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Glossary of Project Management Terms

Our glossary of project management let you find the terms and definitions that are commonly used in business and project management. Use the form below to find a term.
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A

ABC - Activity Based Costing
Action Plan
Activity Based Costing
Advance Product Quality Planning
Advance Quality Planning
APQP (Advance Product Quality Planning)

B

Balanced Scorecard
Best Practice
Bid proposal
Bill of Material
Business case
Business case justification
Business plan

C

Calculating the Internal Rate of Return
Capability
Cash flow
Change Control
Change Management
Closure
Concept engineering
Corrective action
Cost Management
Critical path
Critical Path Analysis
Critical path scheduling

D

Design
Design review
Design to Cost
Detailed Planning

E

Effective
Effectiveness
Effectiveness indicator
Efficiency indicator
Efficiency indicator

F

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Feasibility study
FMEA
Framework

G

Gantt chart

I

Indicator
Industrial Design

J

Just in time (JIT)

K

Key performance indicators
Kick-off
Kick-Off Meeting
Knowledge management

M

Management Committee
Matrix Organization
Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
Milestone
MTBF

P

Pert
Pert diagram
Planning (Project planning)
PMO
PMO charter
Poka Yoke (Mistake proofing)
Portfolio Management
Preventive action
Process Capability
Process Development
Process Validation
Product Validation
Program Evaluation and Review Technique
Program management
Program Office
Project
Project Charter
Project framework
Project Management
Project Management Plan
Project management software
Project manager
Project Phases
Project quality plan
Project Scheduling Software
Project team
Project tracking

Q

Quality Assurance

R

Reliability
Reliability Analysis
Request for proposal
Requirement
Return on Investment
RFQ
Risk analysis
ROI
Root Cause
Root cause analysis

S

s Curve
Schedule
Scorecard
SOW
Specification
Sponsor
Stage
Stakeholder
Statement of Work
Steering committee
Strategic planning

T

Task
Task management
Task Manager
Team Building
Team charter
Team management
Test Plan
Time to market
Tool launch
Total Quality Management

V

Validation

W

Work Breakdown Structure
Work package