The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management, 6th Edition

Index

NOTE: Page references in italics refer to figures.

A

• Accountability, 323
• Active listening, 331–335
• Actual cost of work performed (ACWP)/actual cost (AC), 412, 414
• Adams, Henry, 17, 18
• ADKAR (Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, Reinforcement; Prosci), 385–389
• Affected stakeholders, 106, 106–107, 118
• Agile methods, 51–76
  • applications for, 69
  • burndown charts as earned value reporting, 416
  • common benefits of, 65–67
  • development team as constant in, 68
  • estimating with, 254–255
  • incremental delivery and, 61–63, 62
  • as iterative, 57, 60–61, 61, 63, 64 (See also Iteration)
  • requirements prioritized for, 63–64, 468–471, 475, 476
  • risk activities using, 146–147
  • scheduling calculation techniques and, 218–221
  • self‐managing teams as goal of, 23
  • stakeholder roles and, 109
  • useful product as goal for each iteration, 64–65
  • waterfall vs., 58–60, 60, 67–69
  • See also Scrum
• Analysis document, 127
• Arnold, Kristin, 345
• Artist and Repertoire (A&R) managers, 302
• Assignments, clarity of, 366–367
• Assumptions
  • Logical Framework Approach for, 98–99
  • project charter for clarification of, 132
• Authority
  • building expert and referent authority, 24–25
  • building personal authority, 26
  • as challenge of managing projects, 31
  • expert, 125
  • limited (non‐hierarchical) authority of project managers, 18, 19
  • project charter for establishing, 125–126
  • responsibility exceeding your authority, 425–426
  • responsibility matrix and, 136
  • types of, 24

B

• Backward pass, 202
• Balance. See Cost‐schedule‐scope equilibrium ...