A project may be more than you think it is

Abstract

This paper presents a particular concern about the idea of the Project, namely that its boundaries are fundamentally soft, in addition to being structured around nested processes. The word Project can be understood both in terms of its own definition and with respect to a variety of possible concepts associated with it. The development of a project is a process itself because it usually combines a set of different skills in order to get an appropriate solution for a given demand. Because of the human relevance to the management process, it is a research issue. According to this understanding, project management is presented as "the art of planning, controlling and executing a project in a way that ensures successful delivery of the desired outcome”. At this time another question emerges from the previous discussion: that is, how to do a project? We present the simple answer: Describing the steps on the path to transform an idea into a product is a project itself. It is absolutely expected that each one of the steps described are developed using an understanding of the whole cycle, reinforcing the design approach as non-linear and unpredictable even taken as formal procedures in a product development process.