projectize

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

project + -ize

Verb

projectize (third-person singular simple present projectizes, present participle projectizing, simple past and past participle projectized)

  1. To organize using project management techniques such as defined deliverables, fixed timeframes, performance goals, project-based budgets, etc.
    • 1991, Michael A. Cusumano, Japan's Software Factories: A Challenge to U.S. Management:
      SDC historically has built into its genes, even built into the software business genes, this projectize mentality—the only way you can build software is to projectize it.
    • 2009, Ian Scoones, John Thompson, Farmer First Revisited, →ISBN:
      While messy partnerships do projectize activities and form temporary clusters of concerted action, they cannot be assumed to have some stable identity that can be held to account externally for the totality of its actions.
    • 2010, Peter Morris, Jeffrey K. Pinto, The Wiley Guide to Project Organization and Project Management, →ISBN:
      The company wanted to projectize their business and wanted to know what might stand in the way of that.
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