**Projects are time-bound sequences of tasks to achieve a goal and deliver value.**
There are a few different definitions of `project` you could use, they all more or less say the same thing. They all agree though that [[Projects and Areas are Different]].
## Per [[PARA Method]]:
A project is a series of actions to take to accomplish some sort of goal. Projects are **completable**. They are associated with one or more specific action-oriented goals, with associated **timeframes**. They can be broken down into smaller tasks, goals, and/or milestones. ([[Project Decomposition]])
## Per [[Getting Things Done The Art of Stress-Free Productivity]]
Per the book a project is:
> any desired result that can be accomplished within a year that requires more than one action step.
## Per Me
My soft definition of project is anything that makes it into my [[Project Lists]], which means it’s something big enough to need some sort of lifecycle management on and worth keeping [[Note Types#Project Notes]] about (because I don’t keep [[Tasks Records]] outside of projects).
### Source
- [[PARA Method]]
- [[Getting Things Done The Art of Stress-Free Productivity]]
### Related
- [[Defining Area ]]
- [[Defining Actions & Tasks ]]
- [[OKRs]]
- [[Project Decomposition]]
- [[Note Types]]
- [[Obsidian for Projects]]
- [[Tasks Records]]