Start-to-Start
Wiki PageA relationship between two activities where the [[Successor]] activity (the second activity) cannot start until the [[Predecessor]] activity (the first activity) has started.
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Start-to-Finish
Wiki PageA relationship between two activities where the [[Successor]] activity (the second activity) cannot finish until the [[Predecessor]] activity (the first activity) has started. This is essentially an illogical [[Dependency]] as it implies time running...
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Slippage
Wiki PageDifference between Planned Progress, Planned Start or Planned Finish and Actual Progress, Actual Start or Actual Finish when the project is in Delay. See also [[Variance]] or [[Delay]].
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Schedule Performance Index
Wiki PageA 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...
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Retained Logic
Wiki PageA 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...
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Progress Report
Wiki PageA 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...
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Progress Override
Wiki PageA 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]].
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Programme
Wiki PageA 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...
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Planning Planet
Wiki PageA 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...
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Planning
Wiki PagePlanning 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...
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Mitigation
Wiki PageMaking 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...
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Master Programme
Wiki PageThe principal programme for a project, in particular that produced to comply with contractual requirements of the project.
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Key Performance Indicator
Wiki PageA summarised measurement of indicators that can be used to assess the performance of the project.
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Hammock
Wiki PageA 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...
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Gantt Chart
Wiki PageA 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...
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Cycle Time
Wiki PageThe 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 ...
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Risk Management
Wiki PageRisk 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...
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Claims Management
Wiki PageClaims Management is the proces by which a project team manages cost and or time changes with resepct to baseline scope.
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Logic, Leads & Lags
Wiki PageLogic, 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...
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Rates, Norms & Durations
Wiki Page[[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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