2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Projects, Their Quality at Entry and Challenges in the Front-end Phase
Author : Knut Samset
Published in: Making Essential Choices with Scant Information
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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A project is a restricted undertaking assigned to produce a specified output within an agreed time limit and budget. It is undertaken in order to solve a problem or respond to certain needs in society. Projects are considered unique in the sense that even when the objectives and outputs are the same they may differ in varying degrees, since the context in which they operate and the uncertainty to which they are exposed differ from project to project. Projects are temporary in the sense that they have a definite beginning and end. They may involve a single person or many thousands of people. They may require less than a hundred hours to complete or several million hours. Projects may involve a single unit of one organisation or may cross organisational boundaries.