project management terms a working glossary

Good xiii, 250 pages. References. Name of previous owner present. Front cover curls a bit at front edge. This second edition contains almost 300 new words. The author is a Project Management Professional with more than a quarter century of experience in project management and is a Senior Vice President of ESI with responsibility for curriculum development and training worldwide. Written to answer the need for a singular compilation of the terms that define project management. Contains more than 1, 800 terms, phrases, and acronyms used in the day-to-day practice of project management. As the world ventures into new areas with project management, the vocabulary must keep pace. Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria at the specified time. A project is a temporary endeavor designed to produce a unique product, service or result with a defined beginning and end undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value. In practice, the management of such distinct production approaches requires the development of distinct technical skills and management strategies. The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints. The primary constraints are scope, time, quality and budget. The secondary challenge is to optimize the allocation of necessary inputs and apply them to meet predefined objectives. The object of project management is to produce a complete project which complies with the client's objectives. The client's objectives should impact on all decisions made by other people involved in the project-project managers, designers, contractors, subcontractors, etc. If the project management objectives are ill-defined or too tightly prescribed it will have a detrimental effect on decision making.

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