What may be the difference and why is it important.

Project Management is the art of keeping an overview of all the things going on in a project. Project Managers are there to keep everybody on their toes and on schedule to keep the whole project running smoothly. Milestones and budgets and timelines are only some of  the things needing supervision. We are talking Daily's, Weekly's and agile management here in most cases. Everything to keep everybody working in line and together.

Project management is needed when the following points are critical:
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- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Deadlines
- Limited Resources

Why do it:
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- Completing projects on time and within budget
- Delivering high-quality results
- Ensuring stakeholder satisfaction
- Optimizing resource allocation
- Managing risks effectively
- Improving communication and collaboration

All the above are important, but who is having a look at the larger scale and is managing that all the projets are running smoothly, are scheduled and are staffed, while still knowing that every resource aka employee is equally much utilized and not overflowing with work, being educated along the way and takes enough time off to balance the workload.

Mostly the answer is nobody and even if so there are not really tools available to do so on a bigger scale than Outlook-Calendars. Maybe your projects are small enough that they don’t need project management but you got a lot of them. Then managing projects becomes important again. People's daily meetings become less important so that you can focus on the big picture and see who is doing what, and when.

Then your tasks will be:
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- Workload Management
- Knowing and assigning people with the right skill to projects
- Findings the next available timeslot for a project
- See that everything gets staffed and doesn't fall through the cracks.


Be the manager for your business, not your busywork!