ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some projects that take the people beyond the standard form, and looks at the concepts and language. It considers several examples that take the people, quite deliberately, to the other extreme, and into territories where projects are less constrained and more malleable. Mainstream control-based project management methodology is only of value during our brief stays on islands of certainty. The ways in which the people think about projects are currently framed by the well-established language and terminology of the mainstream discipline of project management; defined in many books and guidance documents produced by the custodians of project management knowledge and their allies. Whereas the mainstream projects are concerned with planning and control to achieve a tightly specified end point, the community projects are organic, growing and developing in an unstructured way, to achieve aims that are unclear and negotiable.
