Chapter 1 Terms

DevOps

a culture of collaboration between software development and operations teams to build, test, and release reliable software more quickly.

Organizational Project Management

a framework in which portfolio, program, and project management are integrated with organizational enablers in order to achieve strategic objectives.

Program

a group of related projects, subprograms, and program activities managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.

Servant leader

a leadership style in which people focus on relationships and community first and leadership is secondary.

Charismatic

a leadership style in which people inspire others based on their enthusiasm and confidence.

Interactional

a leadership style in which people use a combination of transactional, transformational, and charismatic approaches.

Transformational

a leadership style in which people work with others to identify needed changes to empower others and guide changes through inspiration.

Laissez-faire

a leadership style meaning "let go," this hands-off approach lets teams determine their own goals and how to achieve them.

Transactional

a leadership style using a management by exception approach that focuses on achieving goals or compliance by offering team members appropriate rewards and punishments.

Manager

a person who deals with the day-to-day details of meeting specific goals.

Leader

a person who focuses on long-term goals and big-picture objectives while inspiring people to reach those goals.

Program Manager

a person who provides leadership and direction for the project managers heading the projects within a program.

Ethics

a set of principles that guides decision making based on personal values of what is considered right and wrong.

Gantt chart

a standard format for displaying project schedule information by listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in a calendar format; sometimes referred to as bar charts.

Project

a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.

Megaproject

a very large project that typically costs over US$1 billion, affects over one million people, and lasts several years.

Project Management Institute [PMI]

an international professional society for project managers.

Best Practice

an optimal way recognized by industry to achieve a stated goal or objective.

Project Management Office [PMO]

an organizational group responsible for coordinating the project management functions throughout an organization.

Triple constraint

balancing scope, time, and cost goals.

Project Management Professional [PMP]

certification provided by PMI that requires documenting project experience and education, agreeing to follow the PMI code of ethics, and passing a comprehensive exam.

Project Management tools & techniques

methods available to assist project managers and their teams; some popular time-management tools include Gantt charts, network diagrams, and critical path analysis.

Project Management Knowledge areas

project integration management, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management.

Portfolio

projects, programs, subsidiary portfolios, and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.

Project and Portfolio Management Software

software that integrates information from multiple projects to show the status of active, approved, and future projects across an entire organization; also called enterprise project management software

Enterprise Project Management Software

software that integrates information from multiple projects to show the status of active, approved, and future projects across an entire organization; also called portfolio project management software

Project Portfolio Management or Portfolio Management

when organizations group and manage projects as a portfolio of investments that contribute to the entire enterprise's success.

Project Manager

the person responsible for working with the project sponsor, the project team, and the other people involved to meet project goals.

Project sponsor

the person who provides the direction and funding for a project.

Stakeholders

people involved in or affected by project activities.

Project Management

the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.