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Contract Close-out: Completion and settlement of the contract, including resolution of all outstanding items.
Contractor/Supplier: An entity in private industry that enters into contracts with another customer.
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Control: The process of comparing actual performance with planned performance, analyzing variances, evaluating possible alternatives, and taking appropriate corrective action as needed.
Control Account: A management control point at which actual costs can be accumulated and compared to Earned Value. A Control Account is a natural point for cost/schedule planning and control since it represents the work assigned to one responsible organizational element and one Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) element.

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Q: Good project management helps an organization respond faster, accomplish its strategic goals, and recognize return on investment. As organizations have recognized the fundamental benefits of project management,the practice has becomemuch more democratic, inviting participation from the individuals actually doing the work.What benefits (or problems) do you see from this peer-to-peer model?
A: Inviting participation can lead to increased conflict. The interaction can exacerbate any repressed issues. Often times, there needs to be a shift to better soft skills and leadership in order for project management to succeed in this peer-to-peer environment.
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Tactical Planning: Planning concerned with the effective deployment of an organization’s resources in order to accomplish the objectives laid out in the strategic business plan. The planning horizon is typically one to three years.
Task: See activity.
Team Development: Developing individual and group skills to enhance project performance.
Team Members: See project team members.
Template: A standardized piece of a system, developed to address redundant requirements. The piece is developed once, saved in a library, and used repeatedly within the system.
Time-Scaled CPM: A plotted or drawn representation of a CPM network where the length of the activities indicates the duration of the activity as drawn to a calendar scale.
Time-Scaled Network Diagram: Any project network diagram drawn in such a way that the positioning and length of the activity represents its duration. Essentially, it is a bar chart that includes network logic.
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Quality Assurance (QA): (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.
Quality Control (QC): (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.
Quality Planning: Identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
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Relationships: Any of the four basic types of constraint relationships between the start and/or finish of an activity and the start and/or finish or another activity.
Remaining Duration (RDU): The time needed to complete an activity.
Replanning: A change in the original plan for accomp

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Network Analysis: The process of identifying early and late start and finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project activities.
Network Diagram: A schematic display of activities and logical relationships of activities that comprise the project. Two popular drawing methods for scheduling are “arrow” and “precedence” diagramming methods.
Network Logic: The collection of activity dependencies that make up a project network diagram.
Network Planning: A broad generic term for techniques used to plan complex projects using logic diagrams (networks). Two of the most popular techniques are ADM and PDM.
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Objective: A predetermined result; the end toward which effort is directed.
Operational Planning: Planning concerned with the development of control mechanisms to assure the effective implementation of specified actions in the strategic or tactical plans. Operational planning provides a basis for the measurement of actual performance relative

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Early Finish Date (EF): In the critical path method, the earliest possible point in time on which the uncompleted portions of an activity (or the project) can finish based on the network logic and any schedule constraints .
Early Start Date (ES): In the critical path method, the earliest possible point in time on which the uncompleted portions of an activity (or the project) can start, based on the network logic and any schedule constraints.
Earned Value (EV): (1) A method for measuring project performance. It compares the amount of work that was planned with what was actually accomplished to determine if cost and schedule performance is as planned. See also actual cost of work performed, budgeted cost of work scheduled, budgeted cost of work performed, cost variance, cost performance index, schedule variance, and schedule performance index. (2) The budgeted cost of work performed for an activity or group of activities.
Earned Value Measurement Technique (EVMT):

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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 shifts or even in minutes. Used primarily in relation to project management software.
Change: Alternation or variation to a scope of work and/or the schedule for completing the work.
Change Analysis: The function of reviewing a change to a program or system to assess impact on related programs or systems, prior to applying the change.
Change Control: The process by which a change is proposed, evaluated, approved or rejected, scheduled, and tracked.
Change Control Board (CCB): A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for approving or rejecting changes to the project baselines.
Change Order: A formal authorization by the Procurement Contracting Officer for a change or variance to an existing contract.
Chart of Accounts: Any numbering system used to monitor project costs by category (e.g., labor,

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Activity: An element of work performed during the course of a project. An activity normally has an expected duration, an expected cost, and expected resource requirements.
Activity Definition: Identifying the specific activities that must be performed in order to produce the various project deliverables.
Activity Description (AD): A short phrase or label used in a project network diagram. The activity description normally describes the scope of work of the activity.
Activity Duration Estimating: Estimating the number of work periods, which will be needed to complete individual activities.
Actual Cost of Work Performed (ACWP): Total costs incurred (direct and indirect) in accomplishing work during a given time period. See also earned value.
Actual Finish Date (AF): The point in time that work actually ended on an activity. (Note: in some application areas, the activity is considered “finished” when work is “substantially complete.”)
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