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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

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B – Project Management Terms Backlog Backlog is a term from the Agile methodology Scrum, but is also used across industries to track every single thing that is needed to complete a product in development. Event chain diagram This is a visual way of demonstrating the relationship between events and tasks and how they impact one another.

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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. Event Chain Diagram: A visualization of project events and how they affect each other. An event chain diagram maps both project risks and project events to identify opportunities as well as threats.