Project
collaborative enterprise, frequently involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim
A Project is a type of assignment, typically involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a specific objective.
Quotes
edit- The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action; we can not avoid living it through a project; and there is no project which is purely contemplative since one always projects himself toward something, toward the future; to put oneself "outside" is still a way of living the inescapable fact that one is inside.
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity. Philosophical Library. 1948. ISBN 978-0-8065-0160-4. Part III: The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity.
- If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.
- Barry Boehm (1995); quoted in: L. Bass, P. Clements, and R. Kazman (1998) Software Architecture in Practice, Addison Wesley Longman. Chapter 2
- Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
- Fred Brooks (1975), The Mythical Man-Month,
- Basic to successful project management is recognizing when the project is needed — in other words, when to form a project, as opposed to when to use the regular functional organization to do the job. At what point in time do the changes in.
- David I. Cleland and William R. King (1968) Systems Analysis and Project Management. New York: mcgraw-Hill, p. 154
- Every thought willingly contemplated, every word meaningly spoken, every action freely done consolidates itself in the character, and will project; itself onward continually.
- Henry Giles (1809–1882). Quoted in: Tryon Edwards, D.D. A dictionary of thoughts, being a cyclopedia of laconic quotations from the best authors, both ancient and modern. 1891. p. 61
- Et le chemin est long du projet à la chose.
- The road is long from the project to its completion.
- Molière, Le Tartuffe (1664), III. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 220-21.
- Project management is becoming more important as equipment, systems, and projects become more complex.
- Bud Porter-Roth (1955) Proposal Development. p. 3-9
- To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Vol. ii. Book iv. Ch. vii. Part 3. 1775. Quoted in John Bartlett (1820-1905), Familiar quotations, 1876. p. 659.
