[killjoywashere]

I don't want to come across as putting down the author's work, but for the sake of everyone else, I want to reframe the definition of "long project".

This would be a nice post if it was titled "Strategies for Quick Projects". I'm on year 8 of what is likely a life-long project (at a pace that is doubling annually). That's a fairly long project, but far from the longest. The Manhattan Project, the Human Genome Project, the Apollo project. The Shuttle program. The National Cathedral. These are long projects. They're big too. There are other long projects which might be considered "small". Learning violin is a long, small project. Cataloging all the species of flora and fauna on an island is a long, small-ish project. Cataloging all the microbiota on that island would be a medium-big project. Cataloging all the microbiota on a continent would outstrip the Human Genome Project by a factor of 100.

[wawawiwa]

I agree with the author about the definition he gives to "long".

I think it's subjective anyway. Notre-Dame or the Sagrada Familia were / are being built in more than a hundred years, so the dozen of years of Apollo could be qualified as short in comparison.

When reading "long", it can only be subjective so there is no point of arguing.

[onion2k]

The Manhattan Project, the Human Genome Project, the Apollo project. The Shuttle program. The National Cathedral. These are long projects.

This is semantic hair-splitting a bit, but those things aren't "projects". They're portfolios of programs that are made up of lots of individual projects.

[brixon]

Well, that is a strategy to deal with large/long projects, break them into smaller/shorter ones.

[kerkeslager]

The author starts off in the very first paragraph defining what he means by "long project". This passes the "Did the author communicate?" test with flying colors.

[KineticLensman]

I like the idea of the specific strategies, although the three offered mainly seem to apply to one-person projects, or to the experiences of a single person in a wider team. There is a mention of the evolution of intra-team dynamics of a group project, but no specific strategies aimed at groups.

[Torwald]

Just wanted to add this to your list of long-term projects…

http://longnow.org