Agile/Adaptive. A change-driven approach to managing projects that grew out of software development. It’s iterative and adaptive, creating deliverables in short (up to one month) iterations or sprints. Self-organizing teams work closely with product owners to continually create business value. (Compare with waterfall.) Variants include Scrum, XP, and Lean.
Assumption. For the purposes of project management (and in particular for this book, which is focused on meetings), think of an assumption as the seed of a risk. If you assume, for example, that the price of a key material for your project is steady, and that price triples, then that assumption has germinated and started to grow into a threat. The formal definition of an ...
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