Showing posts with label Project Management - Difference between Process and Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Project Management - Difference between Process and Project. Show all posts

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Project and Process

When some activity is an ongoing activity i.e., repetitive, then that activity is a process. We encounter processes in regular production run in an organization.

In a bearing manufacturing company, the heat treatment done to enhance the hardness and other properties like tempering and annealing is a process. It’s repeated again and again with every lot.
In a service provider organization like in a bank the processing of loans through a set of operations is a process.

In above two examples, the activities are repetitive in nature and cannot be considered as projects, but what if we were to set up a new heat treatment plant or line.