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  1. What is Change Request?
    During a project, there arise situations when changes in the project are to be made. the ...
  2. What is Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary?
    The activities and tasks associated with the project are decomposed hierarchically in a work breakdown structure. ...
  3. What is Knowledge Management?
    Knowledge is divided into two categories; tactic knowledge which is difficult to express e.g. beliefs, experience ...
  4. What is Resource Breakdown Structure?
    The resources needed to carry out a project efficiently must be identified and acquired. different activities ...
  5. What is Information Management?
    Information regarding different components of the project e.g. resources, tasks, schedule, costs etc. must be transferred ...
  6. What is Quality Report?
    Although it is important to provide the deliverables to the customer and complete the project on ...
  7. What is Root Cause Analysis?
    Different issues and problems arise during a project. problems can be related to quality defect, deflection ...
  8. What is Trend Analysis?
    It happens normally that a problem re-occurs during the project or the same problem occurs in ...
  9. What is Variance Analysis?
    Although a project is planned before start and the project manager along with his/her project team ...
  10. What is Integrated Change Control?
    Changes in the project are inevitable. the initiated changes must be managed and controlled effectively. a ...
  11. What is Autocratic Decision Making?
    During a project, decisions are to be made at every step. different tools and techniques can ...
  12. What is Multi Criteria Decision Analysis?
    Situations during a project arise when tough decisions are to be made. although decisions are made ...
  13. What is Questionnaire?
    The requirements of the project must be determined and communicated. to identify the requirements, data should ...
  14. What is Benchmarking?
    Benchmarking is a process that enables to compare the performance (products, services, processes etc.) with another ...
  15. What is Voting?
    During a project, decisions are to be made at every step. different tools and techniques can ...
  16. What is Affinity Diagram?
    When the requirements of the project are collected, they have to be presented in a way ...
  17. What is Nominal Group Technique?
    When brainstorming, a large number of ideas are generated as brainstorming focuses on quantity rather than ...
  18. What is Context Diagram?
    After defining scope and collecting project requirements, the scope and requirements must be modelled or diagrammed. ...
  19. What is Prototyping?
    When the requirements are established, it is better to develop a model of the requirements in ...
  20. What is Storyboarding?
    Prototyping is a method that is used to experiment on the design or a model of ...
  21. What is Requirements Documentation?
    A project's requirements must be established before the project starts. these requirements should be documented. requirements ...
  22. What is Functional Requirements?
    Requirements can be categorized by an organization into two categories; business requirements and technical requirements. further ...
  23. What is Non-Functional Requirements?
    The requirements of the product or service is broadly classified into two groups. these groups are ...
  24. What is Product Analysis?
    Products or services associated to the project must be identified and designed. a way to define ...
  25. What is Scope Statement?
    In the planning phase of the project, the most important thing is to define the project ...
  26. What is Activity Attributes?
    After the scope of the project is defined, it is necessary to divide the overall statement ...
  27. What is Assumption Log?
    When a project is carried out, there are some assumptions that must be taken into consideration. ...
  28. What is Decomposition?
    The project related activities must be defined clearly in order to perform them efficiently and successfully ...
  29. What is On-Demand Scheduling?
    Scheduling provides the direction on how and when the project associated activities must be performed and ...
  30. What is Schedule Management?
    Just as important it is to plan the project schedule, it is also important to implement, ...
  31. What is Rolling Wave Planning?
    Planning the project is the most important step in the life cycle of a project. planning ...
  32. What is Sequencing Activities?
    After the activities associated with the project are defined, their sequence must be established. the process ...
  33. What is Precedence Diagramming Method?
    When the project's schedule is to be developed, the most important thing is to identify the ...
  34. What is Finish to Start?
    In a project schedule, relationship between the project related tasks and activities must be developed. however, ...
  35. What is Finish to Finish?
    When the project's schedule is to be developed, relationship between the project activities are established first. ...
  36. What is Start to Start?
    It is necessary to understand the relationship between the activities associated with the project when the ...
  37. What is Start to Finish?
    Important of relationships in a project schedule needs to be considered. it is necessary to understand ...
  38. What is Internal Dependencies?
    Activities associated with the project are interdependent and linked together. a dependency is basically when one ...
  39. What is Lead?
    While scheduling a project's activities, it is important to understand the relationship between the activities i.e. ...
  40. What is Lag?
    The project related activities are defined and the relation between the activities are established and understood. ...
  41. What is Project Schedule Network Diagram?
    A project's activities must be defined before starting the project. also, the relationship between the activities ...
  42. What is Analogous Estimating?
    When the activities associated with the project are defined, their duration estimates and cost estimates must ...
  43. What is Parametric Estimating?
    It is important to estimate the costs and activity durations after the project is decomposed into ...
  44. What is Three Point Estimate?
    A project is decomposed into its associated activities in order to estimate the activity durations and ...
  45. What is Bottom-Up Estimating?
    A number of techniques can be used to estimate costs and activities durations after the project ...
  46. What is Reserve Analysis?
    After estimating the duration and cost estimates, it is important to consider the situations of uncertainty. ...
  47. What is Duration Estimate?
    The project is usually decomposed into the associated activities and tasks. each activity must take time ...
  48. What is Project Team Assignment?
    When the activities are defined and the resources needed for the project are determined, the next ...
  49. What is Resource Calendar?
    As a number of different resources are involved in a project, they can sometimes be unavailable ...
  50. What is Resource Requirements?
    After the activities are defined, the resources needed for the project are determined. this is called ...
  51. What is Critical Path Method?
    Usually network diagrams for large projects are complex and involve a large number of activities. a ...
  52. What is Resource Optimization?
    As a project is a resource-limited endeavor, the available resources for a project must be utilized ...
  53. What is Resource Smoothing?
    A project can need more resources than available. this means that the resources are limited for ...
  54. What is What-If Scenario?
    While scheduling the project, different data analysis techniques can be used. one of the technique is ...
  55. What is Simulation?
    While scheduling the project, different data analysis techniques can be used. one of the technique is ...
  56. What is Schedule Compression?
    Sometimes, the developed project schedules must be changed in order to cope up with any uncertain ...
  57. What is Crashing?
    Uncertainties can happen in the project. due to these uncertainties, the project schedule must be adjusted. ...
  58. What is Fast Tracking?
    In order to cope up with the uncertainties in the project, the project schedule is changed ...
  59. What is Agile Release Planning?
    Agile approach is basically an iterative approach that performs the tasks in a number of iterations. ...
  60. What is Schedule Data?
    The development, management and control of schedule requires some important information or data which is called ...