project management glossary

thresholds

Monetary, time, or resource values used as parameters, which if breached will cause some type of management action to occur.

Activities that have to be performed sequentially or within a predetermined time of each other.

An activity that must start within a specified time or immediately after its predecessor's completion.

A team established to focus on visibility, status, evaluation, and recommendations by experts relative to an area of concern.

The measure of duration.

The process of calculating the early and late dates for each activity on a project, based on their duration and the logical relations between them.