For Chateau this means the discipline of planning, organizing, securing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.

The primary challenge for chateau is to achieve all of the project goals and objectives while honoring the preconceived project constraints. Typical constraints are scope, time, and budget . The secondary, and more ambitious challenge is to optimize the allocation and integration of inputs necessary to meet pre-defined objectives.

A project manager is often a client representative and has to determine and implement the exact needs of the client, based on knowledge of the client they are representing. The ability to adapt to the various internal procedures of the contracting party, and to form close links with the nominated representatives, is essential in ensuring that the key issues of cost, time, quality and above all, client satisfaction, can be realized.