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Project Manager : The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives. Project Management : The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements. Project Management Office : A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques. Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) : A hierarchical representation of the project organization, which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities. Organizational Project Management Maturity : The level of an organization’s ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable, controllable, and reliable manner. Program : A group of related projects, subprograms, and program activities that are managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually. Program Management : The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a program to meet the program requirements and to obtain benefits and control not available by managing projects individually. Portfolio : Projects, programs, sub-portfolios, and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives. Portfolio Management : The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives. Sponsor : A person or group that provides resources and support for the project, program, or portfolio, and is accountable for enabling success. Stakeholder : An individual, group, or organization that may affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by a decision, activity, or outcome of a project, program, or portfolio. Oversight : Watchful and responsible care of something or some activity; regulatory supervision. Internal Management Plan : The internal document that defines NSF strategy for conducting project oversight and assurance, managing NSF risk, and providing project funding. Management : The act of controlling and making decisions about an operation, organization or project; the act or process of deciding how to use something; the judicious use of means to accomplish an end. Review and Recommend : The act of carefully looking at or examining the quality or condition of something AND then suggesting that someone taken action or do something. Assistance :