Introduction to project management/IPM103/Time/Glossary

Glossary

Activity

"1. A task, job, operation or process consuming time and possibly other resources. 2. The smallest self-contained unit of work in a project."

Dependency

"Dependencies on a project are the relationships between activities whereby one activity must do something (finish-to-start) before another activity can do something (start-to-finish)."

Float

"In a project network is the amount of time that a task in a project network can be delayed without causing a delay to subsequent tasks and or the project completion date."

Precedence network

"A network diagram in which activities are represented by rectangles (nodes) and their dependencies are represented by arrows."

Schedule development

"This process calculates and prepares the schedule of project activities, which becomes the schedule baseline. It determines activity start and finish dates, finalizes activity sequences and durations, and assigns resources to activities."

Tasks

"In project management, a task is an activity that needs to be accomplished within a defined period of time."

Work Breakdown Structure

"A work breakdown structure (WBS), in project management and systems engineering, is a deliverable-oriented decomposition of a project into smaller components." - see also

Work package

"A group of related activities that are defined at the same level within a work breakdown structure."