The vocabulary the exams and the daily work both assume you already have. Every entry gives the definition, the source it is drawn from, and the misreadings that follow from getting it wrong.
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Enterprise environmental factors and organisational process assets in plain terms, the routes by which market, regulatory, supply chain, geopolitical and economic change reach a project, and what to do about the things a project cannot control.
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Six principles carry the mindset the eighth edition expects of a project manager. They set a direction for judgement, and none of them prescribes an action.
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The argument for why this project was funded ahead of the alternatives, including doing nothing, and the document that decides whether it should carry on being funded.
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The official document that creates a project, records the decision to do the work, and names the person who will manage it. A sponsor issues it, and the project manager may write the first draft.
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A standing function that supports, controls or directs project work, and the question of which of those three it is, since that settles almost every argument about whether it is useful.
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Where the project manager's accountability goes when a team is self managing and the work is ordered by somebody else, and what the role does that nobody else on an adaptive team is doing.
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The agreement a team makes with itself about how it will work, written by the team, and useful mainly at the moment somebody breaks it.
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A hierarchical decomposition of the total scope into deliverables, governed by the hundred per cent rule and bottoming out at work packages with a dictionary behind them.
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Burn charts, information radiators and the small set of measures that tell a sponsor where an adaptive project stands, without requiring the team to produce a parallel report.
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What distance actually takes away from a team, and the deliberate practices that put some of it back.
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