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Practical Project Management

activity on arrow, 66, 160-161, 166-170 activity on node, 160-161 Actual Cost of Work Performed (ACWP), 233 Approximate Estimate, 193 authority, 209-219

backward pass, 176 brainstorming, 15, 95, 248 identifying tasks using, 44 budget, 99, 187-203 client issues, 191 currency exchange rate, 192-193 estimating cost in task analysis, 89-93 inflation, 192-193 job costing, 195-203 slack time and, 74 variance, 228

See also cost Budget constraint, 24-36 definition of, 24 Budget Control Chart, 202-203 Budgeted Cost of Work Performed (BCWP), 233 Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled (BCWS), 232

change order, 31, 32, 224-226 checkpoints, 66, 91 confidence level, 104-114, 116 definition of, 104 standard deviation and, 111-114 conflicts, 34-35 contracts, 93, 99, 198 Control Point Identification Chart, 95-97, 228 control systems, 269 cost, 99, 103-119, 182 client and customer, 191 contract, 93 estimating, in task analysis, 89-93 fixed, 93, 189 human resource, 189-190, 191-192 inflation, 192-193 overhead, 189-190, 195 reducing, 251-253 research and development, 193-194 variable, 93

See also budget cost accounting, 190 CPM. See Critical Path Method crash analysis, 118 crash cost definition of, 118-119 crash slope, 182 definition of, 118-119 crash time, 116, 117-119, 136-137, 181, 198 Critical Path, 130, 135, 198 charting, 159-182 definition of, 171 software for calculating, 132-134, 176

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Critical Path Method, 9, 104, 116-119 benefits of using with small projects, 179-182 critical task, 135-136, 176 definition of, 171 cross-project dependencies, 74-75 currency exchange rate, 192

deliverables definition of, 87 dependency, 75-77 cross-project, 74 finish-to-finish, 75-76 finish-to-start, 75 lag, 75, 77 overlaps, 75, 76-77 start-to-finish, 75, 76 start-to-start, 75, 76 dependency relationships, 66, 114, 160-161 resources and, 74-75 dependency sequence, 62, 87 dependent task definition of, 65 Detailed Cost Data, 194 diamond symbol, 66 driver definition of, 28-29 multiple projects and, 260 dummy task definition of, 66 early start, 176-177 early warning point, 95 Earned Value Method, 232-233 elapsed days, 177 equipment, 89, 99 escalating project objectives, 224-226 estimates, 89-93, 107-119, 130

financial systems, 189-191 finish-to-finish (FF) dependency, 75-76 finish-to-start (FS) dependency, 75 “Five Whys” technique, 247 fixed costs, 93, 189 float. See slack Force Field Analysis, 250 forced-choice question, 30 forward pass, 176 free slack definition of, 171 full path definition of, 171

Gantt Chart, 9, 66, 123-154 multiple projects and, 260 software for creating, 132-134

Tracking, 233-234 General & Administrative (G&A) costs, 93, 190 Goal, 4-5, 9, 16, 23, 32-36, 221, 222 definition of, 23 transition to plans, 42