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Project Management Dictionary of Terms

by | reviewed 2023-08-19
This glossary covers all common project management terminology.
A - Acceptance Criteria to Authority | B - Backward Pass to Business Process Manager (BPM) | C - Change to Customer | D - Decision Tree Analysis to Duration | E - Early Finish Date to Event | F - Failure Mode and Effect Analysis to Functional organization | G - Gantt Chart to guidelines | H - Hammock task to Hyperlink | I - i-j notation to ITIL | J - Job Description to Just-In-Time | K - Kaizen to Knowledge | L - Labor, Equipment, Material to Logical Relationship | M - Manage Project Team to Monte Carlo Analysis | N - Near-Critical Activity to Node | O - Operations to Output | P - parametric to Projectized Organization | Q - Qualitative Risk Analysis to Quantitative Risk Analysis | R - Records Management to Root Cause Analysis | S - Saved Search to System | T - Target Completion Date to Triple Constraint | U - Uncontrollable Risks to User Group | V - Validation to Voice of the Customer | W to Z - War Room to Zero Float

B - Backward Pass to Business Process Manager (BPM)

Ball-in-Court (BIC)

A term used to identify the person or role in a workflow or process currently responsible for a specified item or activity.

Bar Chart

Baseline

Baseline Finish Date

Baseline Start Date

Bottom-up Estimating

Budget

Budget at Completion (BAC)

Budget Authority

Budgeted Cost of Work Performed (BCWP)

Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled (BCWS)

Burndown Chart

Business Process Manager (BPM)

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