pareto | | target schedule |
imr | | The actual or estimated time associated with an activity's completion. |
pmp | | sum of project products and services |
activity | | contract where buyer reimburses the seller for cost and a fixed amount |
estimating | | actual cost of work performed |
scope | | chart using time lines that illustrates multiple, time-based activities on a horizontal time scale. |
freeriding | | PERT float |
burnrate | | PM designation from PMI |
client | | project champion |
escalation | | calling upon higher levels of management |
montecarlo | | customer |
contract | | Project Management Office |
acwp | | task |
task | | assessment of the likely quantitative result |
hammock | | Someone that may impact your project |
project | | The read only computer instructions resident within hardware. |
scurve | | A condition where there is no excess time between activities. |
pmi | | significant project event |
reserve | | expansion in original commitment |
estimate | | The rate at which funds or man-hours are being expended on a project. |
pert | | time needed to comp an act |
firmware | | N6 front door for new requirements |
slack | | aggregate activity |
stakeholder | | contigency |
toosoft | | PERT algorithm to calc many outcomes |
sponsor | | histogram ordered by frequency of occurence |
failure | | mutually binding agreement |
workpackage | | Project Management Institute |
scopecreep | | commiting the organization to begin a project |
PMO | | The inability to perform. |
ignore | | activity |
initiation | | A temporary endevor to create a unique product or service |
finishdate | | lowest level of a WBS |
zerofloat | | type of PND |
cpff | | A situation where some project team members do less work than the others. |
baseline | | what most PMs are |
remdur | | handling risk |
gantt | | risk handling |
forwardpass | | Calculating the earliest start dates moving from left to right along a network. |
milestone | | Calculating approximately the probable cost or value. |
critical | | display of cumulative costs, labor hours or other quantities plotted against time. |
crashing | | decreasing total project duration |
mitigate | | activity if delayed will delay some other important activity |