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Gary FranceMember for 22 years 11 months
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Dear PPer’s

The PEO has today launched it’s Glossary of Terms on the PEO website.

The purpose of this Glossary is to provide common understanding to the terms frequently found in the planning and scheduling disciplines. The PEO is deeply indebted to and wishes to thank David Bordoli who has spent considerable time and effort in creating this glossary. David has done a terrific job and I am sure that you will agree with me that we should applaud him for his considerable efforts in this.

Comment and feedback will be welcome to add new entries or definitions, especially those that are terms specific to planners and schedulers in specific industries and different countries.

You can find the Glossary here

Best Wishes,

Gary France
Chairman
Planning Engineers Organisation
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    Norzul Ibrahim ·
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    Gary & David,

    Good job. We should have somekind of "star" voting to those who have contributed something to this forum Please refer to Engr-Tips Forum.

    Engr-Tips Forum

    Regarding the glossary, is it different from the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) - American National Std? In our company normally we use this standard as our reference.

    Thanks

    norzul
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    David Bordoli ·
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    Norzul

    Thanks for your support.

    The Glossary is meant to be specific to Planning and Programming. There are quite a few excellent Project Management glossaries around and they include many, but not all, of the definitions in the PEO Glossary. Also, of course Programme Management glossaries include many other definitions that are not strictly of importance to planners and schedulers.

    Naturally some of the definitions in the PEO Glossary will be similar, or even the same, as in other glossaries (after all there are only so many words in the English language with which to describe things), however, I have tried to aim for ease of understanding and use.

    As Gary says comment and feedback is welcome, where possible please address feedback should be addressed to glossary@planningengineers.org (I might not always notice comments on PP)
    Regards

    David
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    Bernard Ertl ·
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    Nice work David. That must have taken some time.

    I’d suggest adding:

    Schedule Logic - the relationships and constraints that determine the activity timetable

    Bernard Ertl
    InterPlan Systems
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    Ritchie Fadrigalan ·
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    dear all,the link is not

    dear all,

    the link is not working anymore. is there any other link?

    ritch

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    Mike Testro ·
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    Hi RitchieThe Planning

    Hi Ritchie

    The Planning Engineers Organisation closed down a few years ago when Gary retired.

    It was a great loss to the planning community.

    Best regards

    Mike Testro

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    Jack Black ·
    #6

    Here are a couple of links

    Here are a couple of links that might be helpful:

    PMBOK® Glossary Terms and Definitions

    Microsoft Project® Fields, Terms and Definitions

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