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The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. Usually expressed as staff hours, staff days, or staff weeks. Contrast with duration.
Industry:Business services
One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines. See precedence diagramming method.
Industry:Business services
A risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented.
Industry:Business services
Something toward which work is to be directed; a strategic position to be attained or purpose to be achieved; a result to be obtained; a product to be produced; or a service to be performed.
Industry:Business services
A bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods. Resource availability may be depicted as a line for comparison purposes. Contrasting bars may show actual amounts of resource used as the project progresses.
Industry:Business services
A product, result, or service generated by a process. May be an input to a successor process.
Industry:Business services
The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. Path convergence is characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity.
Industry:Business services
A request, demand, or assertion of rights by a seller against a buyer, of vice versa, for consideration, compensation, or payment under the terms of a legally binding contract, such as for a disputed change.
Industry:Business services
Extending or generating parallel schedule network paths from the same node in a project schedule network diagram. Path divergence is characterized by a schedule activity with more than one successor activity.
Industry:Business services
A risk response planning technique that indicates that the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk, or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy.
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