Project Portfolio Management (PPM)

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Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a term used by project managers and project management (PM) organizations to describe methods for analyzing and collectively managing a group of current or proposed [...]

Critical Chain

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Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) is a method of planning and managing projects that puts more emphasis on the resources required to execute project tasks developed by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. This is in contrast to the more traditional Critical Path and PERT methods, which emphasize [...]

Critical Path Method

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PERT chart for a project with five milestones (10 through 50) and six activities (A through F). The project has two critical paths: activities B and C, or A, D, and F - giving a minimum project time [...]

Earned Value Management (EVM)

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Earned Value Management (EVM) is [...]

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Program WBS

A work breakdown structure or WBS is a fundamental tool commonly used in project management and systems engineering. It is a tree-like structure that permits summing of subordinate costs for tasks, materials, etc., into their successively higher level “parent” tasks, materials, etc. For each element of the work breakdown structure, a description of the [...]

Scope

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In project management, the scope of a project is the sum total of all of its products and their requirements or features.[citation needed]
Sometimes the term scope is used [...]

Gantt

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A Gantt chart showing three kinds of schedule dependencies (in red) and percent complete indications.

A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. Gantt charts illustrate the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project. Terminal [...]

Project Management

Project Management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. A project is a finite endeavor (having specific start and completion dates) undertaken to create a unique product or service which brings about beneficial change or added value. This finite characteristic of [...]