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A system of practices, techniques, procedures, and rules used by those who work in a discipline.
Industry:Business services
A significant point or event in the project. See also schedule milestone.
Industry:Business services
A summary-level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestones. See also master schedule.
Industry:Business services
Derived from the project vision, an action statement that is feasible in time and place and compatible with the pursuit of the vision. A brief summary, approximately one or two sentences, that sums up the background, purposes, and benefits of the project. A statement that answers three questions: (1) What do we do? (2) For whom do we do it? (3) How do we go about it?
Industry:Business services
Collect project performance data with respect to a plan, produce performance measures, and report and disseminate performance information.
Industry:Business services
The process of monitoring and controlling the processes required to initiate, plan, execute, and close a project to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan and project scope statement.
Industry:Business services
Those processes performed to measure and monitor project execution so that corrective action can be taken when necessary to control the execution of the phase or project.
Industry:Business services
A technique that computes, or iterates, the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations, to calculate a distribution of possible total project cost or completion dates.
Industry:Business services
A schedule activity that has low total float. The concept of near critical is equally applicable to a schedule activity or schedule network path. The limit below which total float is considered near critical is subject to expert judgement and varies from project to project.
Industry:Business services
A schematic display of the sequential and logical relationships of the activities that comprise the project. One popular drawing convention is called precedence diagramming. A view of project data in which the project logic is depicted graphically. Frequently called a flowchart, PERT chart, or logic diagram.
Industry:Business services
