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What is the Project Life Cycle?

Projects drift when nobody agrees where they stand. Learn the project management skill that takes a project from idea to done.

Andrea Mitev

You’re probably already running projects, even if project manager isn’t in your title. It might be the ticketing system replacement, a network refresh, or the office move that somehow ended up on your desk. What usually separates a project that lands on schedule from one that lingers for months is knowing where it stands and what comes next, and that’s what the project life cycle gives you.

Keep reading to see each phase play out in a real-world project. Then start the free first skill in the CompTIA Project+ course to nail down the framework in under an hour, no account required.

Start This Skill for Free: Project+ Basic Concepts