- Industry: Government
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Those with a particularly significant interest in the project’s outcome, including those providing funding or right of way for the project and property owners who are affected by the project. Stakeholders are unique for each project.
Industry:Business services
The aggregation of the processes, tools, techniques, methodologies, resources, and procedures to manage a project. The system is documented in the project management plan and its content will vary depending upon the application area, organisational influence, complexity of the project, and the availability of existing systems. A project management system, which can be formal or informal, aids a project manager in effectively guiding a project to completion. A project management system is a set of processes and the related monitoring and control functions that are consolidated and combined into a functioning, unified whole.
Industry:Business services
The value of completed work expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. Also referred to as the budgeted cost of work performed.
Industry:Business services
A document established by consensus and approved by a recognised body that provides, for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines, or characteristics for activities or their results, aimed at the achievement of the optimum degree of order in a given context.
Industry:Business services
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 members.
Industry:Business services
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 work performed (i.e., earned value) and comparing it to the actual cost of work performed (i.e., actual cost). Progress is measured by comparing the earned value to the planned value.
Industry:Business services
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.
Industry:Business services
(1) The person assigned by the performing organisation to achieve the project objectives.
(2) Any person assigned to lead a team toward completion of a project. A project manager applies specialised knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques in order to meet customer expectations of a project.
(3) The person who heads up the project team and has the authority and responsibility for conducting the project and meeting project objectives through project management.
(4) A qualified individual or firm authorised by the owner to be directly responsible for the day-to-day management and administration, and for coordinating time, equipment, money, tasks, and people for all or specified portions of a specific project.
Industry:Business services
A narrative description of products, services, or results to be supplied.
Industry:Business services
Any schematic display of the logical relationship of project activities. (See precedence diagram.)
Industry:Business services
