Flashcards: Project management

Business analysis is a research discipline of identifying business needs and determining solutions to business problems.

The Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) is an procedural software cost estimation model developed by Barry W.

Advanced case management (ACM), also known as dynamic or adaptive case management, refers to the coordination of a service request in finance, health, legal, citizen or human resources-related matters, on behalf of a subject such as a customer, a citizen, or an employee.

Mylyn /ˈmaɪlɪn/ is a subsystem of Eclipse for task management.

The critical path method (CPM) is an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities.

Launchpad is a web application and website that allows users to develop and maintain software, particularly open-source software.

The program (or project) evaluation and review technique, commonly abbreviated PERT, is a statistical tool, used in project management, which was designed to analyze and represent the tasks involved in completing a given project.

The Project Management Body of Knowledge is a set of standard terminology and guidelines (a body of knowledge) for project management.

The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is an iterative software development process framework created by the Rational Software Corporation, a division of IBM since 2003.

aXYKno Capital Services Pvt Ltd is an Investment Bank and Project Advisory company based in India.

A time limit or deadline is a narrow field of time, or a particular point in time, by which an objective or task must be accomplished.

PMSA is a not-for-profit professional association that is governed by a Board of Directors, and managed and administered by a National Office.

Front-End Engineering (FEE), or Front-End Engineering Design (FEED), is an engineering design approach used to control project expenses and thoroughly plan a project before a fix bid quote is submitted.

Targetprocess is a visual project management software solution that focuses on the agile software development methodology with out-of-the-box support for Scrum and Kanban.

The Goal is a management-oriented novel by Eliyahu M.

Eylean Board is a project management software developed by Prewise.

Karol Adamiecki (18 March 1866 in Dąbrowa Górnicza – 16 May 1933 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish economist, engineer and management researcher.

In environmental accounting, defensive expenditures are expenditures that seek to minimise potential damage to oneself.

The National Institute of Construction Management and Research (acronym NICMAR) is a non profit management institute and research centre in the field of construction engineering and management.

Student syndrome refers to planned procrastination, when, for example, a student will only start to apply themselves to an assignment at the last possible moment before its deadline.

LibrePlan is a free software web application for project management, developed by the Fundación para o Fomento da Calidade Industrial e Desenvolvemento Tecnolóxico de Galicia, dependent of the Ministry of Industry of the Xunta de Galicia.

ScrumEdge is a collaborative web-based scrum tool that allows agile development teams, ScrumMasters, and stakeholders to manage the Scrum lifecycle at the product and sprint levels.

10,000 ft is a software as a service company located in Seattle, Washington in the United States.

Clinical Device Group Inc (abbr. "CDG") is a medical device consultancy based in Chicago, Illinois.

Business administration is management of a business.

Theory Z is a name for various theories of human motivation built on Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y.

Intraboom is a software as a service (Saas) company based in the United States.

Cost–benefit analysis (CBA), sometimes called benefit–cost analysis (BCA), is a systematic approach to estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives (for example in transactions, activities, functional business requirements); it is used to determine options that provide the best approach to achieve benefits while preserving savings.

Triskell is a project portfolio management (PPM) software developed by Triskell Software LLC.

NetPoint is a graphically-oriented project planning and scheduling software application first released for commercial use in 2009.

"The TRANSFORMATION Project" was established at Aston University Business School.

Freedcamp is a web-based project management tool and organization system for single or multiple users collaborating using cloud computing.

Tie Ltd. (previously Transport Initiatives Edinburgh Ltd.) was a Scottish company which, from May 2002 to August 2011, project-managed large-scale transport projects on behalf of the City of Edinburgh Council in Edinburgh.

Alexander Laufer is the Director of the Consortium for Project Leadership at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

ECLIPSE (ECSS Compliant Toolset for Information and Projects Support of Enterprises in Space) is a suite of software applications, intended for use by aerospace project and mission teams in managing their CM/QA/PA/PM activities.

Ingenieurbüro-Kühlerbau-Neustadt GmbH is a privately owned, medium-size company, specialising in the design and manufacturing of coolers and pyro lines for the production of cement clinker.

Identifying and Managing Project Risk by Tom Kendrick is a book about identifying and managing risks on projects.