- Redundancy dependency error
- Listing more
than immediate predecessor(s) for an activity.
- Resource histogram
- Portrays the
effort of the people who will be working on the project in a time-scaled format.
- Resource leveling
- The process of smoothing the peaks and valleys in the
allocation of team members' effort to the project.
- Responsibility assignment
matrix (RAM)
- A structure that relates the project team members to the WBS to
ensure that each element of the project's scope of work is assigned to a
responsible individual or role.
- Risk assessment
- Enables the project manager to
reduce the probability and/or impact of unplanned events that could threaten the
success of a project.
- Risk event
- Potential events that may impact the
successful outcome of the project.
- Risk identification
- Determining which risks might affect the project and documenting their characteristics.
- Risk management
- According to the PMBOK® Guide
, project risk management includes the processes concerned with
identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risk.
- Risk management plan
- Documented procedures to be used to manage risk during the life of the project.
- Risk response
- Defining the team's decision and proactive approach to managing
risks. Responses include: accept, avoid, or mitigate.
- Risk symptom
- Indirect manifestations of actual risk events.
Also called triggers.
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- Schedule
- Portrays the sequence in which activities will occur across timer.
- Scope creep
- Accepting scope changes without a change control process.
- Scope management
- According to the PMBOK® Guide , project scope management ensures that the
project includes all of the work required, and only the work required, to
complete the project successfully.
- Senior management
- This role is responsible for aligning the project objective with the strategy of the organization.
- Slack
- see float
- Soft logic
- see discretionary dependency
- Stakeholder
- Anyone that has a vested interest in the success of a project.
- Standard operating procedure (SOP)
- Are guidelines on how to conduct daily business following standardized
processes. The SOP's are company specific, sometimes industry specific and may
also be in fulfillment of government regulations.
- Start-to-start dependency
- According to the PMBOK® Guide , the predecessor activity must start before the
successor(s) can start.
- Strategic Plan
- Is a documented summary, focused on an
organization's future that defines fundamental decisions and actions that shape
and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it. This
management tool, if used effectively, will include a mission, vision, values,
goals, objectives, roles and responsibilities, timelines, etc. Each major
corporate project will support the objectives defined in this plan.
- Subject matter expert (SME)
- One who possesses or demonstrates expertise in a particular area.
SMEs are critical to determine the appropriate steps and to establish time estimates to take when developing a project plan.
- Success criteria
- Those things that equate to a successful project, for example, "with acceptance
by the customer," "with minimum or mutually agreed on scope changes," etc. The
criteria are typically defined by the project manager and the project team.
- Successor
- An activity that follows another activity and
is related to it by a dependency link.
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- Threshold
- An acceptable or tolerable level of variance that
may include an upper and lower control limit.
- Time management
- According to the
PMBOK® Guide , project time management includes all the processes required to
ensure timely completion of the project.
- Top-down estimating
- Using the actual
cost of a previous similar project as the basis for estimating the costs for the
project.
- Total effort
- Effort the team as a whole will contribute. The sum of
the individual effort estimate.
- Trigger
- see risk symptom
- Triple Constraint
- The competing parameters of a project,
scope/quality, time, and cost that a project manager must balance in
order to meet customer expectations and complete a successful project.
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- Variance
- Any difference between the plan and the actual
or expected results.
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- Work breakdown structure (WBS)
- A hierarchical list or diagram representing all
the activities that must be completed in order to finish the project.
According to the PMBOK® Guide , the WBS is a deliverable-oriented grouping of project
elements that organizes and defines the total scope of the project.
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