What is a project?
Question: Which of these are projects?
- A project team is responsible for replacing PCs over 4 years old wth the
latest hardware and software. When these become 4 years old, they too
will also be replaced
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- A team is working to produce analysis and design documentation
to SSADM standards for an application that is required desperately
- You are asked to examine the processes of a warehouse, and
implement a more streamlined approach that is cheaper to run and
provides a better service
- You are expected to improve programming standards this year
What is a project?
A project is a set of related tasks that are coordinated to achieve
a specific objective in a given time limit
Key words
- Achieve a specific objective
- normally unique and "novel"
- Time limit
- often other constraints too
- Coordinated
- projects typically involve many people - a team
- this will be assumed from now on
Note: The word "project" is often used in educational institutions
to describe work done by one person. This is not how typical software projects
are run
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