Accuracy: Within the quality management system, accuracy is an
assessment of correctness.
Acquire Project Team:The process of confirming human
resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project
activities.
Acquisition: Obtaining human and material resources
necessary to perform project activities. Acquisition implies a cost of
resources, and is not necessarily financial.
Activity: A distinct, scheduled portion of work performed
during the course of a project.
Activity
Attributes: Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can
be included within the activity list. Activity attributes include activity
codes, predecessor activities, successor activities, logical relationships,
leads and lags, resource requirements, imposed dates, constraints, and
assumptions.
Activity
Code: One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the
work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and
ordering of activities within reports.
Activity Cost Estimates:The projected cost of the schedule
activity that includes the cost for all resources required to perform and
complete the activity, including all cost types and cost components.
Activity
Duration: The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule
activity. See also duration.
Activity
Duration Estimate: A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome
for the duration of an activity.
Activity
Identifier: A short, unique numeric or text identification assigned to each
schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other activities.
Typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram.
Activity
List: A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity
description, activity identifier, and a sufficiently detailed scope of work
description so project team members understand what work is to be performed.
Activity-on-Node
(AON): See precedence diagramming method (PDM).
Activity
Resource Requirements: The types and quantities of resources required for each
activity in a work package.
Actual
Cost (AC): The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity
during a specific time period.
Actual
Duration: The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the
schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the
schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule
activity is complete.
Adaptive
Life Cycle: A project life cycle, also known as change-driven or agile methods,
that is intended to facilitate change and require a high degree of ongoing
stakeholder involvement. Adaptive life cycles are also iterative and
incremental, but differ in that iterations are very rapid (usually 2–4 weeks in
length) and are fixed in time and resources.
Additional
Quality Planning Tools: A set of tools used to define the quality requirements
and to plan effective quality management activities. They include, but are not
limited to: brainstorming, force field analysis, nominal group techniques and
quality management and control tools.