Deliverable

Definition

Deliverable in plain English

Think of building a house from a nested checklist: rooms break into walls, walls into tasks, and every child line has to add up to the parent — miss a line and something never gets built, add a random deck and you've snuck in unpaid work. Deliverable is how PMP keeps that checklist honest. Hold onto this precise job description: Any unique and verifiable product, result, or capability required to be produced to complete a process, phase, or project. Dependency, discretionary. On a stem, name whether Deliverable is about timing, ownership, measurement, or delivery style — then eliminate the answer that borrows a cousin concept from the wrong phase.

Related Project Management Professional terms

• Variance at Completion (VAC)
• Capacity (adaptive)
• Accepted deliverables
• Activity
• Adaptive life cycle
• ADKAR Change Model
• Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Definition of Done (DoD)
• Analogous estimating
• Angoff method