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  • Schedules in project management consists of a list of a project's terminal elements with intended start and finish dates.
  • Scientific management is a theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflow processes, improving labor productivity.
  • Scope of a project in project management is the sum total of all of its products and their requirements or features.
  • Scope creep refers to uncontrolled changes in a project's scope. This phenomenon can occur when the scope of a project is not properly defined, documented, or controlled. It is generally considered a negative occurrence that is to be avoided.
  • Scrum is an iterative incremental process of software development commonly used with agile software development. Despite the fact that "Scrum" is not an acronym, some companies implementing the process have been known to adhere to an all capital letter expression of the word, i.e. SCRUM.
  • Six Sigma is a business management strategy, originally developed by Motorola, that today enjoys widespread application in many sectors of industry.
  • Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.
  • Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is any logical process used by a systems analyst to develop an information system, including requirements, validation, training, and user ownership. An SDLC should result in a high quality system that meets or exceeds customer expectations, within time and cost estimates, works effectively and efficiently in the current and planned Information Technology infrastructure, and is cheap to maintain and cost-effective to enhance.
  • Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed.

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