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Slip

Meaning in project management, with examples

/slɪp/verbCommon term

In project management, slip means: Of a date, task or schedule: to move later than planned, usually little by little and often without anyone formally deciding it.

In Turkish: kaymak, sarkmak, gecikmek

How it is used

Very common in status meetings. Dates, milestones and deliveries slip by a week or slip to next month. It is also a noun: schedule slip, a slip of two weeks.

Example sentences

  1. The delivery date has slipped again; the supplier now says the end of May.

  2. If the design review slips by more than a week, the launch will slip too.

Common collocations

  • slip by a week
  • the date slipped
  • schedule slip
  • let the deadline slip
  • behind scheduleLater than planned; not progressing as fast as the schedule says it should.
  • deadlineThe latest date or time by which a task, deliverable or project must be finished.
  • push backTo move a meeting, deadline or event to a later time. In another common sense, it means to resist or argue against a request or decision.
  • bufferExtra time added to a schedule, or extra money or capacity kept aside, to absorb delays and surprises without missing the final date.

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