BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Project
- a set of activities designed to achieve a specified goal, within a given period of time. Projects focus on activities outside the routine operations of an organization. They vary immensely in size, scope, and complexity; and often involve drawing together resources from different parts of an organization for the duration of the project. The process of planning and completing projects is known as project management.
Wiktionary Definition for: Project
- A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
- # US An urban low-income housing building.
- #To extend beyond a surface.
- #To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface.
- #To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
- #To make plans for; to forecast.
- Ex:* The CEO is '''projecting''' the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
- #project (''planned endeavo(u)r'')
Additional Resources
- Keeping On Top of Project Management
- A project can be an awkward beast to manage. Because the purpose of a project is to bring about change, the context is often unsettled and uncertain. As a result, unexpected issues tend to crop up—changes occur and mistakes are made. An effective project manager must accept that the unexpected...
- Articles 2007-10-08
- Working Effectively with Project Sponsors and Stakeholders
- It's all too easy, when you manage a project, to become so involved with your team and the work at hand that you overlook a very important group of people: your sponsor and stakeholders—in other words, the people who have an investment or interest in the project's outcome but who...
- Articles 2007-04-20
- $23m blowout in NSW licensing project
- Fran Foo | October 07, 2009A MAJOR government IT project in NSW that commenced eight years ago will cost taxpayers an additional $23 million due to chronic communication breakdowns.The project, originally due for completion in 2005, has not even passed the halfway mark and is set to deliver $50m less...
- News items 2009-10-07
- NSW Government Licensing Project slammed by Auditor General
- NSW's Government Licensing Project GLP aimed at centralising software licences is nine years late and $23 million over budget according to the state's auditor general's office. In a report into the state of the project, the auditor said the project is both unlikely to be finished until 2014 and is...
- News items 2009-10-08
- How To Create A Clear Project Plan
- One of the critical factors for project success is having a well-developed project plan. Unfortunately, the "project plan" is one of the most misunderstood terms in project management. Hardly a fixed object, the project plan is a set of living documents that can be expected to change over the life...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Create A New Project From An Existing Project Or Database
- You may find it helpful to base a new project on an existing Microsoft Office Project MPP file or a Microsoft Office Project Database MPD file. When basing a new project on an existing project file, the existing file must be closed. If you are basing your new project on...
- White papers
- Lessons From the Manhattan Project
- One of the most controversial collaborative efforts in history, The Manhattan Project has been the subject of well over a dozen books, including Richard Rhodes' Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb as well as Now It Can Be Told, written by General Leslie Groves, who oversaw the project. This...
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Techniques for Project Initiation II
- This paper discusses about the various project initiation techniques. Like the first one is developing a project strategy. After the project manager has outlined the objectives and considered the constraints for the project, it's time to initiate the development of the project strategy. A project strategy is simply how the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Project Management Basics: How To Manage A Troubled Project
- The way to manage a project out of difficulties is firstly to identify what went wrong the project and to put in place processes to prevent that recurring. This may mean involve moving some people off of the project. The project manager needs to take stock of the progress made...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- How Three Project Managers Stayed on Track
- Managing near-disasters is part of the job. Here?s how three determined team leaders saved projects that had gone off the rails. Colorado State Patrol The goal: Coordinate law enforcement services with the Denver Police Department, the...
- Articles 2009-10-27
- Marine generator project to estimate renewable energy yields
- Friday 30 October 2009 An £8 million project to develop software which can estimate the average annual energy production of a wave or tidal farm has been approved in the hope of encouraging investment in the sector, writes Rachael Meredith. The "performance assessment of wave and tidal array systems" PerAWaT...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Fundamental Principles of Project Management
- From time to time, various attempts have been made to enunciate 'Principles and Practices' of project management. However, there appears to be no consensus on either the principles or the practices of 'acceptable' project management, nor does there appear to be much documentation of any 'theories' of project management either...
- White papers 1999-07-01
- Techniques for Project Initiation III
- "This paper discusses on various project initiation techniques related to shareholder and the organization. The first thing discussed is strategy and organizations culture. Now the organization that apply traditional strategic planning practices to a project must focus on integrating the project into the organization and its culture. This requires analyses...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Defining The Hierarchy Of Project Objectives Linking Organizational Strategy, Programs And Projects
- Having a clear and concise definition of project objectives early in the life cycle is an important ingredient for success. Clear objectives help ensure that all project stakeholders will develop. The hierarchy of objectives is a logical framework for project analysis. It is especially useful as a way of getting...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Project Safety and Health Management
- The project constructor has the responsibility to follow the general safety-and-health program and develop and implement a project-specific safety-and-health plan to address the unique conditions and hazards related to that project. The essential elements of the project safety plan have been briefly discussed in the article. The overall project safety-and-health...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Zoho Projects 2.0 Adds Wikis, Chat, and Microsoft Project Integration
- Back when I worked for Faceless Giant Corporation, LLC, I was part of a team that desperately needed a project-management tool. We were all over the place -- Excel, Lotus Notes, countless PDFs and Word documents -- to the point where the project simply couldn't be managed efficiently. ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Microsoft, Cisco and Intel fund project to assess teaching methods
- With an estimated 40% of the world's information now residing behind a firewall, employee productivity is driven by the ability to quickly find key information no matter where it's stored across your organization. At Google, we believe in a simple premise: all of the information you need to be productive...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Sample Engineering Project Manager Resume
- Use this sample resume to apply for the post of Project manager. Project manager is the leading position who is responsible for wearing many hats when they are directing job activities. He or she is responsible for detailed tasks, which are different according to type, difficulty and size. Manager is...
- Tools & templates 2009-01-01
- Project Cost Risk Analysis Using Crystal Ball-1
- The typical project often overruns its cost estimate. Overruns are common on government and commercial projects, even when changes in the design are taken into account. One reason this happens is because cost estimating traditionally fails to take into account the risk that the work will actually cost more (or...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- "Project Planning : The Really Creative & Highly Political First Step
- "The article is about Project Planning. Organizations select people to manage cross-functional projects based on their high levels of personal productivity and their ability to get things done. These PMs are typically task-oriented people with a strong sense of urgency and a keen focus on getting started and finishing....
- White papers 2003-01-01
