The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management, 5th Edition

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• Acceptance process
• Accountability: OrthoSpot's work breakdown structures (WBSs) for project; project team leader exhibiting and demanding
• Accountable project office
• Active listening
• ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and Our Community (Hiatt)
• Adobe Systems: description and products of; developing calibrated model for estimating project time
• The Agile Approach to Software Development (Shalloway)
• Agile development framework: assuming the continual improvement of product; “emergent design” approach of; incremental delivery using the; Scrum used with
• Agile software development: accurate project status during; ATDD (acceptance test-driven development) method adopted by; comparing waterfall and agile approaches to making progress; “emergent design” approach by; essence of agile; The Lean Startup roots from; learning early through the; misperceptions about agility; stepwise approach to discovery of business value; variations in methods of
• Alignment: establishing project's organizational; project portfolio management (PPM) for strategy and resource
• Amazon.com
• Apple Computer
• Apportioning (or top-down estimating)
• ATDD (acceptance test-driven development) method
• Authority: as challenge of managing projects; problem of having responsibility beyond your; project charter to establish; project managers need expert; as project organization issue; responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) for clarifying; SOW (statement of work) on chain of command
• Autocratic decision mode ...