August 2011
Beginner to intermediate
589 pages
27h 14m
English
Content preview from Project Management: A Managerial Approach, 8th Edition
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Subject Index
Green entry numbers (W…) indicate those items that are located in the appendix section, which can be found on this book's Web site at http://www.wiley.com/college/meredith. The suffix “n” following a page number indicates a reference to a footnote.
Accounting data assumptions and problems, 63, 289
Activity. See also Activity times
critical, 339
definition, 339
pseudoactivity, 417
Activity-on-arrow, on-node network (AOA, AON), 338–342, 348, 392–392, 401–402
Activity times, 338–367. See also Scheduling, and Resource allocation
deterministic, 338
estimate at 95% and 90% levels, 364–365, W9–W10
risk in changing technology, 289–292
optimistic/pessimistic, 348–350
probabilistic, stochastic, 338, 348–350, 357–364, 389
standard deviation of, 352–356, 357–364, 350
variance of, 352–356, 357–364, 350
Addition rule, W4
Agile Project Management, 242–245, 248, 500, 526
Airbus Industries, 125
American Automobile Association (AAA), 59n
American Society for Quality, 43
American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 442, 552, 553
Analytical approach, 103
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