Glossary

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Administrative closure

Generating, gathering, and disseminating information to formalize phase or project completion.

Administrative principles

A subfield of the classical management perspective that focuses on the total organization rather than the individual worker, delineating the management functions of planning, controlling, organizing, commanding, and coordinating.

Agenda

A list or program of things to be done or considered for a meeting. A meeting agenda typically contains the purpose of the meeting, date, time, place, and topics to be discussed in the meeting.

Align

The act of bringing a project vision into proper or desirable coordination with the parent organization's vision.

Authorize work

Ordering of project activities to commence.

Available to promise document

One of the documents created in the supply chain process to indicate the availability of materials and promise to deliver on a date.