What is a Project? m31435 What is a Project? 1.2 2009/08/05
15:47:24 GMT-5 2009/09/24 16:42:47.580 GMT-5 Merrie Phinney
Merrie Phinney merrie_phinney@administaff.com Andrew R Barron
Andrew R. Barron arb@rice.edu Merrie Phinney Merrie Phinney
merrie_phinney@administaff.com Andrew R Barron Andrew R. Barron
arb@rice.edu Merrie Phinney Merrie Phinney
merrie_phinney@administaff.com Andrew R Barron Andrew R. Barron
arb@rice.edu business operation outcome product project service
Business Social Sciences en The starting point in discussing how
projects should be properly managed is to first understand what
a project is and just as importantly what it is not. People have
been undertaking projects since the earliest days of organized
human activity. The hunting parties of our prehistoric ancestors
were projects for example; they were temporary undertakings
directed at the goal of obtaining meat for the community. Large
complex projects have also been with us for a long time. The
pyramids and the Great Wall of China, we