Calendar Unit: The smallest unit of time used in scheduling the project. Calendar units are generally in hours, days, or weeks, but can also be in quarter years, months, shifts, or even in minutes
Change Control: Identifying, documenting, approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baseline.
Change Control Board (CBB): A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project, with all decisions and recommendations being recorded.
Change Control System [Tool]: A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled, changed, and approved. In most application areas the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system.
Change Request: Requests to expand or reduce the project scope, modify policies, processes, plans, or procedures, modify costs or budgets, or revise schedules. Requests for a change can be direct or indirect, externally or internally initiated, and legally or contractually mandated or optional. Only formally documented requested changes are processed and only approved change requests are implemented.
Chart of Accounts[Tool]: Any numbering system used to monitor the project costs by category (e.g. labor, supplies, materials, and equipment). The project chart of accounts is usually based upon the corporate chart of accounts of the primary performing organization. Contrast with code of accounts.
Charter: See project charter
Checklist: [input/output] Items listed together for convenience of comparison, or to ensure the actions associated with them are managed appropriately and not forgotten. An example is a list of items to be inspected that is created during quality planning and applied during quality control.
Claim: A request, demand, or assertion of rights by a seller against a buyer, or vice, for consideration, compensation, or payment under the terms of a legally binding contract, such as for a dispute change.
Close Project [process]: The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project process groups to formally close project or phase.
Closing Processes [process group]: Those processes performed to formally terminate all activities of a project or phase, and transfer the completed product to others or close a cancelled project.
Code of Accounts [tool]: Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure. Contrast with chart of accounts.
Co-location [technique]: An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication, working relationships, and productivity.
Common Cause: A source of variations that is inherent in the system and predictable. On a control chart, it appears as part of the random process variation (i.e., variation from a process that would be considered normal or not unusual), and is indicated by a random pattern of points within the control limits. Also referred to as random cause. Contrast with special cause.
Communication: A process through which information is exchanged among persons using a common system of symbols, signs, or behaviors.
Communication Management Plan [input/output]: The document that describes: the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; and who is responsible for providing each type of communication. A communication management plan can be formal or informal, highly detailed or broadly framed, based on the requirements of the project stakeholders. The communication management plan is contained in, or is a subsidiary plan of, the project management plan.
Communications Planning[process]: The process of determining the information and communications needs of the project stakeholders: who they are, what is their level of interest and influence on the project, who needs what information, when will they need it, and how it will be given to them.
Compensation: Something given or received, a payment or recompense, usually something monetary or in kind for products, services, or results provided or received
Component: A constituent part, element, or pieces of a complex whole.
Configuration Management System [tool]: A subsystem of the overall project management system. It is collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to: identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a product, result, service, or component; control any changes to such characteristics; record and report each change and its implementation status; and support the audit of the products, results, or components to verify conformance to requirements. It includes the documentation, tracking system, and defined approval levels necessary for authorizing and controlling changes. In most application areas, the configuration management system includes the change control system.
Change Control: Identifying, documenting, approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baseline.
Change Control Board (CBB): A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project, with all decisions and recommendations being recorded.
Change Control System [Tool]: A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled, changed, and approved. In most application areas the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system.
Change Request: Requests to expand or reduce the project scope, modify policies, processes, plans, or procedures, modify costs or budgets, or revise schedules. Requests for a change can be direct or indirect, externally or internally initiated, and legally or contractually mandated or optional. Only formally documented requested changes are processed and only approved change requests are implemented.
Chart of Accounts[Tool]: Any numbering system used to monitor the project costs by category (e.g. labor, supplies, materials, and equipment). The project chart of accounts is usually based upon the corporate chart of accounts of the primary performing organization. Contrast with code of accounts.
Charter: See project charter
Checklist: [input/output] Items listed together for convenience of comparison, or to ensure the actions associated with them are managed appropriately and not forgotten. An example is a list of items to be inspected that is created during quality planning and applied during quality control.
Claim: A request, demand, or assertion of rights by a seller against a buyer, or vice, for consideration, compensation, or payment under the terms of a legally binding contract, such as for a dispute change.
Close Project [process]: The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project process groups to formally close project or phase.
Closing Processes [process group]: Those processes performed to formally terminate all activities of a project or phase, and transfer the completed product to others or close a cancelled project.
Code of Accounts [tool]: Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure. Contrast with chart of accounts.
Co-location [technique]: An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication, working relationships, and productivity.
Common Cause: A source of variations that is inherent in the system and predictable. On a control chart, it appears as part of the random process variation (i.e., variation from a process that would be considered normal or not unusual), and is indicated by a random pattern of points within the control limits. Also referred to as random cause. Contrast with special cause.
Communication: A process through which information is exchanged among persons using a common system of symbols, signs, or behaviors.
Communication Management Plan [input/output]: The document that describes: the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; and who is responsible for providing each type of communication. A communication management plan can be formal or informal, highly detailed or broadly framed, based on the requirements of the project stakeholders. The communication management plan is contained in, or is a subsidiary plan of, the project management plan.
Communications Planning[process]: The process of determining the information and communications needs of the project stakeholders: who they are, what is their level of interest and influence on the project, who needs what information, when will they need it, and how it will be given to them.
Compensation: Something given or received, a payment or recompense, usually something monetary or in kind for products, services, or results provided or received
Component: A constituent part, element, or pieces of a complex whole.
Configuration Management System [tool]: A subsystem of the overall project management system. It is collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to: identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a product, result, service, or component; control any changes to such characteristics; record and report each change and its implementation status; and support the audit of the products, results, or components to verify conformance to requirements. It includes the documentation, tracking system, and defined approval levels necessary for authorizing and controlling changes. In most application areas, the configuration management system includes the change control system.
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