Project Management Professional Glossary: Key Terms and Definitions
- Variance at Completion (VAC)
- Capacity (adaptive)
- Accepted deliverables
- Activity
- Adaptive life cycle
- ADKAR Change Model
- Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Definition of Done (DoD)
- Analogous estimating
- Angoff method
- Assumption
- Backlog refinement
- Baseline
- BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement)
- Benefits management plan
- Benefits realization
- Bidder conference
- Burn-up chart
- Change control
- Change log
- Change management plan
- Change request
- Claims administration
- Communication channels
- Communications management plan
- Compliance
- Configuration management
- Constraint
- Contingency reserve
- Control account
- Control chart
- Control limits
- Cost baseline
- Critical path
- Cumulative flow diagram
- Deliverable
- Development approach
- Duration
- Emotional intelligence
- Epic
- Expectancy theory
- Explicit knowledge
- Flowchart
- Governance
- Hybrid approach
- Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)
- Indirect cost
- Influence diagram
- Information radiator
- INVEST Criteria for Backlog Items
- Kanban
- Little’s Law
- Management reserve
- Milestone
- Monte Carlo simulation
- MoSCoW Prioritization
- Norming
- Outcome is the behavior change it enables
- Pareto diagram
- PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique)
- Portfolio
- Precision
- Predictive life cycle
- Product owner
- Product scope
- Program
- Project scope
- Psychological safety
- Quality audit
- RACI Responsibility Matrix
- Retrospective
- Risk
- Rule of seven
- Salience model
- Scope baseline
- Scope creep
- Scrum Master
- Servant leadership
- Specification limits
- Sprint
- Sprint goal
- Stage gate
- Stakeholder
- Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
- Story point
- Sustainability
- Tacit knowledge
- Tailoring
- TCPI (To-Complete Performance Index)
- Team charter
- Time and Materials (T&M)
- Three-point estimating
- Tornado diagram
- Tuckman’s ladder
- Value
- WBS dictionary
- Work performance information
- Work performance reports
- WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First)
- Zero duration
- ZOPA (Zone of Possible Agreement)