Note that the word attempts is prominent in the definition of project. What that means is that a project isn't guaranteed to succeed . Unlike things that have fixed duration, and hence beginning, middle and end, a project continues over time. The project experience could be the first step in a continuing development effort. Whether it is or not, active participation in that experience is designed to increase individuals' ability to work successfully with others in an organization.
Projects involve more than one individual.
They apply several different skills to an overall goal. Engineering and programming skills can be promininent, but so can systems analysis, operations research, market-research, or management. In a project's initial phase, evaluating what a client or customer needs is a very valuable component of the overall work. After a design is completed marketing or sales services, cost-benefit analysis, and other economic considerations from implementing the system could require much more to be in a project document than simply a discussion of software or hardware developed. In twelve ten-week terms from six to forty students came to choose and work on their own projects.