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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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Acceptance criteria
Business services; Project management
Those criteria, including performance requirements and essential conditions, which must be met before project deliverables are accepted.
Project team
Business services; Project management
All the project team members, including the project management team, the project manager and, for some projects, the project sponsor.
Free float (FF)
Business services; Project management
(1) The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start of any immediately following schedule activities. (2) Time an activity can be delayed beyond its early ...
Template
Business services; Project management
A partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a, defined structure for collecting, organizing, and presenting information and data. Templates are often based upon documents ...
Project summary work breakdown structure (PSWBS)
Business services; Project management
A work breakdown structure for the project that is only developed down to the subproject level of detail within some legs of the WBS, and where the detail of those subprojects are provided by use of ...
Fixed-price or lump-sum contract
Business services; Project management
A type of contract involving a fixed total price for a well-defined product. Fixed-price contracts may also include incentives for meeting or exceeding selected project objectives, such as schedule ...
Technical performance measurement
Business services; Project management
A performance measurement technique that compares technical accomplishments during project execution to the project management plan’s schedule of planned technical achievements. It may use key ...