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Project Management

A project is defined as a temporary collaborative enterprise involving research or design that is planned to achieve a particular aim. Projects are constituted by teams that work together under time constraints to accomplish specific tasks. A program is an ongoing work, while a project has a defined beginning and end intended to create a unique product or result. The document provides examples distinguishing a project from a program and discusses the original meaning and definitions of the term "project".

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Project Management

A project is defined as a temporary collaborative enterprise involving research or design that is planned to achieve a particular aim. Projects are constituted by teams that work together under time constraints to accomplish specific tasks. A program is an ongoing work, while a project has a defined beginning and end intended to create a unique product or result. The document provides examples distinguishing a project from a program and discusses the original meaning and definitions of the term "project".

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Meaning of Project

Projectis defined as a
1. collaborative enterprise,
2. involving research or design,
3. Plannedto achieve a particular aim

Temporary in Nature
Projects can be further defined
1. as temporary rather than
permanentsocial systemsorwork
systems
2. that are constituted byteamswithin or
across organizations
3. to accomplish particulartasks
4. under time constraints/time bound

Difference between a Project and


Program
An on-going work is usually called (or

evolves into) aprogram.

Brain Teasers
Which of these is a project and which is a
program?
1) A pilot/experimental study of 3 weeks is
conducted to understand whether Aadhar
can be successful in India or not.
2) An All India launch of Aadhar is done from
now on every Indian who is born is India
will be issued a Aadhar Card.

What it originally meant:


The wordprojectis derived from

theLatinwordprojectum which in turn


comes from the Latin verbproicere,
which means "before an action"
Which in turn comes frompro-, which
denotes precedence, something that comes
before something else in time (paralleling
theGreek) andiacere, "to do". The word
"project" thus actually originally meant
"before an action".

Definition
A project consists of a temporary endeavor

undertaken to create a
uniqueproduct,serviceor result.
Another definition is a management
environment that is created for the purpose
of delivering one or more business products
according to a specifiedbusiness case.

Your Task
Think of a project and and give reason why

it is a project?

Think of a project that you can undertake

for your own benefit preferably not longer


than duration of this trimester?

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