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| Info that provides schedule-related info about each activity, such as predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, constraints, imposed dates and assumptions related to the activity. |
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| A tabulations of activities to be included on a project schedule. |
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Activity-on-arrow (AOA)
Arrow-diagramming method (ADM) |
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| A network diagramming techniques in which activities are represented by arrows and connected at points called nodes to illustrate the sequence of activities. |
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Analogous estimates
Top-down estimats |
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| The estimates that use the actual cost of a previous, similar project as the basis for estimating the cost of the current project. |
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| A starting point, a measurement, or an observation that is documented so that it can be used for future comparison; also defined as the original project plans plus approved changes. |
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| Cost estimates created by estimating individual activities and summing them to get a project total. |
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| Additional time to complete a task, added to an estimate to account for various factors. |
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| An occurrence when two or more activities follow a single node on a network diagram. |
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| A time-phased budget that projects manages use to measure and monitor cost performance. |
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| A technique used for making cost and schedule trade-offs to obtain the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least incremental cost. |
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| Critical chain scheduling |
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| A method of scheduling that takes limited resources into account when creating a project schedule and includes buffers to protect the project completion date. |
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| The series of activities that determine the earliest time by which te project can be completed; it is the longest path through the network diagram and has the least amount of slack or float. |
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Critical path method (CPM)
Critical path Analysis |
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| A network diagramming technique used to predict total project duration. |
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| Dependency or relationship |
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| The sequencing of project activities or tasks. |
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| Discretionary dependencies |
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| The dependencies that are defined by the project team. |
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| The actual amount of time spent working on an activity plus elapsed time. |
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| The number of workdays or work hours required to complete a task. |
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| The dependencies that involve relationships between project and not-project activities |
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| A schedule compression technique where you do activities in parallel that you would normally do in sequence. |
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| Additional time added before tasks on the critical path are preceded by no-critical tasks. |
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| A standard format for displaying project schedule info by listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in a calender format. |
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| The dependencies that are inherent in the nature of the work being performed on a project. |
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| A situation when tow or more nodes precede a single node on a network diagram. |
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| A significant event on a project. |
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| When a resource works on more than one task at a time. |
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| If something can go wrong, it will. |
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| A schematic display of the logical relationship among, or sequencing of, project activities. |
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| The starting and ending point of an activities on an activity-on-arrow network diagram. |
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| Organisationa process assets |
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| Policies and procedures related to project management, past project files, and lessons-learned reports from previous, similar projects. |
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