Periscope 101 Profits: Business Strategies Pro Course

Change control is the process by which a proposed change to a project's agreed baseline is recorded, assessed for its effect on scope, schedule, cost and risk, and then approved, rejected or deferred by a person holding the authority to do so.

Earned value management measures project performance by comparing the budgeted value of work completed with the value planned to be complete by now and with the cost incurred, producing variances and indices that forecast the final cost and date.

Agile is a family of delivery approaches that build a product in short iterations, each producing something usable, so that plans are corrected by what was learned rather than defended against it.