After you've completed all of the steps to creating a project you will see a page acknowledging the completion of the process. On this page you are provided a link to the project home page. At this point, your project is in the pending state. An Administrator must approve your project before you can build your team.
While your project is in the pending status, you can begin to customize your project. You can:
Once your project is approved, you can accept member requests and begin building your project team.