Project Management Scientists

Project Management for Scientists and Engineers

The starting point in discussing how projects should be properly managed is to rst understand what a project is and just as importantly what it is not.

People have been undertaking projects since the earliest days of organized human activity. The hunting parties of our prehistoric ancestors 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 and the Great Wall of China, were in their day of roughly the same dimensions as the Apollo Project to send man to the moon. We use the term project frequently in our daily conversations. A husband, for example may tell his wife, My main project for this weekend is to straighten out the garage.

Author: Merrie Barron and Andrew R. Barron

Licensed: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license

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