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Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time, costs, and resources, or without customer approval.
Industry:Business services
A calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked, and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle. Typically defines holidays, weekends, and shift hours. See also resource calendar.
Industry:Business services
The person or organization that will use the project’s product or service or result. See also user.
Industry:Business services
The process of developing a detailed project scope statement as the basis for future project decisions.
Industry:Business services
A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project, and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Industry:Business services
The decision tree is a diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. It is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. It incorporates probabilities and the costs or rewards of each logical path of events and future decisions, and uses expected monetary value analysis to help the organization identify the relative values of alternate actions.
Industry:Business services
The function of controlling a project in terms of its goals and objectives through the processes of conceptual development; full definition or scope statement; execution; and termination.
Industry:Business services
A plan, which may range from a formal Contract/Responsibility Chart with detailed instructions on a large project, to an informal list of contact names, telephone numbers, and schedule of meetings on a small project.
Industry:Business services
A subset of project management that includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection and dissemination, storage and ultimate disposition of project information. It consists of communications planning, information distribution, performance reporting, and administrative closure.
Industry:Business services
