Chapter 3. The Project Planning Process Group

Terms you’ll need to understand:

Activity

Activity attributes

Activity list

Activity on arrow diagram (AOA)

Activity on node diagram (AON)

Activity sequence

Analogous estimating

Arrow diagramming method (ADM)

Bottom-up estimating

Critical path

Dependency

Milestone list

Network diagram

Parametric estimating

Precedence diagramming method (PDM)

Project management methodology

Project management plan

Project management processes

Project scope

Resource breakdown structure

Rolling wave planning

Slack

Three-point estimates

WBS dictionary

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

Techniques and concepts you’ll need to master:

General project planning steps

The importance of the WBS

The relationships between scope, activities, ...

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