What is Project: Definition and 1000 Discussions

A project (or program) is any undertaking, carried out individually or collaboratively and possibly involving research or design, that is carefully planned (usually by a project team, but sometimes by a project manager or by a project planner) to achieve a particular aim.An alternative view sees a project managerially as a sequence of events: a "set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and other limitations".A project may be a temporary (rather than permanent) social system (work system), possibly staffed by teams (within or across organizations) to accomplish particular tasks under time constraints.A project may form a part of wider programme management
or function as an ad hoc system.Note that open-source software "projects" or artists' musical "projects" (for example) may lack defined team-membership, precise planning and/or time-limited durations.

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  3. Wrichik Basu

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  4. I

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  5. M

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  8. J

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  11. M

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  15. F

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  16. Y

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  21. stargateengineer

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  22. T

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  34. V

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  35. A

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  36. CMJ96

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  37. S

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  40. S

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  41. PsychonautQQ

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  45. X

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  47. Mayed Al-Tunaiji

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  48. Buggsy GC

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  49. ISamson

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  50. kolleamm

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