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August 12, 2002
APPENDICES
A. GLOSSARY
This section provides definitions of terms, abbreviations and acronyms used in this document.
Absence period
A period of time when employee can not participate in projects for some reason.
The possible reasons of absence are defined in the administration console
Approving
person
Refers to the member of the organization who is enabled to approve an order
/release the project.
Cost type
Attribute of each order to classify the budget items which are not related to
<internal resources> or <external resources>. The cost for these two resource types
is determined automatically after resource assignment. The definition of cost types
is located in a <system directory>
Employee (e)
Member of the organization delivering services to the projects
Employee
profile, or
personal profile
System repository that is maintained by each member of organization to describe
the skills and certificates of each person.
Occupancy, or
occupancy value
Percentage of working time (planned and effective) a member of the organization is
dedicated to a certain project / project phase. Based on the definition of standard
working hours (located in a <system directory>) the system computes this value
after requesting skills, assigning persons or entering timesheets.
Occupancy
period of
employee in
project
A period of time during which <employee> participate in a <project>. Occupancy
period is defined by start and finish date
Order
Storage for all planned activity like resources, budgets and phases that is linked to
a contractual agreement between delivering organization and client. After
termination of the plan phase the order has to be approved by an appropriate
authority in the organization. After approval the order transforms to a <project>,
the entity to track all information for the current running project activities.
Order budget
Amount of money that is planned for a <project>. Order budget includes several
types of costs: <internal resources> costs, <external resources> costs and other
costs. Other costs are defined in <system directory>
Order closure
Order closure is a process during which a status of order changes from
“CURRENT” to “CLOSED”. Usually participants of this process are project
manager and project coordinator
Order type
Attribute of each order to classify the order/project contents and which determines
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