Rules: >You start from the last letter of the term posted previously. >In case, more than one terms posted with same letters (concurrently posted), you start with the latest term. >Only Project Management Terms in this relay. >A term may include multiple words. >Acronyms are fine. please include the expansion before the description. >Your term needs to be followed by a short description of the term. >No successive posting of term by the same member. The below one is fine. member A: --------L member B: L----- --- ----D member A: D---- ------ ---- > If you don't get a term starting from a particular letter(last letter of previous term), feel free to start from the next letter. e.g. previous term - buzz, if you don't get a term starting with 'z', you may start with 'a'. (Hoping this rule will be rarely used.:) >End date of game: No end date. Till the game goes on.
Vasi, CATALYSTS.
Let me start the first term:
Project - Temporary endeavour to create a unique product, service or result. Saving Changes...
Error proofing:
Use of any automatic device or method that either makes it impossible for an error to occur or makes the error immediately obvious once it has occurred. Also known as “mistake proofing'.Japanese name: Poka Yoke (pronounced PO-ka yo-KAY).
Example-SIM card slot in cell phones is designed in such a way that user is allowed to insert SIM card in correct way only. There is no chance for user to make a mistake while putting SIM card in a cell phone. This makes the design mistake proof.. Saving Changes...
Bala S DuvvuriProject Manager| ShellBangalore, Karnataka, India
Grade - A category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use (such as a 'hammer') but do not share the same requirements for quality (i.e. different hammers may need to withstand different amounts of force) Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Executing Process Group: Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project specifications. Saving Changes...
Bala S DuvvuriProject Manager| ShellBangalore, Karnataka, India
Project Management Office - The PMO sets standards for project management and ensures a consistent methodology across all projects. Saving Changes...
External customer:
A person or organization that receives a product, service or result but is not part of the organization supplying it. Saving Changes...
Bala S DuvvuriProject Manager| ShellBangalore, Karnataka, India
Request for quotation - A formal invitation to submit a price for goods and/or services as specified Saving Changes...
Markus KopkoAI Enabler for Project & Program Mgmt | Founder PMotion.ai / The PM
AI Coach| PMotion.aiHamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Negotiated Settlements. -
The process of reaching final equitable settlement of all outstanding issues, claims, and disputes through negotiation. Saving Changes...
Near Critical Activity:
A schedule activity that has low total float. The concept of near critical is equally applicable to a schedule activity or schedule network path. Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Skipping Y & Z.
Assumption: There may be external circumstances or events that must occur for the project to be successful (or that should happen to increase your chances of success). If you believe that the probability of the event occurring is acceptable, you could list it as an assumption. An assumption has a probability between 0 and 100%. That is, it is not impossible that the event will occur (0%) and it is not a fact (100%). It is somewhere in between. Assumptions are important because they set the context in which the entire remainder of the project is defined. Saving Changes...
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