Sandip Panat Global Head - Project Management Center of Excellence, Geometric Ltd.A Project Manager (or PM) often gets dragged into the 'urgent and important' issues and tends to lose sight of the key aspects of Project Management. I have seen managers taking up complex Project management tasks, but often floundering on the fundamentals - probably as they get into the grind, they stop doing the obvious. I feel the following points are the fundamentals of managing projects, which the practicing PM should never lose track of.