Dictionary

Resource Leveling

Category: Knowledge base > Dictionary

Any form of network analysis in which scheduling decisions (start and finish
dates) are driven by resource management concerns (e.g., limited resource availability
or difficult-to-manage changes in resource levels).
read more >>

Quality Control (QC)

Category: Knowledge base > Dictionary

(1) The process of monitoring specific project results to determine if
they comply with relevant quality standards and identifying ways to eliminate causes
of unsatisfactory performance. (2) The organizational unit that is assigned responsibility
for quality control.
read more >>

Quality Assurance (QA)

Category: Knowledge base > Dictionary

(1) The process of evaluating overall project performance on a regular
basis to provide confidence that the project will satisfy the relevant quality
standards. (2) The organizational unit that is assigned responsibility for quality
assurance.
read more >>

Project Time Management

Category: Knowledge base > Dictionary

A subset of project management that includes the processes required
to ensure timely completion of the project. It consists of activity definition,
activity sequencing, activity duration estimating, schedule development, and schedule
control.
read more >>

Project Scope Management

Category: Knowledge base > Dictionary

A subset of project management that includes the processes required
to ensure that the project includes all of the work required, and only the
work required, to complete the project successfully. It consists of initiation, scope
planning, scope definition, scope verification, and scope change control.
read more >>

Project Risk Management

Category: Knowledge base > Dictionary

A subset of project management that includes the processes concerned
with identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risk. It consists of risk
identification, risk quantification, risk response development, and risk response control.
read more >>

Project Quality Management

Category: Knowledge base > Dictionary

A subset of project management that includes the processes required
to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
It consists of quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control.
read more >>

Project Procurement Management

Category: Knowledge base > Dictionary

A subset of project management that includes the
processes required to acquire goods and services from outside the performing organization.
It consists of procurement planning, solicitation planning, solicitation,
source selection, contract administration, and contract close-out.
read more >>

Project Planning

Category: Knowledge base > Dictionary

The development and maintenance of the project plan.
read more >>

Project Plan Execution

Category: Knowledge base > Dictionary

Carrying out the project plan by performing the activities included
therein.
read more >>

Manage your Projects,
Team and Documents online!