Project Management Glossary Of Terms – D

Damages

Dangle

Data

Data Application

Data Bank

Data Collection

Data Date(DD)

Data Entry Clerk

Data Item Description (“DID”)

Data Processing

Data Refinements

Data Structure Organization

Database

Database Administrator (“DBA”)

Database Management System (“DBMS”)

Date of Acceptance

Day Work Account

DBA

DBM

DBMS

DCE

DCF

DD

Deactivation Plan

Deactivation Procedures

Debriefing

Decentralized

Decision

Decision Documentation

Decision Event

Decision Making

Decision Making Process

Decision Support System

Decision Theory

Decision Tree

Decision Trees

Decision Tree Analysis

Decomposing

Decomposition

Default

Default Values

Defect

Defective

Defects-Per-Hundred-Units

Deficiency

Deficiency List

Definition

Definition Phase

Definitive

Definitive Estimate

Deflection

Degradation

Delay

Delay, compensable

Delaying Resource

Delegating

Delegation

Deliberate Decision Event

Deliverable

Deliverable Breakdown Structure

Deliverable Deadline

Deliverables

Deliverables Management

Delivery

Delphi Technique

Demonstrate

Demonstrated

Demonstrated Past Experience

Demonstration

Demonstration Review

Department

Departmental Budget

Dependability

Dependencies

Dependency

Dependency Arrow

Dependency Diagram

Dependency Links

Dependency Management

Deployment

Deployment Lessons Learned Document

Deployment Plan

Deployment Procedures

Deployment Readiness Review

Deployment View

Depreciation

Descriptive

Design

Design & Development Phase

Design Alternatives

Design Appraisal

Design Authority

Design Baseline

Design Bid Build

Design Brief

Design Build

Design Concept

Design Contingency

Design Contract

Design Control

Design Development

Design Management

Design Management Plan

Design Model

Design of Experiment

Design Review

Design Subsystem

Design Time

Design to Budget

Design to Cost

Design-to Specifications

Desirable Logic

Detail Documentation

Detail Schedule

Detailed Design

Detailed Design Stage

Detailed Engineering

Detailed Estimate

Detailed Planning

Detailed Plans

Detailed Resource Plan

Detailed Schedule

Detailed Technical Plan

Determination

Determine Least Cost for Maximum Results

Deterministic

Deterministic Network

Developed Country

Developer

Developing Country

Development

Development Case

Development Phase

Development Plan

Development process

Deviation

Deviation Permit

Diagram

Diagramming

DID

Differences

Differentials

Differing Site Conditions

Direct Cost

Direct Cost Contingency

Direct Costs

Direct Labor

Direct Project Costs

Directing

Direction

Directive

Director

Discipline

Discipline Maintenance

Discontinuous Activity

Discontinuous Processing

Discount Rate

Discounted Cash Flow (“DCF”)

Discounting

Discrete Effort

Discrete Milestone

Discrete Task

Discrimination

Discussion

Display

Disposal of Materials

Dispute

Disruption

Disruptive

Dissemination

Distinguishing Constraint

Distributed

Distributed Computing Environment (“DCE”)

Distributed Processing

Distribution List

Distribution of Minutes

Distribution, of information

Diversity

Document

Document Control

Document Management

Documentary

Documentation

Documentation Change Notice

Documentation Requirements Description (“DRD”)

Dog and Pony Show

Domain

DRD

DU

Dual Concern Model

Dual Responsibility

Dummy

Dummy Activity

Duration

Duration Compression

Duty and Tax Administration

Dynamic Baseline Model© (“DBM”)

Dynamic Classification