Category: Project Management Definitions
The Project Management Network Diagram – An Example By Brian Denis Egan, B.Sc, M.Sc., M.B.A., PMP – Global Knowledge Course Director The PM Network Diagram includes the same information in the PMBOK Process Groups...
An Accurate Definition of a Project in Project Management By The Office of Government Commerce – OGC, UK A project is a unique set of co-ordinated activities, with definite starting and finishing points, undertaken...
What Are the Contents of the Project Brief? (#2 in the series The Project Brief) By The Office of Government Commerce – OGC, UK The following is a suggested list of contents, which should...
Purpose of the Project Brief (#1 in the series The Project Brief) By The Office of Government Commerce – OGC, UK The purpose of the project brief is to provide a firm foundation for...
Work Breakdown Structure – WBS (#4 in the series How to Plan and Organize a Project) By Michael D. Taylor “A Work Breakdown Structure is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be...
Definition of Lean Thinking By Oakleigh Consulting Ltd Lean thinking started with Toyota on their production line in Japan and now is increasingly being adopted by other organisations in other sectors, for example the...
The Governance Process By John Filicetti The Governance process entails creating a project portfolio workspace to: Collect and manage project selection information Collect and manage project status information to evaluate projects in progress Collect...
The Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) for Building Projects (#12 in the Hut Project Management for Construction) By Chris Hendrickson The Construction Industry Institute has developed rating indexes for different types of projects to...
What Is Fast–tracking in Project Management? Fast–tracking (in Project Management) is reducing the duration of a project usually by overlapping phases or activities originally planned to be to done sequentially. It is the process...
What is Exception Report? Exception Report is a focused report drawing attention to instances where planned and actual results are expected to be, or are already, significantly different. Note: an exception report is usually...