Lesson 1 Focus on Practice
Projects defined: For each of the following, indicate if you think each one meets the definition of a project as discussed in your book and the lesson commentary.
Question 1
Developing a new widget. +
Question 2
Manufacturing a widget as part of a company’s product line. +
This is not a project. This is considered part of a company’s operations.
Question 3
A Penn State faculty member develops a new online project management course. +
Developing a new course would be considered a project. Once the new course is developed, it would become part of the operations.
Question 4
A Penn State faculty member teaches a project management course. +
This is not a project, since teaching a course would be part of Penn State’s normal operations.
