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Project Management General Definitions
Project Management General Definitions
Activity Duration:
It’s an estimate of how long each activity in the activity list will take. The estimate can be in
hours, days, or weeks.
OR it is the process of approximating the number of work periods needed to complete an
individual activity with the estimated resources.
Most likely (tM): The duration of the activity, given the resources likely to be assigned, their
productivity, realistic expectations of availability for the scheduled activity, dependencies on
other participants, and interruptions.
Optimistic (tO): The activity duration is based on a best‐case scenario of what is described in
the most likely estimate.
Pessimistic (tP): The activity duration is based on a worst‐case scenario of what is described
in the most likely estimate.
Milestone:
It is a significant point or event in the project.
Project Schedule:
The project schedule includes at least a planned start date and planned finish date for each
activity.
If resource planning is done at an early stage, then the project schedule would remain
preliminary until resource assignments have been confirmed, and scheduled start and finish
dates are established.
The project schedule can be presented in summary form, sometimes referred to as the
master schedule or milestone schedule, or presented in detail.
Schedule Baseline:
A schedule baseline is a specific version of the project schedule developed from the
schedule network analysis. It is accepted and approved by the project management team as
the schedule baseline with baseline start dates and baseline finish dates.
Planned % Complete:
If the schedule says that your team should have done 400 hours of work so far, and they will
work a total of 1,000 hours on the project, then your “Planned % Complete” is 40%.
Actual % Complete:
Say the schedule says that your team should have done 300 hours of work so far, out of a
total of 1,000. But you talk to your team and find out they completed 35% of the work. That
means the actual % complete is 35%.
Note: If the SPI is below 1, then your project is behind schedule. But if you see a CPI under 1,
your project is over budget!
Opportunity cost:
When an organization has to choose between two projects, they are always giving up the
money they would have made on the one they don’t do. That’s called opportunity cost. It’s
the money you don’t get because you chose not to do a project.
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