Project Management For Dummies, 6th Edition

Index

A

• AC (actual cost), 415
• acceptance criteria
  • in scope statement, 86
  • as WBS components, 141
• accountability
  • distinguishing, 264–265
  • maintaining, 272–274
• accounting software, 400
• accuracy
  • defined, 232
  • improving
    • for expenditure data, 329
    • for schedule performance data, 319–320
    • for work-effort data, 324–325
• achieved power, 366
• action verbs, using to title activities, 120–121
• active listening, 342–344
• activities
  • considerations for, 436
  • critical paths and, 318
  • defined, 121, 315
  • determining, 160–161
  • estimating activity durations, 172–176
  • float, 151
  • Gantt charts, 59, 176–179, 199
  • included as WBS components, 140
  • in network diagrams, 147
  • ordering, 161
  • performing simultaneously, 168–172
• activity list, 176–179
• activity performance, as a limitation type, 107
• activity-in-box precedence diagramming method, 148–149
• activity-on-arrow approach, 149
• activity-on-node technique, 148–149
• actual cost (AC), 415
• ad hoc team meetings, 357
• adaptability, as a principle of PMBOK 7, 22–23
• Adjourning stage, in Tuckman Ladder model, 302
• administrative issues, handling, 381
• Agile Manifesto (website), 395
• Agile project management
  • about, 24, 56, 394
  • compared with traditional Waterfall project management, 397–398
  • drivers of, 394–395
  • implemented through Scrum, 396–397
• Agile Project Management For Dummies (Layton), 397
• agreements, as artifacts, 60
• allocations, planning initial, 198–200
• allowable payback period, 48
• analyzing
  • expenditures, 328–329
  • interest of stakeholders, 82–83
  • network diagrams, ...