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ANNEX K: Glossary
                                           Project planning is usually the longest phase of the project management
                                           life cycle. It involves determining cost, schedule, and scope baselines and
                                           using these to create a detailed roadmap for executing project activities
                     Project planning      and producing deliverables.
                                           Broadly, a Stakeholder is any party which may be affected by a project. In
                                           project management, the term usually refers to parties with an interest in
                     Project stakeholders   the successful completion of a project.
                                           Each year the Controller establishes Indirect Rates called Provisional Rates
                                           that are approved by DCAA and administrated by DCMA to bill customers.
                     Provisional Rates:    These consist of Fringe, Overhead, and G&A.  The rates never stay consistent
                                           each year but adjust depending on work awarded and cost charged to the
                                           company.
                                           In project management, quality is a measure of a deliverable’s degree of
                                           excellence. Quality may also refer to a clearly defined set of stakeholder
                     Quality               requirements by which results are assessed.
                                           A set of practices designed to monitor processes and provide confidence
                                           that result in deliverables meeting quality expectations. It may involve
                     Quality assurance     quality audits and the stipulated use of best practices.
                                           The use of standardized practices to ensure that deliverables meet
                                           stakeholder expectations. It involves not only the definition and
                                           identification of unacceptable results but also the management of
                     Quality control       processes to optimize results.
                                           A set of stipulations regarding project deliverables. They are a key element
                                           of the project scope and explain in detail the stakeholders’ expectations
                     Requirements          for a project.
                                           An activity that involves identifying possible risks to a project and
                     Risk assessment       examining how these risks, if they occur, would affect objectives.
                                           Risk avoidance focuses on avoiding threats that can harm an organization,
                                           its projects, or assets. Unlike risk management, which is geared toward
                                           mitigating the impact of a negative event, risk avoidance seeks to address
                     Risk avoidance        vulnerabilities and make sure those events do not occur.
                                           A subset of management strategies that deals with identifying and
                                           assessing risks and acting to reduce the likelihood or impact of negative
                                           risks. Risk managers seek to ensure that negative risks do not affect
                     Risk management       organizational or project objectives.
                                           Risk mitigation involves decreasing the probability of a negative risk
                                           occurring, as well as protecting project objectives from a negative risk’s
                     Risk mitigation       impact.
                                           A risk owner is responsible for determining and enacting appropriate
                     Risk owner            responses to a specific type of risk.
                                           Risk transference involves handing ownership of risk to a third party who is
                                           typically specialized and better able to address the risk or to withstand its
                     Risk transference     impact.
                                           A comprehensive list of project activities and milestones in logical order,
                     Schedule              with start and finish dates for each component.
                                           The scope of a project constitutes everything it is supposed to accomplish
                     Scope                 to be deemed successful.
                     SF 1420               standard form: biographical data sheet
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