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APMP Version 6

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Acceptance criteria   The requirements and essential conditions that have to be achieved before a deliverable is accepted.  
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Accounting   The process of collecting and communicating financial information to meet legal requirements, business management requirements, plus internal and external stakeholders? needs.  
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Activity   1. A task, job, operation or process consuming time and possibly other resources. 2.The smallest self-contained unit of work used to define the logic of a project.  
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Activity duration   The length of time that it takes to complete an activity.  
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Activity-on-node network   A network diagram where the activities are represented by the nodes.  
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Actual expenditure   The costs that have been charged to the budget and for which payment has been made, or accrued.  
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Actual progress   A measure of the work that has been completed for comparison with the baseline.  
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Agile   A family of development methodologies where requirements and solutions are developed iteratively throughout the life cycle.  
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Avoid   A response to a threat that eliminates its probability or impact on the project.  
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Balance   A phase in the portfolio life cycle where the component projects and programmes are balanced in terms of risk, resource usage, cash flow and impact across the business.  
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Baseline   The reference levels against which a project, programme or portfolio is monitored and controlled.  
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Benefit   The quantifiable and measurable improvement resulting from completion of deliverables that is perceived as positive by a stakeholder. It will normally have a tangible value, expressed in monetary terms, that will justify the investment.  
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Benefits management   The identification, definition, planning, tracking and realisation of busieness benefits.  
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Benefits realisation   The practice of ensuring that benefits are derived from outputs and outcomes.  
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Blueprint   A document defining and describing what a programme is designed to achieve in terms of the business and operational vision.  
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Board   A body that provides sponsorship to a project, programme or portfolio. The board will represent financial, provider and user interests.  
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Bottom-up estimating   An estimating technique that uses detailed specifications to estimate time and cost for each product or activity.  
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Breakdown structure   A hierarchical structure by which project elements are broken down, or decomposed. Examples include: cost breakdown structure (CBS), organisational breakdown structure (OBS), product breakdown structure (PBS), and work breakdown structure (WBS).  
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Brief   The output of the concept phase of a project or programme.  
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Budgeting and cost control   The estimation of costs, the setting of an agreed budget, and management of actual and forecast costs against that budget  
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Buffer   A term used in critical chain for the centralised management of contingencies.  
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Business case   The business case provides justification for undertaking a project, in terms of evaluating the benefit, cost and risk of alternative options and the rationale for the preferred solution. Its purpose is to obtain management commitment and approval for inv  
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Business change manager   The role responsible for benefits management from identification through to realisation.  
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Business risk assessment   The assessment of risk to business objectives rather than risk to achieving project, programme or portfolio objectives.  
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Business-as-usual   An organisation's normal day-to-day operations.  
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Categorise   A phase in the portfolio life cycle where the component projects and programmes may be grouped according to shared characteristics.  
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Change control   The process through which all requests to change the baseline scope of a project, programme or portfolio are captured, evaluated and then approved, rejected or deferred.  
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Change freeze   A point after which no further changes to scope will be considered.  
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Change management   Change management is a structured approach to moving an organisation from the current state to the desired future state.  
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Change register   A record of all proposed changes to scope.  
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Change request   A request to obtain formal approval for changes to the scope of work.  
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Closure   The formal end point of a project or programme, either because it has been completed or because it has been terminated early.  
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Collaborative negotiation   Negotiation that seeks to create a ?winwin? scenario where all parties involved get part or all of what they were looking for from the negotiation.  
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Committed expenditure   Costs that have not yet been paid but cannot be cancelled.  
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Communication   The means by which information or instructions are exchanged. Successful communication occurs when the received meaning is the same as the transmitted meaning.  
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Communities of practice   Groups of people who share a concern or passion for an aspect of P3 management and develop expertise through regular interaction  
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Comparative estimating   An estimating technique based on the comparison with, and factoring from, the costs of similar, previous work.  
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Competence   The combined knowledge, skill and behaviour that a person needs to perform properly in a job or work role.  
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Competence framework   A set of competences and competencies that may be used to define a role.  
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Competency   A personal attribute of an individual.  
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Complexity   Complexity relates to the degree of interaction of all the elements that comprise P3 management and is dependent on such factors as the level of risk, range of stakeholders and degree of innovation.  
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Concept   Concept is the first phase in the project or programme life cycle. During this phase the need, opportunity or problem is confirmed, the overall feasibility of the work is considered and a preferred solution identified  
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Configuration   Functional and physical characteristics of a product as defined in its specification.  
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Configuration management   Configuration management encompasses the administrative activities concerned with the creation, maintenance, controlled change and quality control of the scope of work.  
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Conflict management   The process of identifying and addressing differences that, if left unresolved, could affect objectives.  
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Consumable resource   A type of resource that only remains available until consumed (for example a material).  
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Context   A collective term for the governance and setting of a project, programme or portfolio.  
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Contingency   Resource set aside for responding to identified risks.  
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Contract   An agreement made between two or more parties that creates legally binding obligations between them. The contract sets out those obligations and the actions that can be taken if they are not met.  
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Control   Tracking performance against agreed plans and taking the corrective action required to meet defined objectives.  
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Critical chain   A networking technique that identifies paths through a project based on resource dependencies, as well as technical dependencies.  
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Critical path   A sequence of activities through a network diagram from start to finish, the sum of whose durations determines the overall duration. There may be more than one such path.  
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Criticality   Used in Monte Carlo analysis, the criticality index represents the percentage of calculations that resulted in the activity being placed on the critical path.  
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Cyberbetic control   The form of control that deals with routine progress tracking and corrective action using a feedback loop.  
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Define   The phase of a portfolio life cycle where the projects, programmes and change to business-as-usual required to meet strategic objectives are identified and evaluated.  
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Defined   The third level of a typical maturity model where processes are documented and standardised.  
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Definition   The second phase of a project or programme life cycle where requirements are refined, the preferred solution is identified and ways of achieving it are identified.  
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Delegation   The practice of giving a person or group the authority to perform the responsibilities of, or act on behalf of, another.  
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Deliverable   A product, set of products or package of work that will be delivered to, and formally accepted by, a stakeholder.  
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Demobilisation   The controlled dispersal of personnel and disposal of assets when they are no longer needed on a project, programme or portfolio.  
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Dependency   A relationship between activities in a network diagram.  
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Disbenefit   A consequence of change perceived as negative by one or more stakeholders.  
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Do nothing' option   The result or consequence of not proceeding with the project or programme. Usually explained in the business case.  
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Drawdown   The removal of funds from an agreed source resulting in a reduction of available funds.  
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Earned value   The value of the useful work done at any given point in a project. The value of completed work expressed in terms of the budget assigned to that work. A measure of project progress. Note: the budget may be expressed in cost or labour hours.  
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Earned value management   A project control process based on a structured approach to planning, cost collection and performance measurement. It facilitates the integration of project scope, time and cost objectives and the establishment of a baseline plan for performance measurem  
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Enhance   A response to an opportunity that increases its probability, impact or both on the project.  
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Enterprise project management office   An organisation that is responsible for the governance infrastructure of P3 management.  
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Environment   The circumstances and conditions within which the project, programme or portfolio must operate.  
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Escalation   The process by which issues are drawn to the attention of a higher level of management.  
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Estimate   An approximation of project time and cost targets, refined throughout the project life cycle.  
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Estimating   The use of a range of tools and techniques to produce estimates.  
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Ethics framework   Sets recognised standards of conduct and behaviour within the P3 profession.  
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Exploit   A response to an opportunity that maximises both its probability and impact.  
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Extended life cycle   A life cycle model that includes the operation of outputs and realisation of benefits.  
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Financial management   Financial management of estimating and justifying costs in order to secure funds, controlling expenditure and evaluating the outcomes.  
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Finish-to-finish   A dependency in an activity-on-node network. It indicates that one activity cannot finish until another activity has finished.  
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Finish-to-start   A dependency in an activity-on-node network. It indicates that one activity cannot start until another activity has finished.  
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Float   A term used to describe the flexibility with which an activity may be rescheduled. There are various types of float, such as total float and free float.  
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Forecast expenditure   The estimated and predicted use of money.  
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Funding   The means by which the capital required to undertake a project, programme or portfolio is secured and then made available as required.  
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Gantt chart   A graphical representation of activity against time. Variations may include information such as ?actual vs. planned?, resource usage and dependencies.  
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Gate   The point between phases, gates and/or tranches where a go/no go decision can be made about the remainder of the work.  
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Governance   The set of policies, regulations, functions, processes, procedures and responsibilities that define the establishment, management and control of projects, programmes or portfolios.  
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Handover   The point in the life cycle where deliverables are handed over to the sponsor and users.  
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Health and safety management   The process of identifying and minimising threats to workers and those affected by the work throughout the project, programme or portfolio life cycle.  
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Host organisation   The organisation that provides the strategic direction of the project, programme or portfolio and will be the primary recipient of the benefits.  
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Human resource management (HRM)   Managing people-related activities within an organisation to meet its strategic goals.  
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Influencing   The act of affecting the behaviours and actions of others.  
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Information management   The collection, storage, dissemination, archiving and destruction of information. It enables teams and stakeholders to use their time, resource and expertise effectively to make decisions and to fulfil their roles.  
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Infrastructure   Provides support for projects, programmes and portfolios, and is the focal point for the development and maintenance of P3 management within an organisation.  
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Initial   The first level of a typical maturity model where processes are typically ad hoc and occasionally chaotic.  
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Integrated assurance   The coordination of assurance activities where there are a number of assurance providers.  
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Integrative management   The application of management processes that integrate some or all fundamental components of scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality and resources.  
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Interpersonal skills   The means by which people relate to, and interact with, other people.  
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Investment appraisal   A collection of techniques used to identify the attractiveness of an investment.  
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Issue   A formal issue occurs when the tolerances of delegated work are predicted to be exceeded or have been exceeded. This triggers the escalation of the issue from one level of management to the next in order to seek a solution.  
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Knowledge management   The systematic management of information and learning. It turns personal information and experience into collective knowledge that can be widely shared throughout an organisation and a profession.  
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Law   The relevant legal duties, rights and processes that should be applied to projects, programmes and portfolios.  
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Leadership   The ability to establish vision and direction, to influence and align others towards a common purpose, and to empower and inspire people to achieve success.  
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Learning and development   The continual improvement of competence at all levels of an organisation.  
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Lessons learned   Documented experiences that can be used to improve the future management of projects, programmes and portfolios.  
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Life cycle   The inter-related phases of a project, programme or portfolio and provides a structure for governing the progression of work.  
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Managed   The fourth level of a typical capability maturity model where metrics are gathered on process performance and used to control future performance.  
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Management plan   A plan that sets out the policies and principles that will be applied to the management of some aspects of a project, programme or portfolio. Examples include a Risk Management Plan, a Communication Management Plan and a Quality Management Plan.  
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Management reserve   A sum of money held as an overall contingency to cover the cost impact of some unexpected event.  
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Maturity model   An organisational model that describes a number of evolutionary stages through which an organisation improves its management processes.  
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Milestone   A key event selected for its importance in the schedule.  
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Mobilisation   Ensures that the project, programme or portfolio has appropriate organisational and technical infrastructures and mechanisms for putting resources in place.  
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Monte Carlo analysis   A technique used to estimate the likely range of outcomes from a complex process by simulating the process under randomly selected conditions a large number of times.  
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Negotiation   A discussion between two or more parties aimed at reaching agreement.  
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Network analysis   A collective term for the different ways in which a network diagram may be analysed including, for example, critical path analysis, program evaluation and review technique, and critical chain.  
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Network diagram   A model of activities and their dependencies comprising nodes and links.  
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Objectives   Predetermined results towards which effort is directed. Objectives may be defined in terms of outputs, outcomes and/or benefits.  
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Operations management   The management of those activities that create the core services or products provided by an organisation.  
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Opportunity   A positive risk event that, if it occurs, will have a beneficial effect on achievement of objectives.  
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Organisation   The management structure applicable to the project, programme or portfolio and the organisational environment in which it operates.  
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P3 assurance   The process of providing confidence to stakeholders that projects, programmes and portfolios will achieve their scope, time, cost and quality objectives, and realise their benefits.  
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P3 management   The collective term for project, programme and portfolio management.  
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P3 management team   A collective term for those involved in the sponsorship and day-to-day management of a project, programme or portfolio.  
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Parallel life cycle   A life cycle where phases are conducted in parallel.  
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Parametric estimating   An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historic data and other variables to calculate an estimate.  
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Phase   The major subdivision of a life cycle.  
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Planning   Determines what is to be delivered, how much it will cost, when it will be delivered, how it will be delivered and who will carry it out.  
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Portfolio   A grouping of an organisation's projects, programmes and related business-as-usual activities taking into account resource constraints. Portfolios can be managed at an organisational, programme or functional level.  
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Portfolio management   The selection, prioritisation and control of an organisation?s projects and programmes in line with its strategic objectives and capacity to deliver.  
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Precedence network   A network diagram in which activities are represented by rectangles (nodes) and their dependencies are represented by arrows.  
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PRINCE2   A project management method created for government projects. It is an acronym standing for PRojects IN Controlled Environments (second version). It is intended to be generic.  
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Prioritise   The phase of a portfolio life cycle where priorities are set by strategic objective, return on investment or any other chosen metric.  
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Procurement   Procurement is the process by which products and services are acquired from an external provider for incorporation into the project, programme or portfolio.  
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Product   A tangible or intangible component of a project?s output. Synonymous with deliverable.  
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Professionalism   The application of expert and specialised knowledge within a specific field and the acceptance of standards relating to that profession.  
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Program evaluation and review technique (PERT)   A network analysis technique that calculates standard deviations for the schedule based on three-point estimates of activity durations.  
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Programme   A group of related projects and change management activities that together achieve beneficial change for an organisation.  
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Programme management   The coordinated management of projects and change management activities to achieve beneficial change.  
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Project   A unique, transient endeavour undertaken to achieve a desired outcome.  
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Project management   The application of processes, methods, knowledge, skills and experience to achieve the project objectives.  
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Provider selection and management   The processes of identifying and selecting management providers through the P3 life cycle.  
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Quality   The fitness for purpose or the degree of conformance of the outputs of a process or the process itself.  
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Quality management   A discipline for ensuring the outputs, benefits and the processes by which they are delivered, meet stakeholder requirements and are fit for purpose.  
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Reduce   A response to a threat that reduces its probability , impact or both on the project.  
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Reject   A response to an opportunity where no action is taken.  
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Repeatable   The second level of a typical maturity model where basic processes are established and the necessary discipline is in place to repeat earlier successes.  
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Requirements management   The process of capturing, assessing and justifying stakeholders? wants and needs.  
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Resource allocation   The process by which resources are attributed to activities.  
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Resource availability   The level of availability of a resource, which may vary over time.  
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Resource levelling   A scheduling calculation that delays activities such that resource usage is kept below specified limits. It is also known as resource limited scheduling.  
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Resource management   The acquisition and deployment of the internal and external resources required to deliver the project, programme or portfolio.  
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Resource scheduling   A collection of techniques used to calculate the resources required to deliver the work and when they will be required.  
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Resource smoothing   A scheduling calculation that involves utilising float or increasing or decreasing the resources required for specific activities, such that any peaks and troughs of resource usage are smoothed out. This does not affect the overall duration. It is also kn  
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Resources   All those items required to undertake work including people, finance and materials.  
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Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)   A diagram or chart showing assigned responsibilities for elements of work. It is created by combining the work breakdown structure with the organisational breakdown structure.  
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Re-usable resource   A resource that when no longer needed becomes available for other uses. Accommodation, machines, test equipment and people are re-usable.  
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Reviews   A review is a critical evaluation of a deliverable, business case or P3 management process.  
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Risk   The potential of an action or event to impact on the achievement of objectives.  
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Risk analysis   An assessment and synthesis of risk events to gain an understanding of their individual significance and their combined impact on objectives.  
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Risk appetitie   The tendency of an individual or group to take risk in a given situation.  
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Risk attitude   The response of an individual or group to a given uncertain situation.  
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Risk context   Describes the institutional and individual environment, attitudes and behaviours that affect the way risk arises and the way it should be managed.  
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Risk efficiency   The principle of risk-taking to achieve the minimum level of exposure to risk for a given level of expected return.  
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Risk event   Risk event An uncertain event or set of circumstances that would, if it occurred, have an effect on the achievement of one or more objectives.  
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Risk management   A process that allows individual risk events and overall risk to be understood and managed proactively, optimising success by minimising threats and maximising opportunities.  
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Risk register   A document listing identified risk events and their corresponding planned responses.  
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Risk response   An action or set of actions to reduce the probability or impact of a threat or to increase the probability or impact of an opportunity.  
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Risk techniques   Used to identify, assess and plan responses to individual risks and overall risk.  
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Roll out   The process of delivering a number of nearly identical products to a number of users, usually after the product has been tested and shown to meet requirements.  
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Rolling wave planning   The process whereby short term work is planned in detail and longer term work is planned in outline only.  
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Safety plan   The standards and methods that minimise to an acceptable level the likelihood of accident or damage to people or equipment.  
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Schedule   A timetable showing the forecast start and finish dates for activities or events within a project, programme or portfolio.  
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Schedule management   The process of developing, maintaining and communicating schedules for time and resource.  
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Scope   The totality of the outputs, outcomes and benefits and the work required to produce them.  
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Scope management   The process whereby outputs, outcomes and benefits are identified, defined and controlled.  
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S-curve   A graphic display of cumulative costs, labour hours or other quantities, plotted against time.  
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Security   The identification, assessment and mitigation of the risks posed to information, assets and people.  
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Setting   The relationship of the project, programme or portfolio with its host organisation.  
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Share   A response to an opportunity that increases its probability, impact or both on the project by sharing the risk with a third party.  
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Slip chart   A pictorial representation of the predicted completion dates of milestones or activities compared to their planned completion dates.  
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Solutions development   The process of determining the best way of satisfying requirements.  
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Spiral life cycle   A life cycle model that combines features of both iterative development and the waterfall method.  
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Sponsorship   An important senior management role. The sponsor is accountable for ensuring that the work is governed effectively and delivers the objectives that meet identified needs.  
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Sprint   A regular repeatable work cycle in agile development. Also known as an ?iteration?.  
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Stage   A sub-division of the development phase of a project created to facilitate approval gates at suitable points in the life cycle.  
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Stakeholder   The organisations or people who have an interest or role in the project or are impacted by the project.  
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Stakeholder management   The systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to engage with stakeholders.  
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Start-to-finish   finish A dependency in an activity-on-node network. It indicates that one activity cannot finish until another activity has started.  
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Start-to-start   A dependency in an activity-on-node network. It indicates that one activity cannot start until another activity has started.  
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Statement of work (SOW)   An annex to the main body of a contract that defines the detail of deliverables, timescales and management procedures.  
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Strategic management   The identification, selection and implementation of an organisation?s long term goals and objectives.  
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Subcontract   A contractual document that legally transfers the responsibility and effort of providing goods, services, data or other hardware from one firm to another.  
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Subproject   A group of activities represented as a single activity in a higher level of the same project.  
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Success criteria   The qualitative or quantitative measures by which the success of P3 management is judged.  
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Success factors and maturity   Management practices that, when implemented, will increase the likelihood of success of a project, programme or portfolio. The degree to which these practices are established and embedded within an organisation indicates its level of maturity.  
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Sustainability   An environmental, social and economically integrated approach to development that meets present needs without compromising the environment for future generations.  
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Teamwork   A team is made up of two or more people working interdependently towards a common goal and a shared reward.  
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Termination   The decommissioning and disposal of a deliverable at the end of its useful life.  
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Threat   A negative risk; a risk that if it occurs will have a detrimental effect on the objectives.  
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Three-point estimate   An estimate in which the most likely mid-range value, an optimistic value and a pessimistic, worst case value are given.  
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Time boxing   The production of project deliverables in circumstances where time and resources including funding are fixed and the requirements are prioritised and vary depending on what can be achieved in the time box.  
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Time chainage   A form of graphical schedule that shows activity in relation to physical location as well as time.  
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Time driven   Control actions or reports that are triggered by the passage of a defined interval (e.g. monthly) are referred to as ?time-driven?.  
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Time scheduling   A collection of techniques used to develop and present schedules that show when work will be performed.  
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Total float   Time by which an activity may be delayed or extended without affecting the overall duration or violating a target finish date.  
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Tranche   A sub-division of the delivery phase of a programme created to facilitate approval gates at suitable points in the life cycle.  
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Transfer   A response to a threat that reduces its probability, impact or both on the project by transferring the risk to a third party.  
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Unified decision making   From GoPM principles. There should be a single point of decision making for the project.  
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Users   The group of people who are intended to benefit from the project or operate the deliverables.  
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V life cycle   A graphical representation of a life cycle where horizontal lines connect related front and back-end phases.  
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Value   A standard, principle or quality considered worthwhile or desirable. The size of a benefit associated with a requirement. In value management terms value is defined as the ratio of 'satisfaction of needs' over 'use of resources'.  
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Value management   A structured approach to defining what value means to the organisation. It is a framework that allows needs, problems or opportunities to be defined and then enables review of whether these can be improved to determine the optimal approach and solution.  
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Value tree   A graphical representation of the relationship between different factors that drive value.  
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Waterfall model   A type of life cycle where phases are sequential.  
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Work package   A group of related activities that are defined at the same level within a work breakdown structure.  
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