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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.
Industry: Business services
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Scope creep
Business services; Project management
Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time, costs, and resources, or without customer approval.
Project calendar
Business services; Project management
A calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked, and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle. ...
Customer
Business services; Project management
The person or organisation that will use the project’s product or service or result. See also user.
Scope definition
Business services; Project management
The process of developing a detailed project scope statement as the basis for future project decisions.
Project charter
Business services; Project management
A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorises the existence of a project, and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organisational resources to ...
Decision tree analysis
Business services; Project management
The decision tree is a diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. It is used when some future scenarios or ...
Scope management
Business services; Project management
The function of controlling a project in terms of its goals and objectives through the processes of conceptual development; full definition or scope statement; execution; and termination.
