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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.
Industry: Business services
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design-build (D-B)
Business services; Project management
(1) A procurement or project delivery arrangement whereby a single entity (a contractor with subconsultants, or team of contractors and engineers, often with subconsultants) is entrusted with both ...
s-curve
Business services; Project management
Graphic display of cumulative costs, labor hours, percentage of work, or other quantities, plotted against time. The name derives from the S-like shape of the curve (flatter at the beginning and end, ...
project human resource management
Business services; Project management
A subset of project management that includes the processes required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project. It consists of organizational planning, staff acquisition, ...
design-build contracting
Business services; Project management
A contract structure where both design and construction responsibility are vested in a single contractor.
secondary risk
Business services; Project management
A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
project initiation
Business services; Project management
Launching a process that can result in the authorization and scope definition of a new project.
design-build contractor
Business services; Project management
A contractor that provides design and construction services under a single responsibility contractto an owner.
