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How do you name your project? by an code or you give it a proper and clear description?

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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
How do you name your project? by an code or you give it a proper and clear description?
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Irfat Ahmad Senior Sales & Business Transformation Leader| Godfrey Phillips India Ltd Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
I give it a Proper and Clear Description . I believe that naming depends on kind of Project you are working on and profiling of your Stakeholders also.
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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
I also give it a proper and clear description, also denoting if the work is an enhancement effort. The artifacts would reside in a structured folder for the particular group, organized by the different initiatives.
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Janice Grier Senior Technical Vendor Manager| ATT Shelby Township, Mi, United States
I don't personally name my projects but they are given proper and clear descriptions.
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Abolfazl Yousefi Darestani Manager, Quality and Continuous Improvement| Hörmann-TNR Industrial Doors Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
I personally prefer a clear description, however, you need to refer to the procedures and protocols of your organization. They may ask you to follow a specific procedure to name the project.
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Nagabhushan Hegde PM III| Synechron Technologies Bangalore, Karnataka, India
I would name it very clearly within the context of goals that the project is going to achieve. Simply said, it can highlight a word targeting project goal and suffixing it with month and year the project is going to start.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
I would give the project a name that reflects what the actual project is and then give it also an abbreviation in order to refer to it in the minutes, reports and so on. For Example:

Residential Care Building 1 (RC-B1): It reflects that it is a residential care.

Sometimes we also name the building so the name will be:

Residential Care Building 1 (RC-B1) - The Castle
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Frances Kerr Associate Program Manager| PreSonus Audio Electronics Baton Rouge, La, United States
I use codenames to name the project. It is somewhat common when bringing a product to market with intellectual property.
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Eugene Franks Program Manager| US Transportation Command Saint Louis, Mo, United States
I would always do it by a proper and clear description of what the project is
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Some projects have both description and a code (ie. number).
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
George -

Unless there is a confidentiality reason to protect project information, I prefer to give projects names which will inspire. One way to do this is to describe the desired outcome - as a sponsor, I'd much rather work for "Increase staff desktop productivity" than "Upgrade to Windows 10" or worse Project "MS-Win-10"!

Here's an old article I'd written on this very topic: https://kbondale.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/...-project-namin/

Kiron
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