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125 Project Management Buzzwords

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hours, personnel needed, and/or tasks) to ensure that a project can be completed on time and within budget. Change Control A formal process of documenting, reviewing, approving, and managing a change to a project’s scope, schedule, budget, or quality parameters. Feasibility Study An analysis of a project’s viability.

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Different Project Management Terms Beginners Should Know

ProProfs Project Management

The shortest time estimated to complete a specific project task or activity is known as optimistic duration. Performance Measurement Baseline. This creates a point of comparison of all the other baselines to evaluate project performance. Cost Estimation. Overall Change Control. X-Bar Control Charts.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev).

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Bottleneck: In project management terms, a bottleneck is any constraint that restricts the movement of a process. With this approach, the project's cost and/or duration are calculated by adding the cost/duration of all its constituent activities. Contingency Reserves are commonly used for projects with known risks.

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Overview of the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition – Lesson 3 Transcription

MPUG

We invite you to join in today with questions and comments by using the chat feature in the GoToWebinar control panel. Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. When we execute the plan, when we monitor and control the plan, what are we trying to do? Then planning.

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