Call me silly, but I am surprised that project management is basically the same thing as software engineering which I learned back in college. It is so far the most boring course I've ever taken. It's all about methodology to gradually achieve a massive software development project. You can take either the spiral or waterfall approach, or even the rapid development approach with quick prototyping. I didn't understand all the different approach because of lack of hands-on experience. However, they start to make sense after I work in the field of BD and project management (and after I start to read DILBERT, hehe). It is so very odd, the thing called understanding: Though the professor explain it in full, I only have a vague feeling about what it is; the idea isn't formed until I participate the whole process from beginning to end. Yet still I am incapable of expressing all I understand in words. It is simply ineffable! How could it be? There must be a better way to transcribe understanding to make others understand easily. We just don't know it.