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Packet Capture (PCAP)
(Context: Software)
Definition
Results from the interception and copying of a data packet that is crossing or moving over a specific computer network.
https://www.vita.virginia.gov/media/vitavirginiagov/it-governance/ea/pdf/Event-Log-Management.pdf
Packet Switching
(Context: )
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The process of routing and transferring data by means of addressed packets so that a channel is occupied only during transmission of a packet. On completion of the transmission, the channel is made available for transfer of other packets.
Parametric Estimating
(Context: )
Definition
An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (e.g., square footage in construction, lines of code in software development) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters, such as scope, cost, budget, and duration. This technique can produce higher levels of accuracy depending upon the sophistication and the underlying data built into the model.
PMBOK
Pareto Chart
(Context: )
Definition
A histogram, ordered by frequency of occurrence, that shows how many results were generated by each identified cause.
PMBOK
Password
(Context: )
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A unique string of characters that, in conjunction with a logon ID, authenticates a user's identity.
Path
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A set of sequentially connected activities in a project network diagram.
Path Convergence
(Context: )
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The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. Path convergence is characterized by a schedule activity with more than one successor activity.
PMBOK
Path Divergence
(Context: )
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Extending or generating parallel schedule network paths from the same node in a project schedule network diagram. Path divergence is characterized by a schedule activity with more than one successor activity.
PMBOK
Payback Period
(Context: )
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The number of years it takes for the cumulative dollar value of the benefits to exceed the cumulative costs of a project.
CCA
Penetration testing
(Context: )
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A penetration test is a method of evaluating the security computer system or network simulating an attack by a malicious user.
Percent Complete (PC)
(Context: )
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An estimate, expressed as a percent, of the amount of work that has been completed, on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
PMBOK
Performance Budget
(Context: General, Technology Management)
Definition
A collection of limits imposed on a defined set website metrics that describe expected performance.
Performance Gap
(Context: )
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The gap between what customers and stakeholders expect and what each process and related sub processes produces in terms of quality, quantity, time, and cost of services and products.
GAO
Performance Measurement
(Context: )
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The process of developing measurable indicators that can be systematically tracked to assess progress made in achieving predetermined goals and using such indicators to assess progress in achieving these goals.
GAO
Performance Reporting
(Context: )
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The process of collecting and distributing performance information. This includes status reporting, progress measurement, and forecasting.
PMBOK
Performing Organization
(Context: )
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The enterprise whose personnel are most directly involved in doing the work of the project.
PMBOK
Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)
(Context: )
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A standard for connecting peripherals to a personal computer or components within a computer, designed by Intel and released in 1993. PCI is supported by most major manufacturers. The technology is usually called a bus but is in fact a bridge.
Permalink
(Context: General, Software)
Definition
A URL that is intended to remain unchanged for many years into the future, yielding a hyperlink that is resistant to link rot.
Persistence Service
(Context: )
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Defines a service when an object state can be preserved in a persistent media such as an object database.
Personal Area Network (PAN)
(Context: )
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Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) is the set of transmission technologies used by a person for interconnecting devices they use in a home, in a workplace, in the car, in the gym, or in a mobile setting. Typically, a wireless personal area network uses one or more technologies that permit communication within about 10 meters - in other words, a very short range. One such technology is Bluetooth, which is the basis for IEEE 802.15. A PAN could interconnect all the ordinary computing and communications devices that many people have on their desk or carry with them today - or it could serve a more specialized purpose such as allowing the surgeon and other team members to communicate during an operation. (Adapted from Whatis.com).
Personal Communications Services (PCS)
(Context: )
Definition
Sprint’s Personal Communications Services. It operates in the 1.9 MHz band. It is not a cellular service. (600mhz, 900mhz)
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA)
(Context: )
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A PC Card. An international trade association and the standards they have developed for devices, such as modems and external hard disk drives that can be plugged into notebook computers. A PCMCIA card is about the size of a credit card.
Personal Computing
(Context: )
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Devices and device components for desktop computers, notebooks and handheld computers including operating systems, hardware components, productivity software, and security software.
Personal Digital Assistants (PDA)
(Context: )
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a software application or device that assists individuals in managing their personal information and organizing daily tasks.
Personal Identification Number (PIN)
(Context: )
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A short sequence of digits used as a password.
Personal Information (PI)
(Context: )
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“Personal information” means all information that describes, locates or indexes anything about an individual including his real or personal property holdings derived from tax returns, and his education, financial transactions, medical history, ancestry, religion, political ideology, criminal or employment record, or that affords a basis for inferring personal characteristics, such as finger and voice prints, photographs, or things done by or to such individual; and the record of his presence, registration, or membership in an organization or activity, or admission to an institution. “Personal information” shall not include routine information maintained for the purpose of internal office administration whose use could not be such as to affect adversely any data subject nor does the term include real estate assessment information.
Code of Virginia § 2.2-3801
Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
(Context: )
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Any information that permits the identity of an individual to be directly or indirectly inferred, including any information that is linked or linkable to that individual, regardless of whether the individual is a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, visitor to the U.S., or employee or contractor to the Commonwealth.
Personnel
(Context: )
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All COV employees, contractors, and subcontractors, both permanent and temporary.
PERT Chart
(Context: )
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A specific type of project network diagram.
Phablet
(Context: )
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A class of mobile devices combining or straddling between the size format of smartphones and tablets. The term is a portmanteau of the words phone and tablet.
Phishing
(Context: Security)
Definition
A form of criminal activity characterized by attempts to acquire sensitive information fraudulently, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business in an apparently official electronic communication.
Physical Appliance (aka Hardware Appliance)
(Context: Hardware)
Definition
A type of appliance that is a material device which must be racked, powered, and attached to a network in order to perform its intended function.
Physical Offline or Cold Backups
(Context: Hardware, Software, Technology Management)
Definition
The database must be shut down and a copy must be made of all essential data files and other components of the database.
EA-Solution-Data-Availability-Requirements.pdf (virginia.gov)
Physical Online or Hot Backups
(Context: Hardware, Software, Technology Management)
Definition
This method enables the database to be backed up while the database is up and running.
EA-Solution-Data-Availability-Requirements.pdf (virginia.gov)
Physical vs Virtual (OS software)
(Context: Hardware, Software, Virtual Server)
Definition
An event such as a hardware failure will require a complete system restore, starting with the OS, so there is a need to back up the database server OS initially and after any system updates or configuration changes.
EA-Solution-Data-Availability-Requirements.pdf (virginia.gov)
Pilot
(Context: Technology Management)
Definition
1. A pilot or trial is a test of the full production system against a subset of the general intended audience, in order to get a better understanding of how the product will be used, and to refine it.
2. Pilots are reduced/ limited scope deployments in a Production environment.
3. Pilots are often used as the first stage of a new policy or service rollout, and are the more accepted norm in government. Rather than a test or experiment, they are a ‘live’ activity, usually with a small group of real users or citizens receiving the new service.
Pilots should be used when you believe you have an effective solution and are looking to iron out the creases and understand how it works in reality. By offering a partially implemented concept to a limited population, it is possible to see what actually happens. This is useful when preparing to scale a solution to a wider group. Pilots, however, are ultimately measured by success or failure, and there is usually only room to make minor tweaks.3. Proof of concept, prototype, pilot, MVP – what’s in a name? | Nesta
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Plan
(Context: )
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An intended future course of action.
Planned Value
(Context: )
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The authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.
PMBOK
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
(Context: )
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The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming languages, libraries, services, and tools supported by the provider. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, or storage, but has control over the deployed applications and possibly configuration settings for the application-hosting environment.
Platform Web System
(Context: Hardware, Software)
Definition
Any web system that provides enterprise-level capabilities for large-scale or multitenant implementations, including human resource management systems (HRMS), Financial Management Solutions (FMS), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise performance management (EPM), and Content Management Systems (CMS).
Policy
(Context: )
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Are general statements of direction and purpose designed to promote the coordinated planning, practical acquisition, effective development, and efficient use of information technology resources.
COV ITRM STANDARD GOV2000-01.1
Policy Administrator (PA)
(Context: Software)
Definition
This component is responsible for establishing and/or shutting down the communication path between a subject and a resource. It would generate any authentication and authentication token or credential used by a client to access an enterprise resource. It is closely tied to the policy engine and relies on its decision to ultimately allow or deny a session. Some implementations may treat the policy engine and PA as a single service; here, it is divided into its two logical components. The PA communicates with the policy enforcement point when creating the communication path. This communication is done via the control plane.
EA-Solution-Data-Availability-Requirements.pdf (virginia.gov)
Policy Enforcement Point (PEP)
(Context: Software)
Definition
This system is responsible for enabling, monitoring, and eventually terminating connections between a subject and an enterprise resource. PEP is a single logical component in a zero-trust architecture but may be broken into two different components: the client (e.g., agent on user’s laptop) and resource side (e.g., gateway component in front of resource that controls access) or a single portal component that acts as a gatekeeper for communication paths.
EA-Solution-Data-Availability-Requirements.pdf (virginia.gov)
Policy Engine (PE)
(Context: Software)
Definition
This component is responsible for the ultimate decision to grant access to a resource for a given subject. The PE uses enterprise policy as well as input from external sources as input to a trust algorithm to grant, deny, or revoke access to the resource. The PE is paired with the policy administrator component. The PE makes and logs the decision, and the policy administrator executes the decision.
EA-Solution-Data-Availability-Requirements.pdf (virginia.gov)
Portability
(Context: )
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- The ability to pick-up, store and delivery messages everywhere.
- The ease with which a piece of software (or file format) can be “ported”, i.e. made to run on a new platform and/or compile with a new compiler.
Portable Object Adapter (POA)
(Context: )
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Portable Object Adapter standard. An adapter written using IDL
Portfolio
(Context: )
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A collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives. The projects or programs of the portfolio may not necessarily be interdependent or directly related.
PMBOK
Portfolio Management
(Context: )
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The centralized management of one or more portfolios, which includes identifying, prioritizing, authorizing, managing, and controlling projects, programs, and other related work, to achieve specific strategic business objectives.
PMBOK
Post Implementation Report
(Context: )
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Documents the successes and failures of a project and suggest follow up actions. It provides a historical record of the planned and actual budget and schedule. Other selected metrics on the project can also be collected, based upon state organization procedures. The report also contains recommendations for other projects of similar size and scope.
Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3)
(Context: )
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The most common protocol used by MUAs to retrieve mail from a central message store (messaging server). Most commercial Internet Mail post office products include a POP3 server. IMAP is typically a better choice than POP3 for unified messaging.
Power-over-Ethernet is (PoE)
(Context: )
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A technology for wired Ethernet LANs that allows the electrical current, necessary for the operation of each device, to be carried by the data cables rather than by power cords. For PoE to work, the electrical current must go into the data cable at the power-supply end, and come out at the device end, in such a way that the current is kept separate from the data signal so that neither interferes with the other. The current enters the cable by means of a component called an injector. If the device at the other end of the cable is PoE compatible, then that device will function properly without modification. If the device is not PoE compatible, then a component called a picker or tap must be installed to remove the current from the cable. This "picked-off" current is routed to the power jack. To minimize the possibility of damage to equipment in the event of a malfunction, the more sophisticated PoE systems employ fault protection. This feature shuts off the power supply if excessive current or a short circuit is detected. (Adapted from Whatis.com).
Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
(Context: )
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A schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes (or nodes). Schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are to be performed.
PMBOK
Precedence Relationship
(Context: )
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The term used in the precedence diagramming method for a logical relationship. In current usage, however, precedence relationship, logical relationship, and dependency are widely used interchangeably regardless of the diagramming method used.
PMBOK
Predecessor Activity
(Context: )
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The schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end.
PMBOK
Principle of Least Privilege
(Context: Security, Technology Management)
Definition
Principle of Least Privilege: A security concept that limits access by then actor or system requestor to the minimum resources and permissions needed to perform their tasks.
Principles
(Context: )
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High-level fundamental truths, ideas or concepts that frame and contribute to the understanding of the Enterprise Architecture. They are derived from best practices that have been assessed for appropriateness to the Commonwealth Enterprise Architecture.
COTS EA Workgroup, “Commonwealth of Virginia Enterprise Architecture – Conceptual Architecture”, v1.0, February 15, 2001, p 5.
Priority
(Context: )
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The imposed sequences desired with respect to the scheduling of activities within previously imposed constraints.
Privacy
(Context: )
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The rights and desires of an individual to limit the disclosure of individual information to others.
Privacy Officer
(Context: )
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The privacy officer, if required by statute (such as HIPAA) provides guidance on the requirements of state and federal Privacy laws; disclosure of and access to sensitive data; and security and protection requirements in conjunction with the information system when there is some overlap among sensitivity, disclosure, privacy, and security issues.
Private Authenticated Web Application
(Context: Software)
Definition
An application that is used exclusively by Commonwealth Employees.
Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
(Context: )
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A premises voice switch.
Private Cloud
(Context: Technology Management)
Definition
1. The cloud infrastructure is provisioned for exclusive use by a single organization comprising multiple consumers (e.g., business units). It may be owned, managed, and operated by the organization, a third party, or some combination of them, and it may exist on or off- premises. Private cloud options include:
- Self-hosted Private Cloud - a Self-hosted Private Cloud provides the benefit of architectural and operational control, utilizes the existing investment in people and equipment, and provides a dedicated on-premises environment that is internally designed, hosted, and managed.
- Hosted Private Cloud - a Hosted Private Cloud is a dedicated environment that is internally designed, externally hosted, and externally managed. It blends the benefits of controlling the service and architectural design with the benefits of data center outsourcing.
- Private Cloud Appliance - a Private Cloud Appliance is a dedicated environment procured from a supplier that is designed by that supplier with provider/market driven features and architectural control, is internally hosted, and externally or internally managed. It blends the benefits of using predefined functional architecture and lower deployment risk with the benefits of internal security and control.
2. Private Cloud is defined as computing services offered either over the Internet or a private internal network and only to select users instead of the general public. Also called an internal or corporate cloud, private cloud computing gives businesses many of the benefits of a public cloud - including self-service, scalability, and elasticity - with the additional control and customization available from dedicated resources over a computing infrastructure hosted on-premises.
1. Microsoft Cloud Services Foundation Reference Model (CSFRM)
2. EA-Solution-Data-Availability-Requirements.pdf (virginia.gov)
Probability
(Context: )
Definition
The likelihood the risk will occur. Probability is one of the three attributes of risk.
SEI
Procedure
(Context: )
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A collection of steps that the organization is responsible for implementing to ensure that policies and process requirements are met. The agency may use guidelines to develop these procedures.
Process Document
(Context: )
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A detailed description of how to carry out a business process, including the detailed steps and tasks that can be translated to work instructions. It is a guide for employees at all levels, including decision makers and stakeholders, so they may easily understand organizational workflows. It may include all types of documents that support a process, such as:
- policies
- checklists
- tutorials
- forms
- screenshots
- links to other applications
- process maps
Procurement
(Context: )
Definition
The procedures for obtaining goods or services, including all activities from the planning steps and preparation and processing of a requisition, through receipt and acceptance of delivery and processing of a final invoice for payment.
DGS
Procurement Cost
(Context: )
Definition
The total estimated cost of the goods or services being purchased.
Product
(Context: )
Definition
General terms used to define the result of a project delivered to a customer.
Product Description Statement
(Context: )
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A non-formal, high-level document that describes the characteristics of the product/process to be created.
Product Standards
(Context: )
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Are specifications for the use of specific hardware and software relative to the particular component.
Production
(Context: )
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A production environment is an operational environment in which a software application or system is deployed and used by end users to perform their intended tasks. It is the live environment where the software is running and is accessed by actual users.
What Is Production Environment? -phoenixNAP IT Glossary
Productivity Software
(Context: )
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Software typically used by business professionals such as word processing, spreadsheets, presentation slides, web browsers, and plug ins. Also includes lesser-used software such as personal database software, flowcharting, project management.
Productivity Suite
(Context: )
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A bundle of software applications that provide capabilities and features that address core business needs. They typically include the ability to create content--in the form of documents, spreadsheets, and presentations--along with other standard functions, such as contact management, email, calendaring, chat, and conferencing. Applications within a suite may be integrated with each other so that one application can leverage the abilities of a sibling. Suites may include a variety of other offerings, ranging from digital whiteboards, video streaming, and content management to note taking and task automation. For enterprise customers, a suite may also provide the means to meet regulatory requirements with respect to e-discovery, compliance, and data retention.
Program
(Context: )
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A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually. Programs may include elements of related work outside of the scope of the discrete projects in the program.
PMBOK
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
(Context: )
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An event-oriented network analysis technique used to estimate project duration when there is a high degree of uncertainty with the individual activity duration estimates. PERT applies the critical path method to a weighted average duration estimate.
Program Manager
(Context: )
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A centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program’s strategic objectives and benefits.
PMBOK
Progress Analysis
(Context: )
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The evaluation of progress against the approved schedule and the determination of its impact. For cost, this is the development of performance indices.
Progressive Web Application (PWA)
(Context: Software)
Definition
A type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly. They employ an architectural approach called the App Shell Model where service workers store the Basic User Interface or shell of the responsive web design web application in the browser's offline cache, allowing the PWA to maintain native-like use with or without web connectivity.
Project
(Context: )
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A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result.
PMBOK
Project Administration
(Context: )
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Making Project Plan modifications; may result from such things as: new estimates of work still to be done, changes in scope/functionality of end-product(s), resource changes, and unforeseen circumstances. It includes monitoring the various Execution Phase activities, monitoring risks, status reporting, and reviewing/authorizing project changes as needed.
Project Business Objective
(Context: )
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A desired result produced by a project that answers or resolves a business problem.
Project Category
(Context: )
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The grouping of Commonwealth IT projects into four categories for project management governance and oversight purposes. The categories are based on current project risk and complexity, and they determine:
- Project documentation requirements
- Approval levels
- IV&V requirements
- Status reporting requirements
- Oversight committee requirements
- Scope, schedule, budget accuracy thresholds Post-Implementation Review requirements
Project Charter
(Context: )
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A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project, and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
PMBOK
Project Communications Management
(Context: )
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Includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information.
PMBOK
Project Concept Document (PCD)
(Context: )
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The document that is the foundation for making a decision to initiate a project. It describes the project purpose and presents a preliminary business case for pursuing the project. It gives decision makers the opportunity to determine project viability.
Project Cost
(Context: )
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The total cost to provide the business driven, technology-based product or service. The costs include the hardware, software, services, installation, management, maintenance, support, training, and internal staffing costs planned for the project. Internal staffing costs are the apportioned salaries and benefits of the project team members.
Project Cost Management
(Context: )
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Includes the processes involved in planning, estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
PMBOK
Project Description
(Context: )
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An initial, high-level statement describing the purpose, benefits, customer(s), general approach to development and characteristics of a product or service required by the organization.
Project Duration
(Context: )
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The elapsed time from project start date through to project finish date.
Project Human Resource Management
(Context: )
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Includes the processes that organize and manage the project team.
PMBOK
Project Initiation
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The conceptual development phase of a project. A process that leads to approval of the project concept and authorization (through a charter) to begin Detailed Planning. In the Commonwealth of Virginia Project Initiation is also referred to as “Project Planning” or “planning for the project” not to be confused with the Detailed Project Planning.
Project Initiation Approval (PIA)
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A project portfolio status for projects that have received approval of the project’s detailed business case (Project Charter) from the appropriate approval authority. PIA authorizes the agency to begin the Detailed Planning phase of the Commonwealth Project Management lifecycle.
Project Integration Management
(Context: )
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Includes the process and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the Project Management Process Groups.
PMBOK
Project Life Cycle
(Context: )
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A collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization or organizations involved in the project. A life cycle can be documented with a methodology.
PMBOK
Project Management (PM)
(Context: )
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The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
PMBOK
Project Manager
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The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives.
PMBOK
Project Measures of Success
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The measurable, business-oriented indicators that will be used to assess progress made in achieving planned project objectives.
Project Oversight
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A process that employs a variety of quality control, inspection, test measurement, and other observation processes to ensure that planned project objectives are achieved in accordance with an approved plan. Project oversight includes both technical and management oversight. Project oversight is usually done by an independent entity (separate from the project team) trained or experienced in a variety of management and technical review methods.
Project Phase
(Context: )
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A collection of logically related project activities, usually culminating in the completion of a major deliverable.
PMBOK
Project Plan
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A formal, approved document used to guide both project execution and project control. The primary uses of the Project Plan are to document planning assumptions, decisions and project baselines, facilitate communication among stakeholders; and, essentially describe how the project will be executed and controlled.
Project Planning
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Activities to conduct effective initial analysis of business needs and potentially useful technologies required for the development of a detailed business case, incorporating a comprehensive definition of scope and supported by sound financial and cost-based analysis.
Project Portfolio Category
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The grouping of Commonwealth IT projects into a number of broad categories based on the products or end results being produced by the projects. An item may be placed in more than one category.
Project Procurement Management
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Includes the processes to purchase or acquire the products, services, or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work.
PMBOK
Project Quality Management
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Includes the processes and activities of the performing organization that determines quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
PMBOK
Project Risk Management
(Context: )
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Includes the processes concerned with conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis, responses, and monitoring and control on a project.
PMBOK 3RD EDITION
Project Schedule
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The planned dates for performing schedule activities and the planned dates for meeting schedule milestones.
PMBOK
Project Schedule Network Diagram
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Any schematic display of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities. The Diagram is always drawn from left to right to reflect project chronology.
PMBOK
Project Scope
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The work that must be performed to deliver a product, service, or result with the specified features and functions.
PMBOK
Project Scope Management
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Includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required to complete the project successfully.
PMBOK
Project Sponsor
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An individual, usually part of the organization management team, which makes the business case for the project. This individual usually has the authority to define project goals, secure resources, and resolve organizational and priority conflicts.
Project Team Members
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The individuals that report either part-time or full time to the project manager and are responsible for the completion of project tasks.
Project Time Management
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Includes the processes required to accomplish timely completion of the project.
PMBOK
Project Transition Checklist
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A document that ensures that the activities of a project phase have been finished, reviewed, and signed off so that the project may move into the next Phase.
Projectized Organization
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Any organizational structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities, apply resources, and to direct the work of persons assigned to the project.
PMBOK
Proof of Concept (POC)
(Context: Technology Management)
Definition
1. A Proof-of-Concept is to prove or disprove a theory in a non-prod environment using non-prod data. It is a small exercise to test a discrete design idea or assumption. An example of a POC is testing whether one technology talks to another.
2. A Proof of Concept is a general approach that involves testing a certain assumption in order to obtain confirmation that the idea is feasible, viable and applicable in practice. In other words, it shows whether the software product or its separate function is suitable for solving a particular business problem. POC helps to avoid possible technical and other problems in the future and allow you to obtain valuable feedback at an early stage of the development cycle, thus reducing unnecessary risks. It is a term with various interpretations in different areas. POC in software development describes distinct processes with different objectives and participant roles. POC may also refer to partial solutions involving a small number of users acting in business roles to establish whether a system satisfies certain requirements. The overall objective of POC is to find solutions to technical problems, such as how systems can be integrated, or throughput can be achieved through a given configuration. In the business world, POC is how startups demonstrate that a product is financially viable.
3. A proof of concept often involves a small exercise to test the real-world potential of an incomplete idea. This isn’t about delivering the idea, but demonstrating whether it is feasible. It should be used in the early stages when you first have an instinct about an idea. A proof of concept shows if a product, feature or system can be developed, whilst a prototype shows how it will be developed. For example, a proof of concept might be used to test a technical feature of an online service by quickly building a working model.
2. Proof of Concept (POC) - CIO Wiki (cio-wiki.org)
3. Proof of concept, prototype, pilot, MVP – what’s in a name? | Nesta
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Proponent Secretariat Oversight Committee (PSOC)
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The PSOC provides oversight for Information Technology Projects as prescribed by the Project Management Standard. The PSOC validates proposed project business cases and makes recommendations to the CIO on Information Technology Projects proposed for initiation approval. The committee also reviews and recommends Change Control Requests and can accept escalated issues from the IAOC to consider and resolve, or forward their recommendations to the CIO for final resolution.
Proprietary Specification
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A specification that restricts the acceptable product(s) or service(s) to that of one or more manufacturer(s) or vendor(s). A common example would be the use of a “brand name” specification that would exclude consideration of proposed “equals.” Although all sole source specifications are proprietary, all proprietary specifications are not the sole source. Proprietary items may be available from several distributors through competitive bidding.
Protocol
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A set of rules. For example, network protocols are rules that enable connectivity and communication.
Protocol Stack
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Definition
A software subsystem that manages the flow of data on a communications channel according to the rules of a particular protocol, for example the TCP/IP protocol. Called a “stack” because it is typically designed as a hierarchy of layers, each supporting the one above and using the one below.
Prototype
(Context: Technology Management)
Definition
1. A system that tries to simulate the full system or at least a material part of it. May be completely discarded should a production version follow.
2. A prototype is the visible, tangible or functional manifestation of an idea, which you test with others and learn from at an early stage of the development process. For example, a prototype might be used to test an idea for a service touchpoint – the point of interaction between a citizen and public service. This might be a mockup of a website or a role playing exercise between a citizen and frontline employee to test out a service script.
Prototypes should be used when you have a hypothesis about a solution, but there is still uncertainty about how it looks, feels and works. Insights from testing can then be used to improve the idea. By developing and improving the prototype, you can maximize what you learn and refine your idea. This helps you move from a version with little detail or functionality (like a rough draft that illustrates the idea) to a version with much more detail and functionality (giving test-users a better sense of how it works). Prototypes are also a way to engage your stakeholders to develop a shared vision or common ground for a solution.
2. Proof of concept, prototype, pilot, MVP – what’s in a name? | Nesta
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Public Cloud
(Context: General, Hosting Options)
Definition
1. The cloud infrastructure is provisioned for open use by the general public. It may be owned, managed, and operated by a business, academic, or government organization, or some combination of them. It exists on the premises of the cloud provider.
2. Public Cloud is defined as computing services offered by third-party providers over the public Internet, making them available to anyone who wants to use or purchase them. They may be free or sold on-demand, allowing customers to pay only per usage for the CPU cycles, storage, or bandwidth they consume.
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2. EA-Solution-Data-Availability-Requirements.pdf (virginia.gov)
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)