Project Management Plan Page 21
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Project Management Plan
Development Project – The sum of all tasks and activities necessary to build a software
product.
Document of Understanding – A formal agreement between two parties. A contract that is
sometimes referred to as a Statement of Work (SOW).
Glossary of Terms* (continued)
Documentation – The printed and displayed materials that explain an application to a user.
Duration - The period of time over which a task takes place. Duration establishes the schedule
for a project.
E
Effectiveness - A measure of the quality of attainment in meeting objectives.
Efficiency - A measure of the volume of output received for the input used.
Effort - The amount of work or labor (in hours or workdays) required to complete a task.
Environment – The set of tools and physical surroundings in which software is developed.
EPMO – Enterprise Project Management Office.
Estimate – A predicted total of expenditures required to complete a task, activity, or project.
Exit Criteria – The set of conditions that must be met prior to completing a project phase or
application.
F
Feasibility Project – A project designed to prove, or disprove, the appropriateness of the
technology solution under existing constraints (sometimes called “proof-of-concept” project).
Float - The amount of time for a task to be freely scheduled without affecting other tasks in the
project.
Function - An activity that spans the entire duration of a software project (e.g., status reporting,
quality assurance, verification and validation).
G
Gantt Chart – A method of displaying overlapped and partially concurrent activities by using
horizontal lines to reflect the time required by each activity. The chart, named for Henry
Lawrence Gantt, consists of a table of project task information and a bar chart that graphically
displays the project schedule to be used in planning and tracking.
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