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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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Reliability
Business services; Project management
The probability of a product performing its intended function under specific conditions for a given period of time.
Imposed date
Business services; Project management
A fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone, usually in the form of a "start no earlier than" and "finish no later than" date.
Virtual team
Business services; Project management
A group of persons with a shared objective who fulfil their roles with little or no time spent meeting face to face. Various forms of technology are often used to facilitate communication among team ...
Work plan
Business services; Project management
A comprehensive, realistic, and deliverable plan to accomplish the team mission and deliver the project. It includes Initiate & Align and Plan the Work elements, including a schedule and a budget.
Logical relationship
Business services; Project management
A dependency between two project schedule activities, or between a project schedule activity and a schedule milestone. See also precedence relationship. The four possible types of logical ...
Workaround
Business services; Project management
A response to a negative risk that has occurred. Distinguished from contingency plan in that a workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event.
Finish-to-finish (FF)
Business services; Project management
The logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity. See also logical relationship.
