Subject Index
Abbott's admonitions, 246
Absentee project sponsorship, 389–390
Acceptance sampling, 912
Accessibility, 370
Accommodating (in conflict resolution), 305
Accountability:
dual, 327
and organizational structure, 95
Accounting staff, resistance to change by, 77
Acheson's rule of the bureaucracy, 246
Activities, overlapping, 801–803
Activity traps, 231
Actual cost for work performed (ACWP), 647–650, 654, 657, 659–662, 666, 673, 675–677
Actual earned value (AEV), 662
Actual failure, 63
ACWP, see Actual cost for work performed
Administration, project, 18–19
Administration cycle (contracts), 859–862
Administrative closure, 74
Administrative skills (of project manager), 152–153
Aerospace industry, 39
AEV (actual earned value), 662
Aggregate projects, 56
“Aggressor” (employee role), 181
Air France Concorde crash, 974
Alternatives:
in trade-off analysis, 721–722, 731–732
Alternative design, 785
Ambiguity, 237
Analysis phase (systems approach), 82–85
Anderson's law, 246
Andrews, Bob, 978
Apportioned effort technique, 658
Appraisals:
performance, 332
project work assignment, 322–324
Approved suppliers, 346
Approximate estimate, 574
Argyris, Chris, 196
Arms race, 39
Armstrong Building Products, 885
Assertiveness (in conflict resolution), 306
Assumptions, validating, 414–415
ATMs (automatic teller machines), 738
Attribute charts, 905
Audits:
project, ...
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