Mastering Microsoft Project 2002

A project calendar lists time intervals in which activities or resources can or cannot be scheduled.

Any lower-level element in a hierarchical structure.

Any cost that will still be incurred even if the project is terminated.

The date calculated by which the project should be finished.

See project identification.

The ability to manage conflict effectively.

A restriction that affects the scope of a project, typically one of the four basic parameters of a project (time, scope, performance, and costs). Within Microsoft Project, a constraint is specifically a restriction on the start or finish date of a task.

Any resource that remains available until used.

The planned allotment of time and cost for unforeseeable events within a project.

The development of a plan that uses alternative strategies to complete a project should specified undesirable events occur.

The general pattern of how scheduled work is distributed over time.

An expense, either external or internal.

The process of predicting the costs of a project.

The effective financial control of a project through constant evaluation of a projectís costs.

The ratio of budgeted or baseline costs to actual costs.

The difference between a taskís planned cost and its actual cost.

See cost performance index.

See Critical Path Method.

To decrease a projectís overall duration with changing task relationships.

See zero float.

A series of consecutive activities that represent the longest path through a project; the series of tasks that must be completed on schedule for a project to finish on time.

A network scheduling method, originally developed by J.E. Kelly and M.R. Walker to manage maintenance projects in chemical manufacturing facilities, that defines all the projectís critical activities that must be completed on time.

A task that must be completed on schedule for a project to finish on time.

Creating dependencies between tasks in different Project files.

See cost variance.