Practice Standard for Project Configuration Management

Glossary

1. Definitions

Many of the words defined here have broader, and in some cases, different dictionary definitions. The definitions use the following conventions:

• Terms used as part of the definitions and that are defined in the glossary are shown in italics.
  • When the same glossary term appears more than once in a given definition, only the first occurrence is italicized.
  • In some cases, a single glossary term consists of multiple words (e.g., configuration management planning).
  • In many cases, there are multiple, consecutive glossary terms within a given definition. For example, duration estimate denotes two separate glossary entries, one for “duration” and another for “estimate.” (There are even some definitions with a string of consecutive ...