"What this collection of projects begins to do is define a downtown for the Bronx," he said.
For me, the most disturbing part of the "freedom center" debate is the obsessive use of the word "freedom" in every detail of the collection of projects.
"We're working with treasury to release some of the frozen funds to move forward with a collection of projects we expect to announce soon," said Mr. Campbell, noting that in recent years, money had been appropriated but not spent.
"Sisi thinks, like all military men, that the economy is a collection of projects that the military runs," Robert Springborg, an expert on the Egyptian military who is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard University, told me.
Coca-Cola, which hands most of the bottling and marketing of its drinks to others, is little more than a collection of projects, run by people it calls "orchestrators".
Because of a stipulation created by the Nevada legislators, the money has not been deposited into the general federal Treasury, but rather put in a special Treasury account to be spent almost exclusively in Nevada on a something-for-everyone collection of projects.
Says Scott Hubbard, Mars program chief: "This is a program, not just a collection of projects".
Githens (2002) adds the notion of program and fit organizational strategy in his definition: "…a collection of projects or programs that fit into an organizational strategy.
Dye and Pennypacker (1999) include the notion of fit to organizational strategy in their definition for project portfolio: "…a collection of projects that, in aggregate, make up an organization's investment strategy".
As defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI) (2008), a portfolio is a collection of projects or programs grouped together to facilitate effective management of work to meet strategic business objectives.
