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The centralized management of a particular program or programs such that corporate benefit is realized by the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques, and related high-level project management focus. See also project management office.
Industry:Business services
A measurement of cost performance on a project. It is the algebraic difference between the earned value (EV) and actual cost (AC). CV = EV minus AC. A positive value indicates a favorable condition and a negative value indicates an unfavorable condition.
Industry:Business services
The point in time that work was scheduled to start on a schedule activity. The scheduled start date is normally within the range of dates delimited by the early start date and the late start date. It may reflect resource leveling of scarce resources. Sometimes called planned start date.
Industry:Business services
A meeting dedicated essentially to contractor progress during the construction phase.
Industry:Business services
A specific type of project schedule compression technique performed by taking action to decrease the total project schedule duration after analyzing a number of alternatives to determine how to get the maximum schedule duration compression for the least additional cost. Typical approaches for crashing a schedule include reducing schedule activity durations and increasing the assignment of resources on schedule activities. See also schedule compression and fast tracking.
Industry:Business services
The process of converting a general or outline plan for a project into a time-based schedule based on the available resources and time constraints.
Industry:Business services
Those milestones identified as the basis for making progress payments.
Industry:Business services
Standards, rules, or tests on which a judgment or decision can be based, or by which a product, service, result, or process can be evaluated.
Industry:Business services
The sum of the products, services, and results to be provided as a project. See also project scope and product scope.
Industry:Business services
Partial payments on a contractor’s contract amount, periodically paid by the owner for work accomplished by the contractor to date, determined by calculating the difference between the completed work and materials stored and a predetermined schedule of values or unit costs.
Industry:Business services
