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Page Content Index Glossary Notes • We use US spelling - e.g. "program" = "programme" • The list below shows the range of definitions on each page; select the range containing your definition! a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Letter From To A ABC Acquisition Acquisition Control Activity File Activity ID Administrative Administrative Change Anecdotal Anomaly Arrow Arrow Diagram Authority Authority for Expenditure Award Letter B BAC Baseline Plan Baseline Review Beta testing Bid Brainstorming Branching Logic Build Build, Own, Operate, Transfer Bypassing C C/SCSC CASE (2) Cash Change Management Change Management Plan Closure CM Communication Plan, Strategic Communication Plan, Tactical Computer Aided System Engineering Computer Cost Applications Configuration Configuration Audit Considerations Consistency Contingency Plan file:///OS922-10GB/Desktop%20Folder/PMGloss_32_PDF/index.htm (1 of 4) [1/13/2003 4:30:24 PM] Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms v3.2 Contingency Planning Contract Performance Control Contract Plan Control Cycle Control Gate Cost Account Cost Account Breakdown Cost Growth Cost Incurred Cost Variance Cost/Benefit Critical Design Review Critical Event Cycle Time D Damages Defect Defective Dependency Dependency Arrow Design to Cost Design-to Specifications Direct Project Costs Directing Dynamic Classification E EAC Economist Economy of Governance End Stage Report End Tranche Assessment ESAR Escalated Base Price EV Evaluate Executive Executive Authority Extra Works F f Feeding Buffer FF Firmware First In, First Out Forecasting Foreign Function, project management Functional Analysis Fuzzy Front End G G&A Guideline H Hammock Hypothesis I I/T Incentive Schemes Inception Information Distribution Information Flow Inspection Tightened Inspection, Original Interface Interface Activity Invitation Invitation for Bid Iteration J JIT Just-In-Time K Key KSI L Labor Lead Lead Contractor Leveling Leverage LML file:///OS922-10GB/Desktop%20Folder/PMGloss_32_PDF/index.htm (2 of 4) [1/13/2003 4:30:24 PM] Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms v3.2 LOA Lump Sum M Macro Environment Manager Manager Interfaces Material Material Difference Messaging Method Mission Statement Mitigation Must Start N N/A Node Non-Conformance NTE O O&M OPL Opportunities Other Direct Costs Out of Scope Ownership of Quality Responsibility P PA Pedigree Peer Review PERT Chart PERT Cost Planning Matrix Planning Package Post Project Appraisal Post Project Evaluation Prescriptive Present Value Probity Problem Procurement Qualifications Procurement Ranking Production Management Production Model Program Evaluation and Review Technique Program Execution Phase Progress Payment Progress Payments Project Brief Project Budget Project Culture Project Data Document Project Leadership Project Life Cycle Project Management Team Project Manager Project Plan Project Plan Development Project Services Project Sponsor Project Visibility Project Vision PVWS Q QA Quality Control Quality Criteria Quick Reaction Capability R RAM Regression Analysis Regulations Request for Proposal Request for Quotation Resource Availability Resource Availability Date Resourcing Plan Response Planning Risk Risk & Readiness Assessment Risk Management Strategy Risk Matrix Runaway Project file:///OS922-10GB/Desktop%20Folder/PMGloss_32_PDF/index.htm (3 of 4) [1/13/2003 4:30:24 PM] Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms v3.2 S S Curve Schedule Status Schedule Update Scope Description Scope Interfaces Self-Inspection Self-Insurance Site Works Situation Analysis Solving Source Staff Staff Acquisition Standard Proposal Schedule Standard Time Storming Stovepipe Success Criteria Success Factors System System Acceptance Systems Scope Description T T&M Team Development Team Development Plan Telecommunication Telecommunications Time and Motion Study Time Based Network Tolerance Tools Type U UB Utilization V VAC VE Vendor Volume W Wage Work Breakdown Structure Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary WYSIWYG Y Yield Yield Z Zero Based Budgeting Zero Float Home | Issacons | PM Glossary | Papers & Books | Max's Musings Guest Articles | Contact Info | Top of Page file:///OS922-10GB/Desktop%20Folder/PMGloss_32_PDF/index.htm (4 of 4) [1/13/2003 4:30:24 PM] Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms v3.2 Copyright Wideman Comparative Glossary of Common Project Management Terms v3.2 is copyright by R. Max Wideman, January 2003. Please feel free to point to this document. For non-profit purposes you may copy this pages provided the above copyright notice is attached. For inclusion in for-profit works, please contact the author at max_wideman@sfu.ca Last updated 01-01-03 Page Content Index | Introduction | International Recognition 1999 Sources and References | About the Author | Technical What's New in Version 3 Order Your Copy! A Glossary that is Comparative and Linked Do you have project communication problems? On a project you may think you all speak the same language, but that may not be true. Many familiar terms mean very different things to different people. Successful project management depends on clear communication and all participants must share a common understanding of the terminology they use if problems are to be avoided. Yet the diverse roots of project management have led to many different "dialects". Consequently, project communications can be foggy at best and down right dangerous at worst if people use the same term to convey different meanings. In practice every project, or certainly every program, should have its own reference glossary, but unfortunately this is not always the case. Our Vision: Solving the Communication Problem At a very modest cost, a copy of this Glossary on the PC of every project management practitioner in the world, and a copy in the study material of every project management student! Work-in-Progress This Glossary is a "work-in-progress" with the objective of bringing more order and better understanding to our world of project management. In many cases we provide not just one meaning but several from many authoritative sources. This illustrates the range of opinion in even the most common terms. Moreover, most project management terms depend on other terms for clarity and in a paper- based glossary you have to do a lot of page turning to get a reasonable understanding. In this Glossary, HTML allows us to provide liberal hyperlinks that take you to associated terms with just one click. Always review these links and any alternatives because they often provide significant insight into the intended meaning. Further, terms often have different meanings in different contexts or different areas of project management application. Some definitions are even contradictory! We hope the Glossary will help you assemble an appropriate project file:///OS922-10GB/Desktop%20Folder/PMGloss_32_PDF/intro.htm (1 of 2) [1/13/2003 4:30:26 PM] Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms v3.2 reference document for your projects. We have marked our recommendation with a check mark but you may have different ideas. Select with care - and please make sure that you include the source references! Acknowledgements The Editor is indebted to the many people who have contributed to this glossary whether wittingly or unwittingly. He is also indebted to Graham Wideman for creating the software capable of generating this version and to Penny Schneider for the web site art work. For comments and suggestions, Email to: pmg@maxwideman.com Home | Issacons | PM Glossary | Papers & Books | Max's Musings Guest Articles | Contact Info | Top of Page file:///OS922-10GB/Desktop%20Folder/PMGloss_32_PDF/intro.htm (2 of 2) [1/13/2003 4:30:26 PM] Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms v3.2 Copyright Wideman Comparative Glossary of Common Project Management Terms v3.2 is copyright by R. Max Wideman, January 2032. Please feel free to point to this document. For non-profit purposes you may copy this page provided the above copyright notice is attached. For inclusion in for-profit works, please contact the author at max_wideman@sfu.ca Last updated 01-01-03 Page Content Index | Introduction | International Recognition 1999 Sources and References | About the Author | Technical What's New in Version 3 Order Your Copy! International Recognition in 1999 In June, 1999, under the auspices of NASA, a group of thirty three distinguished project management researchers and experts representing fourteen countries on five continents met in Norfolk, Virginia. Their purpose was to seek some world-wide unanimity on the basic concepts reasonably claimed to form the global body of project management knowledge. Much progress was made during the intensive deliberations. In particular, the need for a common understanding of an array of project management terminology was recognized. Following discussion, the group decided that the Wideman Comparative Glossary of Common Project Management Terms was the best source of definitions for their purpose. Moreover, participants in the conference agreed to contribute additional definitions and identifed several hundred more that should be added. These included many references to program and programme management. As a direct result of the conference, both through the further contributions and requested additions, the number of entries in the Glossary was increased from the previouis 2200 to over 4500. However, not all of the requested additions could be sourced reliably. In those cases, we proposed definitions based on Webster or other related program/project texts. Since that time the Glossary has been further updated. Home | Issacons | PM Glossary | Papers & Books | Max's Musings Guest Articles | Contact Info | Top of Page file:///OS922-10GB/Desktop%20Folder/PMGloss_32_PDF/international.htm [1/13/2003 4:30:27 PM] Expert Project Management - Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms v3.2 Copyright Wideman Comparative Glossary of Common Project Management Terms v3.2 is copyright by R. Max Wideman January, 2003. Please feel free to point to this document. For non-profit purposes you may copy this page, either whole or as whole definitions provided the above copyright notice is attached. For inclusion in for-profit works, please contact the author at max_wideman@sfu.ca Page Content Index | Introduction | International Recognition 1999 Sources and References | About the Author | Technical What's New in Version 3 Order Your Copy! Project Management Glossary Sources Source Id Source Description APM Abstracted from Association of Project Management (UK) APMP Syllabus 2nd Edition, January 2000, Abridged Glossary of Project Management Terms (Rev.4) BS British Standard CCCP Wideman, R. M. Cost Control of Capital Projects, BiTech Publishers Ltd, Richmond, BC, Canada, 1995 CMMG Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model Glossary, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999 CPMUSC Peters, G. Construction Project Management Using Small Computers, Architectural Press, London, UK, 1984 CRMP Patel, M.B., & P.W.G. Morris. Centre for Research in the Management of Projects (CRMP), University of Manchester, UK, 1999 CSM A Glossary of Project Management Terms Center for Systems Management, by Email September, 1999 DSMC Derived from the glossary of terms used by the Defense Systems Management College, Virginia, USA FAR US Federal Acquisition Regulation, US Government, Washington, DC FWH Wideman, R. M. Framework Handbook, Project Management Institute, Newtown Square, PA, 1991 GAT A Glossary of Acquisition Terms, US Federal Acquisition Institute, Washington, DC, 1998 ISO International Organization for Standardization, Geneva 20, Switzerland KSI Program management course glossary, Kingston Sorel International 2000 MEMOPT Balfour, R. J. Chair, Members Option Report, prepared for the Project Management Institute, 1996, Glossary, p40 MFC Communicating Project Management, John Wiley & Sons, 2003, Ch5 file:///OS922-10GB/Desktop%20Folder/PMGloss_32_PDF/PMGloss_Sources.htm (1 of 6) [1/13/2003 4:30:29 PM] Expert Project Management - Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms v3.2 MIL-STD US Military Standard MSA Meyers B.C, P Oberndorf, Managing Software Acquisition, Addison Wesley, NY, 2001 MSP98 Glossary, User's Guide for Microsoft Project 98, Microsoft Corporation, 1997, p307 MSP-UK A guide to Managing Successful Programmes, glossary, Office of Government Commerce, London, UK, 1999 NPMT Nordic Project Management Terminology, NORDNET, Reistad Offset, Oslo, 1985 OTOB Baker, S & K. Baker. On Time/On Budget, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992 PCD Dinsmore, Paul C. President of Dinsmore Associates, in various PMI PMNet articles PDG Giammalvo, P. D. Consulting Practice, Jakarta, Indonesia PMDT Cleland, D.I. & H. Kerzner. A Project Management Dictionary of Terms PMGdLns Project Management Guidelines (Private BC Corporation), 1995 PMH Project Management Handbook, J. K. Pinto, Editor, Jossey- Bass, 1998 PMIS Project Management Information System (BC Government Project), 1997 PMK00 Various original authors quoted in Project Management Body of Knowledge Glossary of Terms, Project Management Institute, 2000 PMK87 Various original authors quoted in Project Management Body of Knowledge Glossary of Terms, Project Management Institute 1987 PMK96 Various original authors quoted in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (known as "PMBOK®") reprinted with the permission of the Project Management Institute. Please refer to the entry PMBOK® for details PMMJ97 Martin, P, & K. Tate. Project Management Memory Jogger, GOAL/QPC, 1997 MartinTate PMST Wagner, D. PM Software Terminology, National Information Systems, Inc. and Gil Howard, iTECH Consulting Group Ltd (Contact: ghoward@globalnet.co.uk) PNG Projectnet Glossary, April 1997, on the web site of the UK publication Project Manager Today PPS&C Lewis, J. P. Project Planning, Scheduling & Control, Irwin Professional Publishing, Chicago, 1995 PRNC2 PRINCE2 Reference Manual, Office of Government Commerce, London, UK, 2002 QMPP Ireland, L. Quality Management for Projects and Programs, Project Management Institute, Newtown Square, PA, 1991 file:///OS922-10GB/Desktop%20Folder/PMGloss_32_PDF/PMGloss_Sources.htm (2 of 6) [1/13/2003 4:30:29 PM] Expert Project Management - Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms v3.2 QWF Fleming, Q. W. Co-author of Earned Value Project Management, by Email, April 2000 RAMP Risk Analysis and Management of Projects (RAMP), UK, web site circa 1998 RMH Wideman, R. M. Risk Management Handbook, Project Management Institute, Newtown Square, PA, 1992 RMW Wideman, R. M. Composite additions from various sources, 1998-01 RUP Rational Unified Process 2000 SA-CMM Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model v. 1.02 Glossary of Terms,1999 SCL Terminology, Project Management Manual, Syncrude Canada Ltd. April 1990 SPM Rosenau, M. D, Software Project Management, Lewin Associates, Los Angeles, CA, 1988 SU Source Unknown TGPM Tasmanian Government Project Management Glossary, Version 3.0, 2002. See Tasmanian Government Project Management Home Page TM Mochal T, the TenStep Project Management Process Glossary TML Batten, J. D, Tough-Minded Leadership, AMACOM, New York, NY, 1989 USDoD US Department of Defense, Philadelphia, PA, USA VPM Forsberg, K, H. Mooz, & H. 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