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| Organizing and directing other people to achieve a planned result within a predetermined schedule and budget. |
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| The person or group that funds the project |
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| Clients and key managers who review the progress and direct the project. |
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| The person or group of people who will use the new system |
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| The level of formality f a project, the rigor of holding meetings and producing documentation. |
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Project Management Body of Knowledge
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| A project management guide and standard of fundamental project management principles. |
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| A document to help define the scope of a new system. |
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| The benefits that accrue to the organization; usually measured in dollars. |
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| The required capabilities of a new system; part of a System Vision Document. |
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| Process of comparing costs and benefits to see whether investing in a new system will be beneficial. |
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| The present value of dollar benefits and dollar costs of a particular investment. |
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| The point in time at which dollar benefits offset dollar costs. |
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| The time period after which the dollarbenefits have offset the dollar costs. |
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| A benefit that accrues to an organization but that cant be measured quantitatively or estimated accurately. |
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| Project Iteration Schedule |
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| The list of iterations and use cases or user stories assigned to each iteration. |
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| The schedule that lists, organizes, and describes the dependencies of the detailed work tasks. |
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| The list or heirarchy of activities and tasks of a project, used to estimate the work to be done and to create a detailed work schedule. |
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| A bar chart that portrays the schedule by the length of horizon bars superimposed on a calendar. |
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| A sequence of tasks that cant be delayed without causing the entire project to be delayed. |
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| A meeting held by the team at the end of a iteration to determine what was successful and what can be improved. |
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