Project Management Acronyms

Posted by Godzhesas | 6/11/2008 03:41:00 PM | | 0 comments »


I quess when you read stuff related to project management you find a lot of abbreviations, so i decided to gather some and share with you. Here are the first 15:


  1. WBS - Work Breakdown Structure: fundamental project management technique for projects scope definition and organization uses hierarchical tree structure.

  2. EVA - Economic Value Added: financial performance method to calculate the true profit of the company.

  3. BCWP - Budget Cost of Work Performed: measures the budgeted cost of work that has actually been performed up to date.

  4. ACWP - Actual Cost of Works Performed: total cost of work completed up to date.

  5. TM - Time Management. Check my post about time management

  6. PSI - Probability of Success Indicator: a concept used in the book "How to Run Successful Projects III: The Silver Bullet" by Fergus O'Connell.

  7. PMBOK - Project Management Body Of Knowledge: term describing knowledge in the field of project management.

  8. XP - Extreme Programming: software engineering methodology (a form of agile software development).

  9. RUP - Rational Unified Process: iterative software development process.

  10. 7P - Product, Price, Place, Promotion, People Process, Physical evidence: or the so called Extended Marketing Mix.

  11. PO - Purchase Order: written sales contract between buyer and seller indicating services, payment terms, delivery dates etc.

  12. SLA - Service Level Agreement: a part of a service contract, where the level of contract is formally defined.

  13. RFP/RFQ - Request For Proposal/Quotation

  14. NDA - Non-Disclosure Agreement: as well know as a confidentiality agreement.

  15. TCO - Total Cost of Ownership: how much it actually costs, direct and indirect costs.


Hope this will make thing a bit easier for you ;) Wait for other 15 soon!

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