Projects are tasks with special characteristics:

• They are generally complex, unique, and involve a high degree of risk.

• They have precise goals which are agreed on by you and the ordering party.

• They are limited in duration and are cost and capacity intensive.

• They are subject to certain quality requirements.

• They are mostly of strategic importance for the company carrying them out.

Projects are generally part of the internal processes of a company. To be able to control all tasks in project execution, you need an organizational form that is specific to the project and which is shared by all departments involved.

To be able to carry out a project in its entirety, the project goals must be precisely described and the project activities to be carried out must be structured. A clearly and unambiguously structured project is the basis for its planning, monitoring, control and success.

A project is structured:

• According to how it is organized

• According to the processes involved

One of the first steps in project planning is to break down the work into tasks and set up a hierarchy.

The criteria you use to classify and divide tasks vary depending on the type and complexity of the project.

In the Project System, you can plan the organization of the work and people in your project with the work breakdown structure (WBS).

One of the steps in project planning is determining the sequence in which the tasks will be performed. In this step, you determine which tasks are dependent on each other and which tasks require additional work or must be broken down further.

In the Project System, you can plan the processes and the sequence of tasks with networks.