Glossary of PM Terms
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- Immediate Activity
- An activity that can be forced to start on its earliest feasible date by resource scheduling, even if that means overloading a resource.
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- Impact
- The assessment of the adverse effects of an occurring risk.
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- Impact Analysis
- Assessing the pros and cons of pursuing a particular course of action.
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- Implementation Review or Visit
- An initial visit by members of the customer C/SCSC review team to a contractor’s plant to review the contractor’s plans for implementing C/SCSC on a new contract. Such visits should take place within 30 days after contract award.
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- Imposed Finish
- A finished date imposed on an activity by external constraints.
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- Imposed Start
- A start date imposed on an activity by an external constraint.
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- In Progress
- An activity that has been started, but not yet completed.
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- Indirect Cost
- Resources expended which are not directly identified to any specific contract, project, product or service, such as Overhead and G&A.
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- Individual Work Plan
- An individual work plan defines the responsibilities of an individual team member and is the lowest level of a technical plan.
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- Informal Review
- A less formal subset of a quality review.
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- Information Distribution
- Distributing information to stakeholders in a timely manner.
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- Initiation
- Committing the organization to begin a project.
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- Integrated Baseline Review (IBR)
- The newest form of the Department of Defense C/SCSC verification review process in which the technical staff lead the effort to verify that the entire project baseline is in place, together with a realistic budget to accomplish all planned work.
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- Integrated Cost/Schedule Reporting
- See Earned Value.
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- Integrated Product Development Teams (IPDT)
- The development of new products with use of multi-functional teams, who work in unison form the conceptual idea until completion of the product. Integrated product development teams are best contrasted with the traditional form of sequential functional development. Another term for IPDT is Concurrent Engineering.
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- Integration
- The process of bringing people, activities and other things together to perform effectively.
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- International Project Management Association
- A federation of European project management organizations. This does not include PMI or AIPM.
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- Invitation for Bid (IFB)
- Similar to a request for proposal, but often with a more specific application area.
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- IT Executive Committee
- The departmental top management group that is responsible for the overall direction of IT projects.
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