Project management glossary


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The glossary gives brief explanations of the most important terms in project management.

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Activity
Approval
Backlog
Baseline
Buffer
Business case
Change Management
Change request
Change request management
Claim management
Communication
Constraint
Control
Cost budgeting
Cost estimate
Critical path
Current-State Assessment
Customer
Dependencies
Duration
Effort
Effort tracking
Event
Force Field Analysis
Gantt chart
HTML Software and Resources
Kanban
Kick-off meeting
Knowledge management
Leadership
Lessons Learned
Matrix organization
Maturity
Milestone
Mind Map
Multi project management
Network analysis
Network plan technique
Order
Pareto principle
Percent complete
Plan/actual comparison
Predecessor
Problem solving
Product Breakdown Structure
Project
Project audit
Project budget
Project calculation
Project controlling
Project culture
Project environment
Project leadership
Project management
Project management office (PMO)
Project management process
Project management system
Project manager
Project network diagram
Project objective
Project organization
Project phase
Project plan
Project planning
Project portfolio
Project process
Project progress
Project report
Project schedule
Project staff
Project stakeholder
Project structuring process
Project team
Project triangle
Quality management
Quotation
Resource
Resource planning
Responsibility
Retrospective
Return on Investment ROI
Risk
Risk management
Scheduling
Scope
Scope Statement
Scrum
Service Phases
Soft skills
Sprint
Stakeholder Analysis
Stakeholder management
Stakeholder Theory
Standard
Statement of work
Steering committee
Successor
Target-State Analysis
Task
Time
Time management
Time tracking
Tree diagram
Work breakdown structure
Work package
Work-back Project Plan