November 2014
Beginner to intermediate
304 pages
6h 35m
English
Content preview from Project Management Checklists For Dummies
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Chapter 21
Ten Sets of AKAs
In This Chapter
About naming conventions in project management
AKA – ‘also known as’
Ten lots of synonyms
Standards in projects can be a bit of a problem. If you’ve learned one, you’re reading a book based on another but your new company uses a third one, then don’t be too surprised if your head starts to spin.
This Part of Tens chapter is to help you pin down what’s what and to find a way through the maze of terminology. In each section the term used in this book is listed first and after it the AKAs – ‘also known as’.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Generally speaking the underlying concepts for parts of the project and for documents are the same, and it’s just the names that you find are different. One or two exceptions do occur though, where you need to be more careful. You’ll find a comment or two in this chapter where that is the case.
Kick Off
Kick Off: Project Start Up.
Outline Charter: Project Brief.
Planning Stage
Planning Stage: Initiation Stage.
Project Charter and Project Management Plan (PMP): Project Definition Document (PDD), Project ...
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