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Conceiving projects and devising plans are characteristic expressions of any goal-directed human activity. Manufacturing processes, scientific experiments, research programs, tax collection systems, are all endeavors once born as projects — of quite different nature, indeed, but all sharing essential features.
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Pagnoni, A. (1990). Introduction. In: Project Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75630-6_1
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