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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.
Industry:Business services
A type of fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract), regardless of the seller's costs.
Industry:Business services
A term for work whose meaning and placement within a structured plan for project work varies by the application area, industry, and brand of project management software.
Industry:Business services
The document that describes how the project scope will be defined, developed, and verified; how the work breakdown structure will be created and defined; and provides guidance on how the project scope will be managed and controlled by the project management team. It is contained in or is a subsidiary plan of the project management plan. The project scope management plan can be informal and broadly framed, or formal and highly detailed, based on the needs of the project.
Industry:Business services
A scheduling method in which, regardless of the number of resources assigned to the task, the duration remains the same.
Industry:Business services
Two or more people working interdependently toward a common goal and a shared reward.
Industry:Business services
The narrative description of the project scope, including major deliverables, project objectives, project assumptions, project constraints, and a statement of work, that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a common understanding of project scope among the stakeholders. The definition of the project scope — what needs to be accomplished.
Industry:Business services
A set contract amount for all labor, materials, equipment and services; and contractor’s overhead and profit for all work being performed for a specific scope of work.
Industry:Business services
The process of influencing a group of diverse individuals, each with their own goals, needs, and perspectives, to work together effectively for the good of the project such that their team will accomplish more than the sum of their individual efforts could otherwise achieve.
Industry:Business services
