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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Original duration (OD)

Business services; Project management

The activity duration originally assigned to a schedule activity and not updated as progress is reported on the activity. Typically used for comparison with actual duration and remaining duration ...

The area, on either side of the centre line, or mean, of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer’s requirements for a product or service. This area may be greater than or less than ...

Project management process

Business services; Project management

One of the 44 processes, unique to project management and described in the PMBOK® Guide.

Remaining duration (RD)

Business services; Project management

The time in calendar units, between the data date of the project schedule and the finish date of a schedule activity that has an actual start date. This represents the time needed to complete a ...

Sponsor

Business services; Project management

(1) The person or group that provides the financial resources, in cash or in kind, for the project and is responsible for the overall project delivery. (2) The person assigning the project manager ...

Project management software

Business services; Project management

A class of computer software applications specifically designed to aid the project management team with planning, monitoring, and controlling the project, including: cost estimating, scheduling, ...

Early start date (ES)

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 start, based on the schedule network logic the data ...