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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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Lessons learned
Business services; Project management
The learning gained from the process of performing the project. Lessons learned may be identified at any point. Also considered a project record, to be included in the lessons learned knowledge base.
Work package
Business services; Project management
A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure. The work package includes the schedule activities and schedule milestones required to ...
Level of effort (LOE)
Business services; Project management
Support-type activity (e.g., seller or customer liaison, project cost accounting, project management, etc.) that does not readily lend itself to measurement of discrete accomplishment. It is ...
Work performance information
Business services; Project management
Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work, collected as part of the direct and manage project execution processes ...
Network open end
Business services; Project management
A schedule activity without any predecessor activities or successor activities creating an unintended break in a schedule network path. Network open ends are usually caused by missing logical ...
Networking
Business services; Project management
Developing relationships with persons who may be able to assist in the achievement of objectives and responsibilities.
Network loop
Business services; Project management
A schedule network path that passes the same node twice. Network loops cannot be analysed using traditional schedule network analysis techniques such as the critical path method.
