The concept of the project
Temporary work for the project is to create a unique product, service or result carried out. The project "temporary" means the project has a clear start and end. When the project objectives reached, or when the project because not or can not reach the target discontinued, or
when the project requirements cease to exist, the project is over. If the customer (customer, project sponsor or advocate) wishes to terminate the project, then the project may be terminated. Temporary does not necessarily mean that the short duration of the project, it refers to the length of participation and their projects. The project to create products, services, or results have generally not temporary. Most of the projects are intended to create sustainable results. For example, National Monument, the construction project is to create a spread BES results. Social, economic and environmental impacts generated by the project, but also tend to be much longer than the project itself.
Project is a very broad concept. The project "temporary" has determined that the project will be time-limited, that there is a project life cycle, that is, the start time and end time of the project (start and end).
End Items
1. When projects achieve their goals. For example, a software design, development, testing, acceptance, customer normal use, normal project delivery.
2. When the project failed to reach the desired objectives and termination. For example, a building covered covered, developers funding strand breaks appendix out.
3. Project demand does not exist, the end of the project. For example, a company in order to facilitate staff real-time communication and exchange, set up a project to do real-time communication of an internal staff, but micro-channel launched enterprise micro-channel, then the house will not need to re-develop a IM software, so the project will be over .
The temporary project
Temporary project, to maintain the time does not mean that the project is very short, this is a temporary project illustrates the cycle, there is a starting point and focus. For example, the person's age, people from dying at birth, no matter how far away, but the focus is death. Forever or people do not exist. The project is the same, the project from the beginning to the end, regardless of the duration of the project how long or how short this, but the end result is the end of him. If the entry is not a law of the development project, the development of the legal provisions enacted over, duration may be very short, probably only three days, but may last a year and half perhaps, but he will eventually end. Not as good as the Three Gorges Project in the project, he may have to continue five or six years, or even longer, but it will eventually end.
The project is of a temporary nature, but the results generated by the project is likely to be prolonged, it could last a very long life. But rather that the Beijing Olympic Games main stadium project, eye-catching in itself may be three years, but the results produced by striking "Bird's Nest" likely to continue for thousands of years, or even longer.
The uniqueness of the project
Each has its own unique feel are eye-catching features, the project's products are unique, each project will create a unique product, service or result of project outputs may be tangible, it may be intangible. Although some project deliverables or activities might duplicate elements, but this repetition does not change the unique nature of the work on the project. For example, even with the same or similar material to build from the same or different teams, but each building project is due to different locations, different designs, different environments and situations, different stakeholders, etc., and have uniqueness .
Project can create:
a product that may be part of other products, upgrading a product, it could itself is the final product;
the ability a service or provide some services (such as support for business functions of production or distribution) ;
improvements to existing product lines or service lines (such as Six Sigma project to reduce the defect rate);
one kind of outcome, such as a results or file (such as knowledge of a research project created, some may judge trend exists, or to determine whether a new process is beneficial to the community).
Examples of projects
to develop a new product, service or result;
change the structure of an organization, processes, staffing, or style;
develop or purchase a new or information systems (hardware or software) the improved;
implementation of a study, the results will be properly recorded;
the construction of a building, facility or infrastructure;
implement, improve or enhance existing business processes and procedures.