. For all other uses, see Project . A project is a temporary endeavour undertaken to create a product orserviceA Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), Third Edition, Project Management Institute.. Origin The word project comes from the Latin word projectum from projicere, "to throw something forwards" which in turn comes from pro-, which denotes something that precedes the action of the next part of the word in time (paralleling the Greek ???) and jacere, "to throw". The word "project" thus actually originally meant "something that comes before anything else is done". When the word was initially adopted, it referred to a plan of something, not to the act of actually carrying this plan out. Something performed in accordance with a project was called an object. This use of "project" changed in the 1950s when several techniques for project man

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