Step 1.1 What is a project?
A project is really a very simple concept that many professional and academic books spend pages and pages defining. Essentially, a project is a task with a known end point. For example, building a new house is a project, the end point being when the house is built. Similarly, creating a new piece of computer software is a project, as is launching a new product for a business. Projects can be used to complete many different types of tasks.
Usually the term ‘project’ is applied to tasks with some degree of complexity. So whilst you could argue that cooking yourself some toast is a project, with the end point being buttered toast on your plate, usually the term is not applied to such simple activities which do not need ...
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