Project Management Terms

What is in this deck

With this deck you learn the vocabulary a project actually runs on: scope, schedule and cost, the critical path, earned value, risk responses and the agile terms that sit beside them.

A project is temporary and produces something unique. Operations are neither. That one distinction decides which discipline applies, and it is where this deck starts.

100 cards through the vocabulary that a project actually runs on: the triple constraint and why scope creep is a control failure rather than a customer problem, the critical path and what float really means, earned value and the four numbers it needs, risk with its probability and impact, and the contracts that decide who carries the uncertainty. The agile half is here too, because most organisations run both and the terms get mixed.

No certification body's material is reproduced here. The terms are the field's common vocabulary, and any exam you sit has its own current syllabus, which remains the authority.

The categories decide what comes up: start with “Agile” alone and add the rest when you are ready.

What you learn

• Scope, schedule and cost, and what a baseline is for
• Critical path, float, lead and lag
• Earned value: the four numbers and what each tells you
• Risk responses, and the four contract types
• Agile terms, and where they meet the predictive ones

The categories

12 categories sort the 100 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.

1. Agile
2. Closing
3. Control
4. Estimating
5. Foundations
6. Initiating
7. People
8. Planning
9. Procurement
10. Quality
11. Risk
12. Scheduling

Learning with Qardbox

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