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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Cost-reimbursable contract

Business services; Project management

A type of contract involving payment (reimbursement) by the buyer to the seller for the seller’s actual cost, plus a fee typically representing seller’s profit. Costs are usually classified as direct ...

Scheduled finish date (SF)

Business services; Project management

The point in time that work was scheduled to finish on a schedule activity. The scheduled finish date is normally within the range of dates delimited by the early finish date and the late finish ...

Project management process group

Business services; Project management

A logical grouping of the project management processes described in the PMBOK® Guide. The project management process groups include initiating processes; planning processes; executing processes; ...

Early finish date (EF)

Business services; Project management

In the critical path method, the earliest possible point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity (or the project) can finish, based on the schedule network logic, the data ...

Sponsor - stakeholder

Business services; Project management

Persons and organisations such as customers, sponsors, performing organizations, and the public that are actively involved in the project, or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected ...

Project life cycle

Business services; Project management

A collection of generally sequential project phases whose names and numbers are determined by the control needs of the organisation or organisations involved in the project. A life cycle can be ...

Direct costs

Business services; Project management

The costs directly attributed to a work-scope, such as labor, material, equipment, and subcontracts, but not the cost of operations overhead and the labor, material, equipment, and subcontracts ...