Compliance
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Definition
Adherence to a mandate — regulation, law, standard, contract term, or organizational policy.
Compliance in plain English
A project without a front door for changes gets graffiti on the blueprint: someone "just adds" a feature, nobody updates cost or risk, and closeout becomes a blame meeting. Compliance is how PMP keeps changes visible, decided, and traceable. Hold onto this precise job description: Adherence to a mandate — regulation, law, standard, contract term, or organizational policy. On a stem, name whether Compliance is about timing, ownership, measurement, or delivery style — then eliminate the answer that borrows a cousin concept from the wrong phase.
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