You might have read the title to this article and wondered “what does she mean by ‘projects’?” I absolutely love Scott Berkun’s definition “everything is a project.” In his brilliant blog post he explains…

“There are many ways to look at all that we do, but the project-centric view is potent. Everything in work, and many things in life, has a goal, a set of constraints, some design challenges, a schedule, a few dependencies, some key relationships, etc.”

I find lots of resistance to calling something a project. People think I’m trying to add bureaucracy to their workday. There is a strong desire to continue to simply do that next thing that comes to mind and hope that everything turns out OK. Why overcomplicate things? Then there’s this fear of being beaten down by the formal project management processes that often seems to believe that project management is the project rather than the business goal you’re trying to achieve.