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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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Project management

scope control

Business services; Project management

The process of controlling changes to the project scope.

project budget

Business services; Project management

The amount and distribution of money allocated to a project.

critical path method (CPM)

Business services; Project management

A schedule network analysis technique used to determine the amount of scheduling flexibility (the least amount of float) on various logical network paths in the project schedule network, and to ...

scope creep

Business services; Project management

Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time, costs, and resources, or without customer approval.

project calendar

Business services; Project management

A calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked, and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle. ...

customer

Business services; Project management

The person or organization that will use the project’s product or service or result. See also user.

scope definition

Business services; Project management

The process of developing a detailed project scope statement as the basis for future project decisions.

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