Project Management
Charrette
A charrette is an intense period of design or planning activity similar to the short daily stand-up meetings that take place in Scrum or Agile project management methods. Charrette – Wikipedia A charrette (American pronunciation: /ˈʃɑːrɛt/), often Anglicized to...Cards-On-The-Wall (COW) Networking Technique
A method of project planning described in the book Visualizing Project Management: Models and Frameworks for Mastering Complex Systems as emerging as a visualization tool used by PERT planners to visualize their project network in the years before modern day project...Schedule of Rates (SoR)
A term perhaps more commonly used overseas than here in the U.S. where we at times refer to a Schedule of Values a schedule of rates is ….in its lesser form in a standard contract can be a list of staff, types of labour and plant hire rates upon which...Work Package (WP)
A generic term for a unit within a work breakdown structure (WBS ) at the lowest level of its branch, not necessarily at the lowest level of the whole WBS . It may be used to refer to a unit of work performed within the organization, while ‘Commitment Package’ may be...Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
A task oriented detailed breakdown, which defines the work packages and tasks at a level above that defined in the networks and schedules. The WBS initiates the development of the Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS), and the Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS). It...The Building & Remodeling Wiki Sponsors:
