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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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Project management

Corrective action

Business services; Project management

Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.

Scalability

Business services; Project management

Scale, defined by Webster’s, is a progressive classification, as of size, amount, importance, or rank. In other words, scalability is the level of work planning required based on the project size, ...

Procedure

Business services; Project management

A series of steps followed in a regular definitive order to accomplish something.

Cost

Business services; Project management

The monetary value or price of a project activity or component that includes the monetary worth of the resources required to perform and complete the activity or component, or to produce the ...

Process

Business services; Project management

A set of interrelated actions and activities performed to achieve a specified set of products, results, or services.

Cost/benefit

Business services; Project management

A criterion for comparing programs, projects, and alternatives when benefits or a given objective.

Schedule activity

Business services; Project management

A discrete scheduled component of work performed during the course of a project. A schedule activity normally has an estimated duration, an estimated cost, and estimated resource requirements. ...

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