| pareto | | target schedule |
| imr | | The actual or estimated time associated with an activity's completion. |
| pmp | | sum of project products and services |
| activity | | contract where buyer reimburses the seller for cost and a fixed amount |
| estimating | | actual cost of work performed |
| scope | | chart using time lines that illustrates multiple, time-based activities on a horizontal time scale. |
| freeriding | | PERT float |
| burnrate | | PM designation from PMI |
| client | | project champion |
| escalation | | calling upon higher levels of management |
| montecarlo | | customer |
| contract | | Project Management Office |
| acwp | | task |
| task | | assessment of the likely quantitative result |
| hammock | | Someone that may impact your project |
| project | | The read only computer instructions resident within hardware. |
| scurve | | A condition where there is no excess time between activities. |
| pmi | | significant project event |
| reserve | | expansion in original commitment |
| estimate | | The rate at which funds or man-hours are being expended on a project. |
| pert | | time needed to comp an act |
| firmware | | N6 front door for new requirements |
| slack | | aggregate activity |
| stakeholder | | contigency |
| toosoft | | PERT algorithm to calc many outcomes |
| sponsor | | histogram ordered by frequency of occurence |
| failure | | mutually binding agreement |
| workpackage | | Project Management Institute |
| scopecreep | | commiting the organization to begin a project |
| PMO | | The inability to perform. |
| ignore | | activity |
| initiation | | A temporary endevor to create a unique product or service |
| finishdate | | lowest level of a WBS |
| zerofloat | | type of PND |
| cpff | | A situation where some project team members do less work than the others. |
| baseline | | what most PMs are |
| remdur | | handling risk |
| gantt | | risk handling |
| forwardpass | | Calculating the earliest start dates moving from left to right along a network. |
| milestone | | Calculating approximately the probable cost or value. |
| critical | | display of cumulative costs, labor hours or other quantities plotted against time. |
| crashing | | decreasing total project duration |
| mitigate | | activity if delayed will delay some other important activity |