Learn the lingo

As we have been through the eight steps that guarantee you will be in control of your project, we have introduced a lot of project terminology and jargon. Knowing this jargon will not make you a better project manager, but it does provide a quicker way to communicate with other project managers who know it. So, here is a summary of all of the essential project lingo hat you will need, to get by.

We will start, inevitably, with project. A project is a co-ordinated set of tasks that together create a defined new product, process or service, within a constrained time and resource budget. A project manager is that circus performer who can keep juggling relationships with the many people involved in the project, whilst keeping ...

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