A Comprehensive Glossary of Project Management Terms

Aa

• Acceptance Criteria
• Adaptive Project Framework (APF)
• Aggregate Project Plan (APP)
• Agile
• Artifact
• Assumptions

Bb

• Baseline
• Backlog
• BOSCARD
• Burn Rate
• Balance Scorecard
• Business Case

Cc

• Contingency Plan
• Case Study
• Constraint
• CAPEX (Capital Expenditure)
• Change control
• Change freeze
• Change management plan
• Change request
• Closing Phase
• Communications Management Plan
• Cost Management Plan
• Cost Overrun (Budget overrun)
• Cost Performance Index (CPI)
• Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)
• Critical Path
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Change Management

Dd

• Deliverable
• Dependency

Ee

• Earned Value
• Execution Phase
• Extreme Programming (XP)

Ff

• Fast Tracking
• Feasibility study
• Forecasting

Gg

• Goal Setting
• Gantt Chart

Hh

• Human Resource Plan

Ii

• Initiation phase
• Iteration

Jj

• Just in Time (JIT)

Kk

• Knowledge Area
• Kanban
• Kickoff Meeting
• Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

Ll

• Life Cycle
• Lead Time
• Lean Production

Mm

• Milestone

Nn

• Net present value (NPV)

Oo

• Objectives

Pp

• Project Portfolio
• Program Manager
• Performance Indicator
• Planning phase
• PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environments)
• Project
• Project Proposal
• Priority Matrix

Qq

• Quality Assurance (QA)
• Quality Control (QC)

Rr

• Risk Mitigation
• Risk
• Resource Management
• Risk Register

Ss

• Scope Statement
• Six Sigma
• Schedule Management Plan
• Scheduling
• Scope
• Scope Creep
• Scrum
• Sprint
• Stakeholder

Tt

• Timeline
• Test

Uu

• Use Case
• User Acceptance Test (UAT)

Vv

• Virtual Teams
• Value stream mapping

Ww

• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Workaround
• Waterfall Methodology

Xx

• X-bar control chart

Yy

Zz