INTRODUCTION
Understanding the Process of Managing Projects
People have been undertaking projects since the earliest days of organized human activity. The hunting parties of our prehistoric forebears were projects, for example; they were temporary undertakings directed at the goal of obtaining meat for the community. Large, complex projects have also been with us for a long time. The pyramids, the Great Wall of China, and Hadrian's Wall were projects that, in their time, were of roughly the same dimensions as the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb or the Apollo Project to send humans to the moon.
All of us are constantly undertaking projects ...
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