Project Management Guide: this book explains one topic per page, like a big glossary, easy wiki, quick encyclopedia, or summary notes.
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- Project management life cycle (PMLC)
- Project portfolio management (PPM)
- Portfolio optimization
- Project versus program
- Outputs versus outcomes (OVO)
- North Star
- Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG)
- Vision, mission, values
- Voice of the Customer (VoC)
- Subject matter expert (SME)
- Mind map
- Decision tree
- Futurespective
- Brainstorming
- Thinking hats
- SCAMPER
- Oblique strategies
- Flowchart
- Mental model
- The map is not the territory
- Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Key Risk Indicators (KRIs)
- Critical Success Factors (CSFs)
- Critical To Quality (CTQ)
- Goals, Ideas, Steps, Tasks (GIST)
- Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions (RAID)
- SPADE decision framework
- Decision record
- SMART criteria
- Scope
- Scope creep
- Out-of-scope
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Functional specifications
- Functional specifications - steps
- Software development life cycle (SDLC)
- MoSCoW method
- Gantt chart
- Quad chart
- Critical chain project management
- Critical path project management
- Constraint satisfaction
- Roll-on Roll-off (RoRo)
- Emergent Task Planning (ETP)
- Lean manufacturing
- Lean software development methodology
- Agile software development methodology
- Kanban
- Scrum
- Prince2
- Six Sigma methodology
- DMAIC methodology
- Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA)
- OODA loop
- OODA loop v DMAIC cycle v PDCA spiral
- Kaizen (continuous improvement)
- ADKAR change management model
- EBFAS organizational climate
- Big design up front (BDUF)
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Activity diagram
- Sequence diagram
- Use case diagram
- Object diagram
- Class diagram
- Package diagram
- Component diagram
- Deployment diagram
- State diagram
- Timing diagram
- Entity-relationship diagram (ERD)
- Cause-and-effect diagram
- Fishbone diagram: see cause-and-effect diagram
- Ishikawa diagram: see cause-and-effect diagram
- Unified Modeling Language (UML)
- PlantUML
- Mermaid.js
- Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing (FSNP)
- Icebreaker questions
- Pizza team
- Squad team
- Community of Practice (CoP)
- The Spotify Model
- Ways Of Working (WOW)
- TEAM FOCUS
- Pair programming
- Organizational chart
- Chain of command
- Stakeholders
- Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
- RACI matrix
- PARIS matrix
- Business information systems
- Line-of-business (LOB) application
- Front-office applications
- Back-office applications
- Operational resilience
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
- Playbook
- Runbook
- Dialogic Organization Development
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
- After-Action Report (AAR)
- Blameless retrospective
- Issue tracker
- Cynefin framework
- Five Whys analysis
- Non-functional requirements: see system quality attributes
- Root cause analysis (RCA)
- System Quality Attributes (SQAs)
- Quality of Service (QoS) for networks
- Good Enough For Now (GEFN)
- Technical debt
- Refactoring
- See also: cause and effect diagram
- Descriptive statistics
- Inferential statistics
- Correlation
- Causation
- Probability
- Variance
- Trend analysis
- Anomaly detection
- Quantitative fallacy
- Regression to the mean
- Bayes' theorem
- Chi-square analysis
- Monte Carlo methods
- Statistical analysis techniques
- Enterprise Portfolio Project Management (EPPM)
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Enterprise Change Management (ECM)
- Enterprise Architecture (EA)
- Enterprise software
- The Project Management Book Of Knowledge (PMBOK)
- Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager by Kory Kogon et al.
- Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun
- Culture eats strategy for breakfast
- Execution eats strategy for lunch
- Move fast and break things
- Ideas are easy, implementation is hard
- Learn early, learn often
- Make mistakes faster
- Perfect is the enemy of good
- Data beats emotions
- See things in the present, even if they are in the future
- Brooks' Law
- Conway's Law
- The Law of Conservation of Complexity (Tesler's Law)
- The Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule)
- Chesterton's fence
- For more aphorisms see our Business Lingo Guide
- Ahead of the pack
- Get on the front foot
- Think outside of the box
- Unknown unknowns
- Win-win
- For more idioms see our Business Lingo Guide