The centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program’s strategic objectives and benefits.
Program Management
100
The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Project Management
100
Any organizational structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities and to direct the work of individuals assigned to the project.
Projectized Organization
100
A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization at the right time and in the proper sequence.
Work Authorization System (WAS)
100
who exerts influence over the project
Stakeholders
200
A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.
Project
200
The members of the project management team who are directly involved in project management activities.
Project Management Team
200
A government-imposed requirement, which specifies product, process, or service characteristics, including the applicable administrative provisions, with which compliance is mandatory.
Regulation
200
Phase gates, kill points, phase exits, toll gates, milestones, and decision gates are collectively known as
phase-end reviews
300
A document issued by senior management that formally authorizes the existence of a project. The charter also authorizes the project manager to apply organizational resources to the project.
Project Charter
300
Divisions within a project where extra control is needed to effectively manage the completion of a major deliverable.
Project Phase
300
A term used to describe progressive detailing of the project plan, thus recognizing that planning is iterative and ongoing process.
A characteristic of projects that integrates the concepts of temporary and unique. Because the resulting product/service of a project is unique, the characteristics which distinguish the product/service must be carefully worked out in detail over time. It is expected that the distinguishing factors will be broadly defined at the start of the project and become more explicit and detailed as the project team develops more comprehensive knowledge of the project.
Progressive Elaboration
400
An organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain.
PMO
400
Individuals and organizations who are involved in or may be affected by project activities or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by the performance or completion of the project.
Stakeholder
400
major factors which PMs must manage simultaneously in any project (name of group and the items)
A collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization(s) involved in the project, the nature of the project itself, and its area of application.
Project Life Cycle
500
The group of people that are performing the work of the project but are not necessarily involved with the management of the project.
Project Team
500
A document established by consensus and approved by a recognized body that provides, for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines, or characteristics for activities or their results, aimed at achievement of the optimum degree of order in a given context.
Standard
500
2 factors that increase throughout the project, then decrease sharply when project nears completion
cost, resources
500
3 factors that increase throughout the project, and remain high at the end
probability of successfully completing project
cost of change
defect repair