PRINCE2 Glossary of Terms - C
C - center of excellence to customer's quality expectations
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A -
accept to avoid
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B -
baseline to Business Case
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C -
center of excellence to customer's quality expectations
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D -
Daily Log to DSDM Atern
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E -
embedding (PRINCE2) to exploit
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F - H -
fallback to host site
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I -
impact to Issue Report
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L - O -
Lesson Log to output
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P -
performance targets to Project Support
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Q -
quality to quality tolerance
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R -
records to role description
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S -
schedule to supplier
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T -
tailoring to trigger
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U - W -
user acceptance to Work Package
center of excellence
A corporate coordinating function for portfolios,
programmes and projects providing standards, consistency of methods and processes, knowledge management, assurance and training.
Change Authority
A person or group to which the
Project Board may delegate responsibility for the consideration of requests for change or off-specifications. The Change Authority may be given a change budget and can approve changes within that
budget.
change budget
The money allocated to the Change Authority available to be spent on authorized requests for change.
change control
The procedure that ensures that all changes that may affect the project’s agreed objectives are identified, assessed and either approved, rejected or deferred.
checkpoint
A team-level, time-driven review of progress.
Checkpoint Report
A progress report of the information gathered at a checkpoint, which is given by a team to the
Project Manager and which provides reporting data as defined in the
Work Package.
closure notification
Advice from the
Project Board to inform all stakeholders and the host sites that the project resources can be disbanded and support services, such as space, equipment and access, demobilized. It should indicate a closure date for costs to be charged to the project.
closure recommendation
A recommendation prepared by the
Project Manager for the
Project Board to send as a project closure notification when the board is satisfied that the project can be closed.
Communication Management Strategy
A description of the means and frequency of communication between the project and the project’s stakeholders.
concession
Ano ff-specification that is accepted by the
Project Board without corrective action.
configuration item
An entity that is subject to configuration management. The entity may be a component of a product, a product, or a set of products in a release.
Configuration Item Record
A record that describes the status,
version and
variant of a configuration item, and any details of important relationships between them.
configuration management
Technical and administrative activities concerned with the creation, maintenance and controlled change of configuration throughout the life of a product.
Configuration Management Strategy
A description of how and by whom the project’s products will be controlled and protected.
configuration management system
The set of processes, tools and databases that are used to manage configuration data. Typically, a project will use the configuration management system of either the customer or
supplier organization.
constraints
The restrictions or limitations that the project is bound by.
corporate or programme standards
corrective action
A set of actions to resolve a threat to a plan’s
tolerances or a defect in a product.
cost tolerance
The permissible deviation in a plan’s
cost that is allowed before the deviation needs to be escalated to the next level of management. Cost tolerance is documented in the respective plan.
See also ‘tolerance’.
customer
The person or group who commissioned the work and will benefit from the end results.
customer’s quality expectations
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