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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

At the turn of the millennium, software projects were mostly organized in a Waterfall way and were reported to have poor results (Standish Group reports). In 2001, a group of software thought-leaders got together and hammered out the Agile Manifesto. Critical Path, Resource Critical Path, Critical Chain, Earned Value, Earned Work, etc.)

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

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Change Authority: The authority (an individual or a group of individuals) who can authorize a change request in a project. Critical Chain Method: A method for scheduling projects with uncertain deadlines and limited resources. A network diagram is a critical tool for project scheduling. to analyze a network diagram.