Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific engineering project goals and objectives. 

The Importance of Projects
A key challenge for organisations in today's world is to succeed in balancing two parallel, competing imperatives:

• To maintain current business operations - profitability, service quality, customer relationships, brand loyalty, productivity, market confidence etc. What we term 'business as usual'.
• To transform business operations in order to survive and compete in the future - looking forward and deciding how business change can be introduced to best effect for the organisation. As the pace of change (technology, business, social, regulatory etc.) accelerates, and the penalties of failing to adapt to change become more evident, the focus of management attention is inevitably moving to achieve a balance between business as usual and business change.

Projects are the means by which we introduce change. As Darwin already said "Change is the only constant".