Project Management Terms

Do you need to standardise on common industry project management terms. The commonly used ones are listed below. These terms are extracted from a TechRepulic Article  which also provides explanation of each term, look there if you are interested in digging further.

• Assumption
• Client / customers
• Constraints
• Cost variance
• Critical path
• Deliverable
• Earned value
• Functional manager
• Gantt chart
• Issue
• Lifecycle
• Milestone
• Objective
• Program
• Program manager
• Project Project baseline
• Project definition (charter)
• Project manager
• Project phase
• Project plan
• Project schedule / work schedule
• Project team
• Request for proposal
• Request for quotation
• Requirements Risk
• Schedule variance
• Scope
• Scope change management
• Sponsor (executive sponsor and project sponsor)
• Stakeholder
• Steering committee
• Waterfall methodology
• Work breakdown structure
• Workplan (schedule)

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