Qualification process is aligned with the Federal CIO Council's Guidelines for Federal IT Project Managers.