Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Tenth Edition

Subject Index

Abbott's admonitions, 246

Absentee project sponsorship, 389–390

Acceptance sampling, 912

Accessibility, 370

Accommodating (in conflict resolution), 305

Accountability:

dual, 327

and organizational structure, 95

shared, 15, 16

of teams, 218–219

Accounting staff, resistance to change by, 77

Acheson's rule of the bureaucracy, 246

Activities, overlapping, 801–803

Activity scheduling, 454–455

Activity traps, 231

Actual cost for work performed (ACWP), 647–650, 654, 657, 659–662, 666, 673, 675–677

Actual earned value (AEV), 662

Actual failure, 63

ACWP, see Actual cost for work performed

Administration, project, 18–19

Administration cycle (contracts), 859–862

Administrative closure, 74

Administrative skills (of project manager), 152–153

Aerospace industry, 39

AEV (actual earned value), 662

Aggregate projects, 56

“Aggressor” (employee role), 181

Air France Concorde crash, 974

Alternatives:

in systems approach, 83–85

in trade-off analysis, 721–722, 731–732

Alternative design, 785

Ambiguity, 237

Analysis phase (systems approach), 82–85

Anderson's law, 246

Andrews, Bob, 978

Anxiety, 212, 214–216, 292

Apportioned effort technique, 658

Appraisals:

performance, 332

project work assignment, 322–324

Approved suppliers, 346

Approximate estimate, 574

Argyris, Chris, 196

Arms race, 39

Armstrong Building Products, 885

Assertiveness (in conflict resolution), 306

Assumptions, validating, 414–415

ATMs (automatic teller machines), 738

AT&T, 885, 988

Attribute charts, 905

Audits:

project, ...