Improving Your Project Management Skills, 2nd Edition

Index

accepting risk, 170

accountability, in work breakdown structure (WBS), 52, 53

active listening, 160

activities

in crashing the schedule, 92, 93

defining, 61–62

defining relationships between, 65–67

dependencies between, 64–65

estimating, 71–86

overlapping, 93

sequencing, 52, 62–69

activity-on-node, 62–63

actual cost (AC), 139–140, 143

actual cost of work performed (ACWP), 139–140, 143

addition, termination by, 179

administrative assumptions, 41

administrative closure, 181, 185

administrative dependencies, 64

affinity diagrams, for work breakdown structure (WBS), 59

agendas, meeting, 155

analogous (historical) estimates, 74

assessment of risk, 166–168

asset availability assumptions, 42

assumptions

in estimating activities, 73

in scope statement, ...