Project Planning & Process Maturity

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Abstractions about scheduling, critical paths, effort estimation, priority methods, process maturity, analytics workflows, and collaborative project management.

7 abstractions in this family — domain-specific abstractions that sit near one another in structural-signature space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its short description.

• Capability Maturity Model — A staged process-improvement model that assesses organizational software practice from ad hoc execution through defined, measured and continuously optimizing control.
• Critical path method — A project-network scheduling method that propagates activity durations and precedence constraints to find the longest start-to-finish path, minimum planned completion time and the float available to noncritical activities.
• Cross-industry standard process for data mining — A six-phase iterative process model for organizing data-mining projects from business understanding through deployment.
• Gantt chart — A time-scaled bar chart that represents project activities, planned or actual start and finish dates, progress, milestones and often dependency relationships.
• MoSCoW method — A time-boxed requirements-prioritization method classifying items as Must have, Should have, Could have or Won’t have this time.
• Social project management — A project-management approach that uses persistent social-network-style communication and shared activity streams to coordinate distributed participants through open, many-to-many work visibility.
• Three-point estimation — An estimation method that combines optimistic, most-likely and pessimistic values into an approximate expected outcome and spread.