Project Management principles: Their importance in delivering value and high productivity within resource constraints.

Published in The Chronicle Newspaper of 2013 on the productivity column.The year 2013 has started and it is the time when many organizations look at their planned projects for implementation, continuation or completion. There is also the other side where after a break for the year-end holidays, workers go back to their continuing projects. This is not withstanding that there are some projects that never get completed. As such the author would like to highlight some basics of Project Management. These are encompassed in principles that increase the chances of project completion with available resource constraints. Projects should be managed properly so as to reduce wastage of resources. This article is aimed at highlighting the general principles of project management that can enhance increased value and productivity in project type of work