- Industry: Government
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A written document issued by the owner requesting an adjustment to the contract sum or an extension of the contract time; generally issued by the architect or the owner’s representative.
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
Requests to expand or reduce the project scope, modify policies, processes, plans, or procedures, modify costs or budgets, or revise schedules. Requests for a change can be direct or indirect, externally or internally initiated, legally or contractually mandated, or optional. Only formal, documented, requested changes are processed and only approved change requests are implemented.
Industry:Business services
Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions (start and finish dates) are driven by resource constraints (e.g., limited resource availability or difficult-to-manage changes in resource availability levels).
Industry:Business services
An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (e.g., square footage in construction, lines of code in software development) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters, such as scope, cost, budget, and duration. This technique can produce higher levels of accuracy depending upon the sophistication and the underlying data built into the model. An example for the cost parameter is multiplying the planned quantity of work to be performed by the historical cost per unit to obtain the estimated cost.
Industry:Business services
A written instrument that creates and defines the franchises of a city, educational institution, or corporation.
Industry:Business services
