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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Scheduling

Business services; Project management

The process of converting a general or outline plan for a project into a time-based schedule based on the available resources and time constraints.

Progress milestones

Business services; Project management

Those milestones identified as the basis for making progress payments.

Criteria

Business services; Project management

Standards, rules, or tests on which a judgement or decision can be based, or by which a product, service, result, or process can be evaluated.

Scope

Business services; Project management

The sum of the products, services, and results to be provided as a project. See also project scope and product scope.

Partial payments on a contractor’s contract amount, periodically paid by the owner for work accomplished by the contractor to date, determined by calculating the difference between the completed work ...

Critical activity

Business services; Project management

Any schedule activity on a critical path in a project schedule. Most commonly determined by using the critical path method. Although some activities are "critical" in the dictionary sense, without ...