Project Management Glossary

Flashcards covering project management terminology, including strategic planning, risk analysis, team dynamics, and contract types.

Strategic Plan

A high-level document that explains an organization's vision and mission plus the approach that will be adopted to achieve this mission and vision, including the specific goals and objectives to be achieved during the period covered by the document.

Strategy Artifacts

Documents created prior to or at the start of the project that address strategic, business, or high-level information about the project.

Swarm

A method in which multiple team members focus collectively on resolving a specific problem or task.

SWOT Analysis

Analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of an organization, project, or option.

Tacit Knowledge

Personal knowledge that can be difficult to articulate and share such as beliefs, experience, and insights.

Tailoring

The deliberate adaptation of approach, governance, and processes to make them more suitable for the given environment and the work at hand.

Task Board

A visual representation of the progress of the planned work that allows everyone to see the status of the tasks.

Team Charter

A document that records the team values, agreements, and operating guidelines, as well as establishes clear expectations regarding acceptable behavior by project team members.

Team Performance Domain

The performance domain that addresses activities and functions associated with the people who are responsible for producing project deliverables that realize business outcomes.

Technical Performance Measures

Quantifiable measures of technical performance that are used to ensure system components meet the technical requirements.

Template

A partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting, organizing, and presenting information and data.

Test Plan

A document describing deliverables that will be tested, tests that will be conducted, and the processes that will be used in testing.

Threat

A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.

Threshold

A predetermined value of a measurable project variable that represents a limit that requires action to be taken if it is reached.

Throughput

The number of items passing through a process.

Throughput Chart

A diagram that shows the accepted deliverables over time.

Time and Materials Contract (T&M)

A type of contract that is a hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost-reimbursable and fixed-price contracts.

Timebox

A short, fixed period of time in which work is to be completed.

Tolerance

The quantified description of acceptable variation for a quality requirement.

Trend Analysis

An analytical method that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results.