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| Rolling Wave Planning | A form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail and future work is planned at a higher level of the WBS. |
| Templates | A standard activity list or a portion of an activity list form a previous project is often usable as a template for a new project. |
| Activity List | A comprehensive list including all schedule activities required on the project. |
| Activity Attributes | The description of the activity by identify the multiple components associated with each activity. T |
| Milestone | A significant point or event in a project. |
| Milestone List | Identifies all milestones and indicates whether the millstone is mandatory, such as those required by contract, or optional, such as those based upon historical information |
| Sequence activities | The process of identifying and documenting relations among the project activities. A |
| Gantt Chart | Graphic display of schedule related information. |
| Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM) | A schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes (or nodes). |
| finish-to-start | The logical relationship where initiation of work of the successor activity depends upon the completion of work of the predecessor activity. |
| finish-to-finish | The logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity. |
| start-to-start | The logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity. |
| start-to-finish | The logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity. |
| Mandortory | Dependencies that are contractually required or inherent in the nature of the work. |
| Discretionary | Dependencies based on knowledge of best practices within a particular application area or some unusual aspect of the project where a specific sequence it desired |
| External | Dependencies which involve a relationship between project activities and non-project activities. T |
| Lead | A modification of a logical relationship that allows an acceleration of the successor activity. |
| Lag | A modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. F |
