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Guide to Project Management: Getting it right and achieving lasting benefit, 2nd Edition
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Guide to Project Management: Getting it right and achieving lasting benefit, 2nd Edition

by Paul Roberts
February 2013
Beginner to intermediate
360 pages
8h
English
Wiley
Content preview from Guide to Project Management: Getting it right and achieving lasting benefit, 2nd Edition

Index

action forms

action plan, for embedding lessons learned

activities

activity networks

actual cost

actual cost of work performed (ACWP)

actual to date (ATD)

administration

see also support/assurance function

analogy estimating technique

annual business plan

annual planning cycle

approved subject to amendments (ASTA)

articulating the business plan

assumptions

audits

authority

balanced score card

balancing the business plan

baseline

baseline benefits

baseline budget

baseline documentation

baseline end date

baseline forecasts

baseline profit

benefits

additional
in business case
excluded
forecasting
monitoring
phased
planning
of plans
of project management
of project management improvement initiative
of projects
quantifying

benefits dependency network

benefits forecast

benefits over time

benefits realisation

governance
in project closure

benefits realisation plan

benefits realisation report

benefits realisation reviews

bottom-up estimates

buddying

budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP)

budgeted cost of work scheduled (BCWS)

budgets

baseline
in business case
for business as usual
contingency
fixed
informal quality review
monitoring
planning
at project closure
for project management
setting

business as usual

impact of projects on
management structure
and matrix management
and portfolio management team
and programmes
supply of resources to
and the vision

business balance

business case

in baseline documentation
benefits in
business realisation report
costs in
developing
justifying ...
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