Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

GLOSSARY

1. Inclusions and Exclusions

This glossary includes terms that are

• Unique or nearly unique to project management (e.g., project scope statement, work package, work breakdown structure, critical path method).

• Not unique to project management, but used differently or with a narrower meaning in project management than in general everyday usage (e.g., early start date, schedule activity).

This glossary generally does not include:

• Application area-specific terms (e.g., project prospectus as a legal document—unique to real estate development).

• Terms used in project management which do not differ in any material way from everyday use (e.g., calendar day, delay).

• Compound terms whose meaning is clear from the combined meanings of the component ...