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.

Industry: Business services

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Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA)

Business services; Project management

An analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analysed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and, by itself or in combination ...

Summary activity

Business services; Project management

A group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level, and displayed/reported as a single activity at that summary level. See also subproject and subnetwork.

Project quality management

Business services; Project management

A subset of project management that includes the processes required to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken. It consists of quality planning, quality assurance, ...

Fast tracking

Business services; Project management

A specific project schedule compression technique that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence, such as the design phase and construction phase, or to perform ...

Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis

Business services; Project management

This information-gathering technique examines the project from the perspective of each project’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to increase the breadth of the risks considered by ...