Research into the management of projects has had an important role in the previous growth of the profession and should have a significant role in the future growth. A project can be characterized as a unique endeavor-in the sense of a one-off-undertaken to accomplish a defined objective. Yet in reality the most fundamental characteristic of a project is something that is a direct result of this uniqueness, namely the project life cycle. This is certainly a tough challenge: it will require a substantial breadth of analysis and understanding. Maintaining a coherent conceptual view of the discipline at this broader level is genuinely difficult. But this, this chapter argues, is what the discipline’s research agenda should be about.