Projects are the most effective way to harness human creativity to achieve tangible long-term results. They may have been called differently in the past, but building a pyramid, crafting a dome, or founding a nation require vision, planning, and coordinated effort – the key characteristics of what we today call a project. In practice, we can and should approach every large-scale initiative or task, or any work with which we are not sufficiently familiar to complete successfully without some degree of preparation and planning, as a project. At the simplest level, a project is a non-repetitive set of tasks defined by three parameters: time, cost, and quality. In other words, it is the means to achieve a specific outcome using particular resources within a clearly defined time frame.