- LF
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 See Late Finish
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- LFD
- See Late Finish Date
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- Liabilities
- Amounts owed under obligations for goods and services received and other assets acquired; includes accruals of amounts earned but not yet due and progress payments due on contracts. [D02953]
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PMDT |
- License
- A legal document that allows persons or organizations to perform certain functions. [D02954]
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PMDT |
- Lien
- A claim to some property that a lender attaches to a borrower. [D02955]
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PMDT |
- Life Cycle
- See Project Life Cycle. [D02938]
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- The phases that a project goes through from concept through completion. The nature of the project changes during each phase. [D03722]
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- Life Cycle Cost ("LCC")
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 The total cost of a system or facility over its full life, including the cost of development, acquisition, operation, support and disposal. [D02956]
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- The sum of all costs over the useful life of a building, system or product. It includes the cost of design, construction, acquisition, operation, maintenance, and salvage (or resale) value, if any. [D03526]
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- The total cost of implementation and ownership of a system over its useful life. It includes the cost of development, acquisition, operation, maintenance, support, and where applicable, disposal. [D04130]
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CSM |
- Life Cycle Costing
- The concept of including acquisition, operating, and disposal costs when evaluating various alternatives. [D00934]
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PMK96 |
- Consideration of all costs when designing a projectês product, including costs from concept, through implementation, and start up to dismantling. It is typically used for making decisions between alternatives. [D00933]
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PMK87 |
- When evaluating alternatives, Life-Cycle Costing is the concept of including acquisition, operating and disposal costs. [D00936]
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WST |
- A combination of initial acquisition cost and user supporting costs. Initial acquisition cost is the total price of acquisition including, where applicable, site, design, construction, management, inspection, financing, equipment, testing, spare parts and initial startup or occupancy. User supporting costs are those required during the useful life of the product, including operating, maintenance, repair, replacement, and logistics expense to the user. Also referred to as Overall Cost, a term typically used in Value Management. [D03631]
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SU |
- Life Cycle Model
- A framework containing the processes, activities, and tasks involved in the development, operation, and maintenance of a software product, spanning the life of the system from the definition of its requirements to the termination of its use. [D00935]
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- Life Cycle Stage Boundaries
- The starting and ending points for the project. [D02200]
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PMMJ97 |
- Life Cycle Time Frame
- The time span covering the whole project life cycle. [D02939]
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RMW |
- Life Cycle, unified process
- The Unified Process life cycle for software development consists of four phases, namely: Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition. Each phase is concluded by a major milestone. That is:
- Inception specifies the end-product vision, its business case and the scope of the project. It is concluded by achieving the Lifecycle Objective Milestone.
- Elaboration involves the planning of necessary activities and required resources, specifying the features and designing the architecture. It is concluded by achieving the Lifecycle Architecture Milestone.
- Construction involves building the product and evolving the vision, the architecture and the plans until the product, i.e. the completed vision, is ready for delivery to its user community. It is concluded by achieving the Initial Operational Capability Milestone.
- Transition involves transitioning the product to the care, custody and control of the users, including manufacturing, training, support and maintenance until users are satisfied. It is concluded by achieving the Product Release Milestone.
[D04853]
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RUP |
- LIFO
- See Last In, First Out
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- Likelihood
- Another term for probability. [D00937]
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RMW |
- The probability of a risk occurring. Used in risk analysis as one part of the assessment of a risk the other being impact. [D03866]
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PNG |
- See Probability [D05015]
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- Limitation of Funds
- The value of funds available for expenses beyond which no work could be authorized for performance during the specified period. [D00938]
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PMK87 |
- Limitations
- Boundaries and restrictions. [D02940]
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RMW |
- Limited Partnership
- A partnership that limits each partner to the share of his or her investment. [D02957]
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PMDT |
- Limiting Quality ("LQ")
- The maximum defective in product quality (or the worst product quality) that the consumer is willing to accept at a specified probability of occurrence. [D00939]
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- Limits of Authority ("LOA")
- A corporate policy that provides guidelines for issuing proposals and bidding in the interest of risk detection and evaluation. [D02958]
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PMDT |
- Line
- An authority relationship in organizational positions where one person (a manager) has responsibility for the activities of another person (the subordinate). [D02959]
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PMDT |
- Line and Staff
- Two kinds of functions in an organization. Line refers to those functions that have a direct responsibility for accomplishing the end purpose of the organization. Staff refers to those members who perform purely advisory functions. [D02960]
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PMDT |
- Line Item
- The smallest unit of product whose status is tracked in a status system. [D00940]
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PMK87 |
- Line Manager
- See Functional Manager. [D00941]
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- The manager of any group that makes a product or performs a service. [D00942]
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WST |
- Line of Balance ("LOB")
- A graphical display of scheduled units versus actual units over a given set of critical schedule control points on a particular day. The line of balance technique is oriented towards the control of production activities. [D02941]
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PMDT |
- Line of Credit
- Credit that remains available to a customer at all times. An agreement between a bank and a borrower to borrow up to a specified amount. [D02963]
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PMDT |
- Line Organization
- A hierarchic company organization. [D00943]
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NPMT |
- Line/Functional Manager
- Those responsible for activities in one of the primary functions of the organization, such as production or marketing, with whom the project manager must relate in achieving the projectês goals. [D00944]
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PMK87 |
- Linear
- Involving a single dimension, with emphasis on a straight line. [D02962]
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Webster |
- Linear Responsibility Chart
- A special type of matrix in which the rows list the series of functions, activities, or tasks in some logic sequence, such as the project life cycle, and the adjacent columns identify the positions, titles or people involved. At the intersection of each adjacent column and its line item is placed a distinguishing symbol representing the level or type of responsibility involved by that person. [D02186]
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RMW |
- Link
- A dependency between tasks that specifies when a task begins or ends relative to another task. [D00945]
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MSP98 |
- See Logical Relationship. [D00946]
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- Linkage
- See Link. [D02964]
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- Linked Bar Chart
- A bar chart drawn to show dependency links between activities/tasks. [D02965]
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RMW |
- Linked Projects
- A bar chart showing dependency links between activities on different projects. [D03867]
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PNG |
- Links
- See Dependency Links. [D00947]
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- Liquidated Damages
- A stipulation in a contract of a monetary amount that must be paid by the contractor if the contractor fails to deliver supplies or perform services as specified in the contract or any subsequent modification. Payments are in lieu of actual damages related to the failure. [D03527]
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GAT |
- Lists, project
- The tabulations of information organized in meaningful fashion. [D00948]
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PMK87 |
- LML
- See Lowest Management Level
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- LOA
- See Limits of Authority
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- LOB
- See Line of Balance
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- Local Area Network ("LAN")
- A computer network located at a user's establishment within a limited geographical area. A LAN typically consists of one or more server machines providing services to a number of client workstations. [D04854]
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