{"id":527,"date":"2014-09-11T17:25:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/?p=527"},"modified":"2015-04-11T17:26:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T17:26:28","slug":"what-is-a-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/what-is-a-project\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Project?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s a temporary group activity designed to produce a unique product, service or result.<\/li>\n<li>A project is temporary in that it has a defined beginning and end in time, and therefore defined scope and resources.<\/li>\n<li>And a project is unique in that it is not a routine operation, but a specific set of operations designed to accomplish a singular goal. So a project team often includes people who don\u2019t usually work together \u2013 sometimes from different organizations and across multiple geographies.<\/li>\n<li>The development of software for an improved business process, the construction of a building or bridge, the relief effort after a natural disaster, the expansion of sales into a new geographic market \u2014 all are projects.<\/li>\n<li>And all must be expertly managed to deliver the on-time, on-budget results, learning and integration that organizations need.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmi.org\/About-Us\/About-Us-What-is-Project-Management.aspx%20\">http:\/\/www.pmi.org\/About-Us\/About-Us-What-is-Project-Management.aspx <\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-527\" data-postid=\"527\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-527 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a temporary group activity designed to produce a unique product, service or result. A project is temporary in that it has a defined beginning and end in time, and therefore defined scope and resources. And a project is unique in that it is not a routine operation, but a specific set of operations designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-terms","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}