In what ways can the following activities be seen as projects? In what ways do they resemble ongoing, routine business activities? Feel free to add assumptions and details to describe how the activity might be a project in one context and routine in another. Reading the chapter before attending a university lecture. Taking the bus to work each day. Piloting an aircraft between Vancouver and Fiji. Teaching a course for the first time; teaching the same course every semester.

The answer is given below

Explanation:

A. Reading the chapter before attending a university lecture.

This resembles a project because it has an objective as we are informed that they are reading the chapter before going for lectures. It is also an ongoing business routine because the chapters have to be read before the lectures so as to be prepared.

B. Taking the bus to work each day.

For B, it can also be said to

be project as there is a beginning and also an ending. B could is a routine activity because it is done daily, and also it is vital for one to get to work everyday.

C. Piloting an aircraft between Vancouver and Fiji.

For C, it can also be said to

be project as there is a beginning and also an ending. Also, C could is a project because it has a specific objective as Vancouver and Fiji csn both be considered to be specific locations, thereby making this flight a specific objective. The piloting activity here is routine and is also done daily.

D. Teaching a course for the first time; teaching the same course every semester.

It is a project because it is a situation with a definite beginning and also has an end. Teaching the same course for every semester would be routine because it becomes an ongoing cycle, amd therefore the same task will be repeated.