Project Management Glossary
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Strategic planning
Strategic planning is when you take your organization’s abstract goals and turn them into a concrete strategy. The resulting plan usually includes your organization’s mission, vision, and values.
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Sunsetting
We’re shutting this service down and potentially fucking you over, but we don’t want you to feel bad so we’ll make you think about nice sunsets
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Table this discussion
I have no answer for you so let’s avoid the discussion all together, formally known as the Parking lot
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Take this off-line
Don’t make me embarrass you in public, let’s do that in private
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Technical debt
Technical debt encompasses the shortcuts taken when prioritizing speed in software projects. This means projects can launch sooner, but resources will have to be sacrificed down the line to rework these shortcuts and pay down that debt. This concept can be applied to other projects as well; all projects have their shortcuts.
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That’s a great question
I have no idea what the answer is to your question
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The net of it
Let me cut you off right there and just sum this up The net of it is, this could have simply been an email versus a meeting
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Tiger Team
A 1964 paper entitled Program Management in Design and Development used the term tiger teams and defined it as “a team of undomesticated and uninhibited technical specialists, selected for their experience, energy, and imagination, and assigned to track down relentlessly every possible source of failure in a spacecraft subsystem or simulation”. The paper consists of […]
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To reiterate
This is the last time I’m saying this
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Top line
don’t bore me with the details – see 30,000 Foot View
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Touch base
In the old game of tag your it, the person is technically safe when they are on base so let’s be safe and check in, because I might not fully trust you
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Traffic
The term used for the action of moving work between disciplines to extend work (copy to art or art to production) or moving work from draft to formal reviews for feedback collection – see Route
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Unpack this
I don’t understand what you just said, so please slow it down and explain it to me like i am a child. For example, “I want a website” Well let’s open and remove the contents of (a suitcase, bag, or package) that high level statement you just made and talk details – how many pages? […]
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Use case
A situation in which a product may be useful. For instance, a reader needing a quick definition for a specific project management term would be a use case for this blog post.
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Waterfall methodology
Waterfall is another approach to project management in which a project is completed in distinct step-by-step stages. The next stage cannot be started until the one previous is complete. Gantt charts are one visualization option for waterfall.
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Work breakdown structure
The work breakdown structure is a hierarchical breakdown of all deliverables required for a project to be considered complete. Project managers often use this methodology to track dependencies between tasks.
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Work From Home – Hot Take ft. Ed Hudson
One of WAV’s Digital Producers, Ed Hudson, Gives Us a Quick Take on How Working Remotely Compares to Working in His Previous Industry.
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Workflow audit
A workflow audit is a process through which a project manager finds the weak points of a particular workflow, usually to improve it.
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Workflow management
Workflow management covers the different approaches a project manager might take to streamline their workflows, make them efficient, and reduce the frequency of common blockers. Unito is a workflow management platform, allowing project managers to integrate their tools for smoother workflows.
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Workflow process
The workflow process covers the steps involved in building a workflow, mapping it out, and being able to communicate it to other teams.