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Beta test: Final user testing of a new soware product, by people who don’t work for the
rm that developed it.
Brooks’s Law: “Adding sta to a late project makes it later.”
Bug: Informal term for a programming error that causes a program to behave incorrectly.
Change management: e process of motivating users to want to use a new system.
Computer-aided soware engineering (CASE): Soware tools designed to help with
development. See lower CASE and upper CASE.
Critical chain project management (CCPM) chart: Project management approach that
integrates task and resource dependencies.
Critical path: e sequence of activities which, if delayed, will delay project completion.
Critical path method (CPM) chart: Net ...