project-management - Concepts
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Concepts
- Backlog - A prioritized list of all desired work items for a product or project.
- Burndown Chart - A visual graph showing remaining work over time to track sprint or project progress.
- Critical Path Method - A project scheduling technique identifying the longest sequence of dependent tasks.
- Kanban - A visual workflow management method using boards and cards.
- Planning Fallacy Mitigation - Strategies and techniques to combat the tendency to underestimate time, costs, and complexity in planning.
- Pre-Mortem Analysis - A risk assessment technique that imagines a project has failed before it begins to identify potential causes of failure.
- Project Charter - A foundational document that formally authorizes a project and defines its scope.
- RACI Matrix - A responsibility assignment matrix: Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed.
- Scope Creep - The gradual expansion of project boundaries beyond original definitions.
- Scrum - An agile framework for managing complex work through iterative sprints and defined roles.
- Scrumban - A hybrid agile approach combining Scrum's structure with Kanban's flow-based principles.
- Sprint - A fixed-length iteration in Scrum where a team completes a set of committed work.
- Stakeholder Management - The systematic process of identifying, analyzing, and engaging project stakeholders.
- Task Weights - Assigning abstract weight values to tasks to understand their relative size compared to other items in a backlog.
- Waterfall Methodology - A sequential project management approach where phases flow downward like a waterfall.
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) - A hierarchical decomposition of a project into smaller, manageable components.
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