Sunday, 24 April 2011
Shirley's project definition
A project to me has a definate beginning and end. It is something that it out of the ordinary to your everyday tasks and often will be a one off - sometimes it might be a trial project that if successful then becomes part of your normal work but at this point is no longer a poject. It has set tasks and project milestones to ensure it is on track and meeting the objectives set. It normally has a separate allocated budget and is measureable to ensure success or failure.
Monday, 11 April 2011
Project management #20
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. It is sometimes conflated with program management, however technically that is actually a higher level construction: a group of related and somehow interdependent engineering projects.
A project is a temporary endeavor, having a defined beginning and end (usually constrained by date, but can be by funding or deliverables),[1] undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives,[2] usually to bring about beneficial change or added value. The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast to business as usual (or operations),[3] which are repetitive, permanent or semi-permanent functional work to produce products or services. In practice, the management of these two systems is often found to be quite different, and as such requires the development of distinct technical skills and the adoption of separate management.
The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals[4] and objectives while honoring the preconceived project constraints.[5] Typical constraints are scope, time, and budget.[1] The secondary—and more ambitious—challenge is to optimize the allocation and integration of inputs necessary to meet pre-defined objectives.
This definition is from wikipedia.< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management >
I quite like this as it clearly states that a project is different from business as usual, which none of the definitions already listed include. I think all of the definitions provided to date are good, although somewhat repetitious.
Susan M
A project is a temporary endeavor, having a defined beginning and end (usually constrained by date, but can be by funding or deliverables),[1] undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives,[2] usually to bring about beneficial change or added value. The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast to business as usual (or operations),[3] which are repetitive, permanent or semi-permanent functional work to produce products or services. In practice, the management of these two systems is often found to be quite different, and as such requires the development of distinct technical skills and the adoption of separate management.
The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals[4] and objectives while honoring the preconceived project constraints.[5] Typical constraints are scope, time, and budget.[1] The secondary—and more ambitious—challenge is to optimize the allocation and integration of inputs necessary to meet pre-defined objectives.
This definition is from wikipedia.< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management >
I quite like this as it clearly states that a project is different from business as usual, which none of the definitions already listed include. I think all of the definitions provided to date are good, although somewhat repetitious.
Susan M
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