WHAT IS A PROJECT? A Project is a type of assignment, carried out individually and possibly involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular goal. An alternative view sees a project managerically as a sequence of events: a "set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and other limitations". A project may be a temporary social system, possibly staffed by teams to accomplish particular tasks under time constraints. A project may form a part of wider programme management or function as an ad hoc system. Open source software "project" or artist's musical "project" may lack defined team-membership, precise planning and/or time-limited durations. The word project comes from the latin word projectum from the latin verb proicere, " before an action ", which in turns comes from pro-, which denotes precedence, something else in time and iacere, "to do". The word ...