A parameter of [[Earned Value Analysis]]. The ratio of actual performance to planned performance. It is generated by taking the sum of the budgets of those activities (or milestones) completed by the data date (Budgeted Cost for Work Performed {BCWS...
A method of calculating the [[Critical Path]] in partially completed projects taking account of Out of Sequence Progress. Where activities have been progressed out of sequence, Predecessor Activities are reduced to their [[Remaining Duration]] and pr...
A regular report detailing the progress of the project, usually including a comparison of the actual progress achieved compared to that planned for the individual activities and for the project as a whole, a forecast of completion of key dates and th...
A method of calculating the [[Critical Path]] in partially completed projects taking account of Out of Sequence Progress. Where activities have been progressed out of sequence, Predecessor dependencies are ignored. See also [[Retained Logic]].
A group project: a project or programme containing multiple projects with a common purpose. The timetable for a project. Showing how Activities and Milestones are planned to be carried out over a period of time. The document for communicating the Pla...
A website networking Planning, Programming & Project Control's Professionals around the world - an expert resource of project planning benchmarks, production rates, effort hours, cycle and build times etc. Planning professionals cooperatively network...
Planning relates to the use of schedules such as Gantt charts to plan and subsequently report progress within the project environment.The process of preparing for the commitment of resources in the most effective fashion. It aims to produce a workabl...
Making or planning measures to reduce the risk of delays or to recover delays. Mitigating action should not unreasonably increased the overall cost of the project. Action that does increase the overall cost of the project is considered to be [[Accele...
The principal programme for a project, in particular that produced to comply with contractual requirements of the project.
A summarised measurement of indicators that can be used to assess the performance of the project.
A Hammock task is dependent on external dates for both its start and finish dates and ultimately its duration. As Scheduled dates in other tasks (which are linked to its start and finish) changes, the duration and start and/or finish dates of the ham...
A Gantt chart is a graphical representation of the duration of activities against the progression of time and is a particular type of [[Bar Chart]] though used as a synonym for bar charts in general. The ability to communicate is a definitive prerequ...
The time it takes to complete a repetitive group of activities in a project. For example, the time taken between the completion of sequential floors of a multi-storey building. The time it takes to create a deliverable. It includes staff effort time ...
Risk Management Plan provides standard methods or basis for the performance of risk management and control activities that the project team will use to manage the risks involved in the programme lifecycle of all the assets needed to provide the proje...
Claims Management is the proces by which a project team manages cost and or time changes with resepct to baseline scope.
Logic, Leads & Lags...The most widely used scheduling technique is the Precedences Diagramming Method of implementing the critical path method (CPM) for scheduling, often referred to as critical path scheduling. This method calculates the minimum com...
[[wysiwyg_imageupload:681:]]What is needed to come up with a production rate?A duration of time, the manhours involved, and an amount of work produced?This section is here to document this. What information do you have that you can share?
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