This document provides an overview of fundamentals of project planning and management. It defines what projects are, common traits of projects, objectives of projects, why projects fail, the typical project life cycle including initiation, planning, execution phases, and approaches to project management including traditional critical path methodology and more modern agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban. Key points covered include defining projects, similarities across projects, objectives of scope, time and cost, common reasons for project failure, and benefits of agile project management approaches.