Earned Schedule (ES) is an extension to Earned Value Management (EVM), which renames two traditional measures, to indicate clearly they are in units of currency or quantity, not time.
Earned Value Management (EVM) is a project management technique for measuring project progress in an objective manner, with a combination of measuring scope, schedule, and cost in a single integrated system.
Enterprise modeling is the process of understanding an enterprise business and improving its performance through creation of enterprise models. This includes the modelling of the relevant business domain (usually relatively stable), business processes (usually more volatile), and Information technology
Estimation in project management is the processes of making accurate estimates using the appropriate techniques.
Event chain diagram : diagram that show the relationships between events and tasks and how the events affect each other.
Event chain methodology is an uncertainty modeling and schedule network analysis technique that is focused on identifying and managing events and event chains that affect project schedules.
Extreme project management (XPM) refers to a method of managing very complex and very uncertain projects.
F
Float in a project network is the amount of time that a task in a project network can be delayed without causing a delay to subsequent tasks and or the project completion date.
Focused improvement in Theory of Constraints is the ensemble of activities aimed at elevating the performance of any system, especially a business system, with respect to its goal by eliminating its constraints one by one and by not working on non-constraints.
Fordism, named after Henry Ford, refers to various social theories. It has varying but related meanings in different fields, and for Marxist and non-Marxist scholars.
G
Henry Gantt was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant, who developed the Gantt chart in the 1910s.
Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. It illustrate the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project. Terminal elements and summary elements comprise the work breakdown structure of the project.
Goal or objective consists of a projected state of affairs which a person or a system plans or intends to achieve or bring about — a personal or organizational desired end-point in some sort of assumed development. Many people endeavor to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines
Goal setting involves establishing specific, measurable and time targeted objectives
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT), is a network analysis technique that allows probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimated.
H
Hammock activity is a schedule (project management) or project planning term for a grouping of subtasks that “hangs” between two end dates it is tied to. (Or the two end-events it is fixed to.)
HERMES is a Project Management Method developed by the Swiss Government, based on the German V-Modell. The first domain of application was software projects.
I
Integrated Master Plan (IMP) is an event-based, top level plan, consisting of a hierarchy of Program Events.
ISO 10006 is a guidelines for quality management in projects, is an international standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization.
Iterative and Incremental development is a cyclic software development process developed in response to the weaknesses of the waterfall model. It starts with an initial planning and ends with deployment with the cyclic interaction in between
K
Kickoff meeting is the first meeting with the project team and the client of the project.
No comments:
Post a Comment