Use of PMI®'s 2004 Glossary
(that you should know about)
For purposes of updating the Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management
Terms v4.0 ("Our Glossary") and introducing new project management terms and
definitions that we have encountered in the last couple of years, we have reviewed
a variety of sources. These sources include the Project Management Institute's
("PMI") latest A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge,
3rd. Edition, published in 2004 ("2004 Guide"). In our review of this 2004
Guide we found that by far the majority of terms are either already covered
by terms previously existing in our Glossary, or are specific to the 2004 Guide.
Examples of the latter are all the process labels that in any case are self-evident.
Nevertheless, out of the total 447 entries, we did find 32 terms and their
respective characterizations that we felt would add value to Our Glossary.
Accordingly, we sought the Institute's permission to quote them. The Institute's response was that we could do so by signing the Institute's applicable copyright agreement and upon payment of US$10 per definition, up to a maximum of $200 for the entire document. However, the Institute's copyright agreement would not include permission for any user of our Glossary to make use of these definitions without permission from PMI and payment of the corresponding fee.
Since this limitation would be counter to our collegial policy and hence not
acceptable, we have not included in Our Glossary update any of PMI's 2004 Guide
definitions. The 32 terms, whose descriptions we would like to have included,
are listed below for information only. Readers wishing to examine PMI's interpretation
of these particular terms must refer to the 2004 Guide's glossary. The copyright
restriction mentioned above does not extend to those definitions already included
in Our Glossary and flagged as sourced from PMI's earlier documents.
By way of interest, we did seek clarification of PMI's position regarding the use of the 2004 Guide, and its 2004 Glossary, that PMI members and others may wish to adopt for any of their projects. On this aspect, we received the following advice:
PMI intends that the 2004 Guide should become a worldwide project management standard to be used in connection with any type of project. Project managers wishing to adopt the 2004 Guide on their projects, and hence have need to copy and/or print the 2004 Guide's glossary in whole or in part for distribution to their team, may do so free of charge. However, they must still obtain specific permission from PMI in order to do so without copyright infringement. For anyone wishing to include the 2004 Guide's glossary in a product for resale may do so by paying the $200 fee to PMI and observing the copyright conditions noted earlier.
The 32 terms we identified and whose characterizations we found interesting are:
Actual Cost; Bill of Materials; Budget; Change Control System; Common Cause; Contract Statement of Work; Documented Procedure; Enterprise Environmental Factors; Human Resource Planning; Influence Diagram; Initiator; Invitation for Bid; Network Open End; Organization; Organizational Process Assets; Performance Measurement Baseline; Planning Package; Practice; Preventive Action; Product Scope; Product Scope Description; Project Charter; Project Scope; Project Scope Statement; Project Summary Work Breakdown Structure; Quality; Resource Breakdown Structure; Risk Breakdown Structure; Rolling Wave Planning; Scope Creep; Template; and Work Authorization System.
Footnote
For the record, the forgoing text has been submitted to the Project Management
Institute for verification of accuracy of the advice we received. We did
this on the understanding that if we receive no response we would conclude
that the information is correct. We have received no response. If the Institute
should decide to improve their policy, and we are notified, we will correct
the
content accordingly.
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