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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Scope verification

Business services; Project management

The process of formalising acceptance of the completed project deliverables.

The process of placing responsibility on the designers and implementers to perform within established budgets. Actual and budget project costs are compared. Two principles apply: (1) There must be a ...

Dependency

Business services; Project management

A relation between activities, such that one requires input from the other.

Scope, cost, and risk evaluation (SCORE)

Business services; Project management

A peer level review/due diligence analysis on the scope schedule and cost estimate for projects. Evaluates the quality and completeness, including anticipated risk and variability, of the projected ...

Design-build (D-B)

Business services; Project management

(1) A procurement or project delivery arrangement whereby a single entity (a contractor with subconsultants, or team of contractors and engineers, often with subconsultants) is entrusted with both ...

Risk category

Business services; Project management

A group of potential causes of risk. Risk causes may be grouped into categories such as technical, external, organizational, environmental, or project management. A category may include subcategories ...

Planning processes

Business services; Project management

Those processes performed to define and mature the project scope, develop the project management plan, and identify and schedule the project activities that occur within the project.