Project management

Project management

Referring to the discipline of planning, organizing, securing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project objectives.

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standard

Business services; Project management

A document established by consensus and approved by a recognized body that provides, for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines, or characteristics for activities or their results, aimed at the ...

project management team

Business services; Project management

The members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities. On some smaller projects, the project management team may include virtually all of the project team ...

earned value management (EVM)

Business services; Project management

A management methodology for integrating scope, schedule, and resources, and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. Performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of ...

start date

Business services; Project management

A point in time associated with a schedule activity’s start, usually qualified by one of the following: actual, planned, estimated, scheduled, early, late, target, baseline, or current.

project management process group

Business services; Project management

A logical grouping of the project management processes described in the PMBOK® Guide. The project management process groups include initiating processes; planning processes; executing processes; ...

early finish date (EF)

Business services; Project management

In the critical path method, the earliest possible point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity (or the project) can finish, based on the schedule network logic, the data ...

sponsor - stakeholder

Business services; Project management

Persons and organizations such as customers, sponsors, performing organizations, and the public that are actively involved in the project, or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected ...