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Introduction

In project management, terms may be used in different ways in different programs or different companies or project types. Looking at more exhaustive project management glossaries, one will find alternative definitions for most terms.

This list defines how certain terms are used in KPlato.

Terms

Account: An account is used in a Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) to represent a place where cost from tasks or resources can be agregated.

Allocation: Tasks are allocated to Resources during the planning stage of the project. The actual assigment is done during scheduling. Note that assigment is not guaranteed as the resource may not be available.

Assignment: Tasks are assigned to Resources during scheduling.

CBS: Cost Breakdown Structure

Cost Breakdown structure: The CBS organizes accounts into a structure to enable cost to be aggregated independent of the WBS and RBS.

Estimate: The estimate is the expected amount of effort or time needed to complete a task, can be seconds (s), minutes (m), hours (h), days (d).

Milestone: Todo

PERT: Program Evaluation and Review Technique

Program Evaluation and Review Technique: TODO

PERT Distribution: A simplified way to calculate Expected estimate from Optimistic-, Most Likely- and Pessimistic estimate.

RBS: Resource Breakdown Structure

Resource Breakdown Structure: The RBS organizes resources into resource groups.

Resource: A resource can be of type Work, Material or Team. A resource must always belong to a Resource Group.

Resource Group: A resource group is used to group similar resources.

Resource Team: A resource team is a resource that consists of a number of other resources.

Summary Task: Todo

Task: Todo

vCard: vCard is a file format standard for electronic business cards.

WBS: Work Breakdown Structure

Work Breakdown Structure: The WBS is used to break down large projects into manageable chuncks to ease planning and management.

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