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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Project management

Those documents utilized in bid and proposal activities, which include buyer’s Invitation for Bid, Invitation for Negotiations, Request for Information, Request for Quotation, Request for Proposal, ...

cost control

Business services; Project management

The process of influencing the factors that creates variances, and controlling changes to the project budget.

schedule compression

Business services; Project management

Shortening the project schedule duration without reducing the project scope. See also crashing and fast tracking.

procurement management plan

Business services; Project management

The document that describes how procurement (the processes from developing procurement documentation through contract closure) will be managed.

cost estimate validation process (CEVP)

Business services; Project management

Using input from various disciplinary experts, costs associated with potential risks to a project are assessed and the probability of delivering a project at a given cost and by a given date is ...