Project (disambiguation)
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Project may refer to:
  • Project
    Project
    A project in business and science is typically defined as a collaborative enterprise, frequently involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim. Projects can be further defined as temporary rather than permanent social systems that are constituted by teams...

    , a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service
  • In architecture, a "project" refers to a planned but never-built building
  • Public housing
    Public housing
    Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. Social housing is an umbrella term referring to rental housing which may be owned and managed by the state, by non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the...

    , often referred to as housing projects in the United States
  • Megaproject
    Megaproject
    A megaproject is an extremely large-scale investment project. Megaprojects are typically defined as costing more than US$1 billion and attracting a lot of public attention because of substantial impacts on communities, environment, and budgets. Megaprojects can also be defined as "initiatives that...

  • Program (management)
  • List of project management topics
  • Project finance
    Project finance
    Project finance is the long term financing of infrastructure and industrial projects based upon the projected cash flows of the project rather than the balance sheets of the project sponsors...

  • Project planning
    Project planning
    Project planning is part of project management, which relates to the use of schedules such as Gantt charts to plan and subsequently report progress within the project environment....

  • Enterprise Project Management
    Enterprise Project Management
    Enterprise Project Management , in broad terms, is the field of organizational development that supports organizations in managing integrally and adapting themselves to the changes of a transformation....

     (EPM)
  • Project management software
    Project management software
    Project management software is a term covering many types of software, including estimation and planning, scheduling, cost control and budget management, resource allocation, collaboration software, communication, quality management and documentation or administration systems, which are used to...

    • Microsoft Project
      Microsoft Project
      Microsoft Project is a project management software program, developed and sold by Microsoft, which is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.The application creates critical path...


Projects

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  • Boondoggle (project)
    Boondoggle (project)
    A boondoggle is a project that is considered to waste time and money, yet is often continued due to extraneous policy motivations.- Etymology :...

    , a project that wastes time and money

:Category:Projects
  • :Category:Collaborative projects
  • :Category:Engineering projects
  • Carbon project
    Carbon project
    A carbon project refers to a business initiative that receives funding because of the cut the emission of greenhouse gases that will result...

    , environmental business initiative
  • Genome project
    Genome project
    Genome projects are scientific endeavours that ultimately aim to determine the complete genome sequence of an organism and to annotate protein-coding genes and other important genome-encoded features...

    , genetics (DNA) mapping of all organisms
  • GNU Project
    GNU Project
    The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project, announced on September 27, 1983, by Richard Stallman at MIT. It initiated GNU operating system development in January, 1984...

    , free software and mass collaboration
  • Millennium Project
    Millennium Project
    The Millennium Project is an independent international think tank with 40 "nodes" around the world that gathers and accesses information on futures studies that produces the annual State of the Future report since 1997 and the Futures Research Methodology series Versions 1-3.The Project was formed...

    , think tank
  • Project Alpha
    Project Alpha
    Project Alpha was an elaborate hoax orchestrated by the stage magician and skeptic James Randi. It involved planting two fake psychics, Steve Shaw and Michael Edwards, into a paranormal research project. During the initial stages of the investigation, the researchers came to believe that the...

    , hoax
  • Project Gutenberg
    Project Gutenberg
    Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books...

    , digitize and archive cultural works
  • Project Phoenix
    Project Phoenix
    Project Phoenix may refer to:* Project Phoenix , a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by listening for radio signals* Project Phoenix , South African National Defence Force programme to revive its Reserve Force element...

     (various)
  • Rosetta Project
    Rosetta Project
    The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone to last from 2000 to 12,000 AD; it is run by the Long Now Foundation. Its goal is a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,500...

    , language
  • SLOOP Project
    SLOOP Project
    SLOOP - Sharing Learning Objects in an Open Perspective - is an eLearning and open content project started in 2005 thanks to a European project co-funded within the Leonardo da Vinci programe...

    , Sharing Learning Objects in an Open Perspective, education

Government and military

:Category:Espionage projects
:Category:Military projects
    • Manhattan Project
      Manhattan Project
      The Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army...

      , codename for a project conducted during World War II to develop the first atomic bomb
    • Project Blue Book
      Project Blue Book
      Project Blue Book was one of a series of systematic studies of unidentified flying objects conducted by the United States Air Force. Started in 1952, it was the second revival of such a study...

      , one of a series of systematic studies of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) conducted by the United States Air Force during the 1950s-70s
    • Project HARP
      Project HARP
      Project HARP, short for High Altitude Research Project, was a joint project of the United States Department of Defense and Canada's Department of National Defence created with the goal of studying ballistics of re-entry vehicles at low cost; whereas most such projects used expensive rockets, HARP...

       (High Altitude Research Project), was a joint project of the United States Department of Defense and Canada's Department of National Defence started in 1961
    • Stargate Project
      Stargate Project
      The Stargate Project was the umbrella code name of one of several sub-projects established by the U.S. Federal Government to investigate claims of psychic phenomena with potential military and domestic applications, particularly "remote viewing": the purported ability to psychically "see" events,...

      , codename of several US military projects into psychic phenomena

Music

  • Side project
  • DJ Project
    DJ Project
    DJ Project is a Romanian dance music group, initially made up of Gino Manzotti and DJ Maxx as producers and Elena Baltagan as the vocalist...

  • Project (album)
    Project (album)
    Project is the second collaborative studio album by guitarists Greg Howe and Richie Kotzen, released in 1997 through Shrapnel Records. According to Howe, his previous collaboration with Kotzen, Tilt , had sold well and thus resulted in a second album.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric...

    , 1997 music album by Greg Howe and Richie Kotzen
  • Project Wyze
    Project Wyze
    Project Wyze was a Canadian rap rock band active from 1996 before breaking up in 2003 to pursue their side-project Dead Celebrity Status.-History:...

    , band
  • Shadow Project
    Shadow Project
    Shadow Project were a deathrock band formed in the early 1990s with Rozz Williams, Eva O and Paris Sadonis. The band's first album included bassist Jill Emery and drummer Thomas Morgan....


Television

  • Project G.e.e.K.e.R.
    Project G.e.e.K.e.R.
    Project G.eeK.eR. is an animated television series that premiered on CBS on September 14, 1996. It was created by Douglas TenNapel, creator of Earthworm Jim, with original music by Shawn Patterson...

    , 1996 animated television series
  • Project Runway
    Project Runway
    Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...

    , American reality television series about fashion design

See also

  • Pro-Ject Audio Systems
    Pro-Ject
    Pro-Ject Audio Systems is a manufacturer of high-end audio equipment, founded in 1990 by Heinz Lichtenegger and located in Austria, with manufacturing plants in Czech Republic and Slovakia. It produces a range of audio equipment including a family of turntables, which are often quoted as reference...

  • Projection (disambiguation)
  • Protect (disambiguation)
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