Temporaryness In Project Management

I have seen no many definitions and arguments over this subject that sometimes it amazes me why there is so much confusion and discussion over this issue and thus I thought to write about project definitions and clatter over the matter about its being temporary.

Since I am PMI member and PMP certified project manager so very first thought and the definition which comes my mind is that the project is a temporary endeavour undertaken to create a new product, useful service or even modify existing product or services. As per the PMP studies the very nature of project is temporary and it says that every project has a definite beginning and the end also. The target or end itself is reached when the project’s intentions as well as objectives are

It is undertaken using novel processes: no project before or after will use exactly the same approach. It is transient: it has a beginning and an end.”(Turner & Muller, 2003: 1)

Going on further Turner (2003) further says that viewing project as temporary endeavour or organisation introduces many other elements of project management such as “The conflict of interest between the various stakeholders; the role of the manager (agent), and of the broker and steward; the need to put in place information and communication systems to monitor delivery of the project, to monitor achievement of the owner’s objectives, and to avoid self-interest and opportunism by the project’s participants, especially the agent.” (Turner, 2003: 4)

All above discussion does not help us decide whether two projects should be managed as one, two or four. To be able to reach that conclusion Turner said that projects should be seen as an agency for change and as an agency for resource

If it is a task that will be performed repeatedly, it is left with the base organization to perform. The problem with a unique task is that no one has performed it previously. Therefore, details of what activities need to be performed and consequently no one has the detailed blueprint for how to proceed in order to achieve the desired results.” (Anderson at el, 2009: 19) and thus it differs vastly with organisational or production tasks. So far in this short essay I have tried to describe a project and since I am PMI student thus emphasised on definition given by PMI and since it is one of the largest body and association in the world for project management and thus other bodies of project management knowledge say and have a view that PMBoK definition lacks full depth and as per Scandinavian school of project management the stress on organisational perspective was lacking and says that project should be looked upon as temporary organisation that is established to carry out a certain task (Lundin & Soderholm, 2016) also as far as my knowledge and reading for this essay is concerned I found Turner & muller (2003) definition broad and covers most of the important aspects in the definition of projects. Thus in conclusion & as per limited exposure, I would say further elaboration, deliberation as well research is needed for exploring far deeper depths of definition of projects and their