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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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Value engineering
Business services; Project management
A quantifiable deviation, departure, or divergence from a known baseline or expected value.
Functional manager
Business services; Project management
Someone with management authority over an organisational unit within a functional organization. The manager of any group that actually makes a product or performs a service.
User
Business services; Project management
The person or organisation that will use the project’s product or service. See also customer.
Quality management plan
Business services; Project management
The quality management plan describes how the project management team will implement the performing organization’s quality policy. The quality management plan is a component or a subsidiary plan of ...
Gantt chart - ground rules
Business services; Project management
A list of acceptable and unacceptable behaviours adopted by a project team to improve working relationships, effectiveness, and communication.
As-soon-as-possible (ASAP)
Business services; Project management
An activity for which the application sets the early dates as soon as possible. This is the default activity type in most project management systems.
Functional organisation
Business services; Project management
A hierarchical organisation where each employee has one clear superior, and staff are grouped by areas of specialisation and managed by a person with expertise in that area.
