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See quality assurance.
The process of evaluating overall project or product performance on a regular basis.
An expenditure that occurs on a repetitive basis.
The estimated cost that is yet to be incurred.
The amount of time needed to complete the balance of an activity or project.
The amount of work, in terms of days or hours, that remains to be completed on a task.
Any person, item, or funding necessary to accomplish an activity.
The assignment of resources to tasks in a project.
The work on an activity related to a specific resource.
The process of adjusting project schedules to minimize the peaks in daily resource usage.
A group of resources, related by skill, department, or function, that are available for assignment to project tasks.
The act of replacing one resource with another that offers similar characteristics. Itís important to replace generic resources with actual resources at some point in a projectís lifespan.
The probability of an undesirable outcome.
The timetable for a project, showing project tasks and milestones.
The ratio of work performed to work scheduled.
The difference between a taskís scheduled progress and its actual progress.
The combination of all project goals and tasks, and the work required to accomplish them.
Unplanned change in the scope of a project.
See float.
The amount of slack or float time used up by the delayed start of an activity.
A pop-up tip or label that appears when you hover your cursor over a particular part of the Microsoft Project interface. Many Smart Tags prompt the user for additional input.
See schedule performance index.
Any person who has an interest in the project; includes project team members, clients, funders, contractors, customers, higher-level managers, and other interested parties.
A base rate you assign to resources.
A date that you set for reporting the current status of a project.
An activity whose start or finish depends on the start or finish of a predecessor activity.
See schedule variance.
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