All projects are temporary and therefore have a life cycle with a beginning, a middle, and an end. Because you are working on projects, or will be very soon, you know that nothing about project management is very linear. Even though we are looking at a waterfall-type predictive project, meaning we can predict the result, that doesn't mean that it is a true step-by-step process from beginning to end. Project management is, for lack of a better word, messy. There are all sorts of things going on at once. Hence, a life cycle.
In a guide such as this, it would be difficult for myself or anyone else to say, This is exactly how you run a project, and in this order. You might be thinking, Wait… what? I thought that is exactly what you were going to do. In this case, you would be overestimating my project-management powers because all projects...