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Decision-making

The process of making choices in a project team environment. Several types of decisionmaking are useful in projects: consensus, leader-imposed, delegated, voting, and scoring models.

Delegate

To commit or entrust responsibility to another.

Detailed plan/detailed project plan

The in-depth method of simultaneously accomplishing the scope, activities, resources, communication, and budget goals of the project.

Discipline

Control gained by a determined effort to follow both formal and informal methods that have proven to be effective.

DRAM

Dynamic Random Access Memory.

Duration

The number of work periods required to complete an activity or other project element.