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1Total cost management — (TCM) is the name given by AACE International to a process for applying the skills and knowledge of cost engineering. It is also the first integrated process or methodology for portfolio, program and project management. AACE first introduced the… …
2Project management — is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end (usually time constrained, and often constrained by funding or deliverables) …
3Cost-benefit analysis — is a term that refers both to:* a formal discipline used to help appraise, or assess, the case for a project or proposal, which itself is a process known as project appraisal; and * an informal approach to making decisions of any kind. Under both …
4Project portfolio management — (PPM) is a term used by project managers and project management (PM) organizations to describe methods for analyzing and collectively managing a group of current or proposed projects based on numerous key characteristics. The fundamental… …
5Project Mercury — Duration 1959 1963 Goal Place Americans into orbit for as long as one day Achievements First manned flight: May 5, 1961 First orbital flight …
6Cost engineering — is an area of engineering practice concerned with the application of scientific principles and techniques to problems of cost estimating, cost control, business planning and management science, profitability analysis, project management, and… …
7Project Cyclops — [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19730010095 1973010095.pdf NASA Technical Report CR 114445 Project Cyclops: A design study of a system for detecting extraterrestial intelligent life] . 14.5 MB pdf file.] was a 1971 NASA… …
8Project triangle — The Project TriangleCommonly referred to in engineering is the project triangle, shown here:You are given the options of Fast , Good and Cheap , and told to pick any two. Here Fast refers to the time required to deliver the product, Good is the… …
9Project 28 — is the name given to a U.S. border protection program that runs along a convert|28|mi|km|sing=on stretch of the US/Mexican border in southern Arizona.Randal C. Archibold, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/us/26fence.html 28 Mile Virtual Fence Is …
10Project planning — is part of project management, which relates to the use of schedules such as Gantt charts to plan and subsequently report progress within the project environment. [cite book | author = Harold Kerzner | year = 2003 | title = Project Management: A… …
