Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms v3.1

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Letter	From	To

A	ABC	Acquisition Plan
	Acquisition Plan Review	Activity on Node
	Activity Oriented	Affected Parties
	Agency	Apportioned Effort
	Apportioned Task	As-of Date
	As-Performed Schedule	Award Letter

B	BAC	Baseline Review
	Baseline Schedule	Bid List
	Bid Package	Bribe
	BSA	Burst Node
	Business Actor	Bypassing

C	C/SCSC	Cash Flow
	Cash Flow Analysis	Change Order
	Change Order/Purchase Order Amendment	Code of Accounts
	Coding	Compensation
	Compensation and Evaluation	Concept Study
	Conception Phase	Configuration Management
	Configuration Management Board	Contemplated Change Notice
	Contending, in negotiating	Contract Dates
	Contract Dispute	Contractual Conditions
	Contractual/Legal Requirements	Corporate Responsibility Matrix
	Corporate Standards	Cost Effective
	Cost Element	Cost Plus Percentage of Cost Contract
	Cost Reimbursable Contract	Criterion
	Critical	CTP
	CTR	Cycle Time

D	Damages	Defective
	Defects-Per-Hundred-Units	Dependency Diagram
	Dependency Links	Detailed Design Stage
	Detailed Engineering	Discipline
	Discipline Maintenance	Dynamic Classification

E	EAC	Economy of Governance
	ECP	End-Phase Assessment
	Engineering Change Notice	Estimate
	Estimate at Completion	Event-driven Review
	Event-on-Node	Extra Works

F	f	File
	File Transfer	Fixed Start
	Fixed-Duration Scheduling	Forward Pass
	FP	Fuzzy Front End

G	G&A	Guideline

H	Hammock	Hypothesis

I	I/T	Inception
	Inclusion	Information Input
	Information Management	Instrumentation
	Instruments	Interface Specification
	Interfaces	Iteration

J	JIT	Just-In-Time

K	Key	KSI

L	Labor	Lead
	Lead Contractor	Leverage
	LF	Local Area Network
	Locate Responsibility	Lump Sum

M	Macro Environment	Manager Interfaces
	Manager of Project Management	Material Handling
	Material Requirements Planning	Methodology
	Methods Study	Mixed Organization
	MOA	Must Start

N	N/A	Node
	Non-Conformance	NTE

O	O&M	Opportunity
	Opportunity Cost	Ownership of Quality Responsibility

P	PA	Pedigree
	Peer Review	Pessimistic Duration
	Pessimistic Time	Plug Date
	Plugged date	Pre Award Meetings
	Pre Award Survey	Pricing
	Pricing Data Index	Process
	Process and Organization	Product Breakdown Structure
	Product Champion	Program Definition Phase
	Program Definition Statement	Progress Date
	Progress Draw	Project Boundary
	Project Breakdown Structure	Project Cost Management
	Project Cost Systems	Project Leader
	Project Leadership	Project Manager
	Project Manual	Project Procedures
	Project Procedures Manual	Project Success
	Project Success Criteria	PVWS

Q	QA	Quality File
	Quality Function Deployment	Quick Reaction Capability

R	RAM	Regulations
	Regulatory	Request for Proposal
	Request for Quotation	Resource Availability
	Resource Availability Date	Resourcing Plan
	Response Planning	Risk Analysis
	Risk Analysis and Management for Projects	Risk Quantification
	Risk Ranking	Runaway Project

S	S Curve	Schedule Status
	Schedule Update	Scope Interfaces
	Scope Management	Selling
	Semantics	Slack
	Slack Time	Specification
	Specification Change Notice	Stakeholder Expectations
	Stakeholder Need	Status
	Status Date	Sub-Optimization
	Subproject	Support Team
	Surplus/Deficit	Systems Scope Description

T	T&M	Team Development
	Team Development Plan	Telecommunications
	Teleconferencing	Time Box
	Time Compression	Top Down Cost Estimating
	Top Down Estimating	Type

U	UB	Utilization

V	VAC	Volume

W	Wage	Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary
	Work Breakdown Structure Element	WYSIWYG

Y	Yield	Yield

Z	Zero Based Budgeting	Zero Float

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