Project Management Essentials For Dummies, Australian and New Zealand Edition

Index

• A •

accountability of occasional staff, 137–138

action contingency for risks, 117

action on problems, taking, 150

actions to take on risks, 116–118

activities

dependency of, 67–68

double dependency of, 68

listing, 66, 67

activity focus, problems of, 47–48

Activity Network Diagram

and reality, 82–83

constructing, 67–69

Activity Networks

based on WFDs, 69–71

drawing up, 66–67

relationship to Gantt Charts, 85–86

working with, 83–84

activity planning, moving to, 66

activity times, fine-tuning estimates of, 92

activity timing, considerations in, 92–93

actual spend, 98

actuals, definition, 97–98

administrators, project, 129–130

Agile methodology, 12

approval from stakeholders, 40

areas of control, 8

assumptions, identifying, 167

audits of projects, 129

avoidance option for risks, 116

• B •

backing into the schedule, 84

backwards pass, 75–76

balanced matrix structure, 133

benefit projections, prudence with, 26–27

benefits

of business case, 23

measuring later, 163–164

measuring now, 163

benefits contamination, 28

benefits realisation, 27–28

blogs for stakeholder communication, 41

bottlenecks, control by, 60–61

bottom-up checks, 51–53

break-even model, 31

briefings for stakeholder communication, 41

budget holders, planning for, 166

budgets

definition, 95

developing, 96–97

giving appropriate detail in, 98

monitoring, 98

planning for, 105

updating, 97–98

business benefits, 25

Business Case for project

basic contents of, 23–24

benefits of, 26–28

definition, 16

justifying, 25

producing, ...