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Pace of work
Padding in schedules 2nd
Paradox of power 2nd
Parameters
     refining
     work breakdown structure (WBS)
Partnering with counterparts 2nd
Passive voice
Pay raises
PDM (precedence diagramming method) 2nd
Percent completion 2nd 3rd
Performance 2nd
Performance indicators
Performance power 2nd
Performance reviews 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
Performance testing 2nd
Perks
Personal information
Personal values
Personality power 2nd
Personnel performance reviews 2nd 3rd
PERT (program evaluation and review techniques) 2nd
Planned value (PV) 2nd
Planning
     communications 2nd 3rd
     deployment
     final
     finalizing 2nd 3rd
     operations
     quality 2nd 3rd
     resistance to
     steps of 2nd
     time for
     training
PMI (Project Management Institute)
Political change 2nd
Political countermeasures
     communications plan
     project team 2nd
     user involvement
Political environments
     communicating
     personal values
     political change
     politics 2nd
     positive relationships 2nd
     sharing power
Political logjams
     high-level support
Politics 2nd
Portfolios
Positional power 2nd
Positive relationships 2nd
Post-It notes
Potential solutions 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
Power 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
     expertise power
     informational
     performance power 2nd
     positional 2nd
     resource 2nd
Praise
Precedence diagramming method (PDM) 2nd
Precision 2nd 3rd
Presentation
Prevention versus correction
Priorities 2nd
Prioritizing
Problem statements
Problem-solving guidelines
Problems 2nd
Problems with budgets
     assets are moved off project 2nd
     big biters 2nd
     funds expended up front
     matrix organization
     personal conflict 2nd
     shrinkage
     too many approvals required
     whiners
Problems with customers
     impossible project 2nd
     project doesn't meet needs 2nd
     user is picking and choosing among deliverables
     user requirements have changed 2nd
     users are not pleased with project results
Problems with project vendors
     product or service does not meet specifications
     vendor does not communicate
     vendor does not deliver as promised
Problems with quality
     fixing the wrong problem 2nd
     initial results do not meet quality standards
     problems cannot be resolved 2nd
     problems reappear
     work delivered outside of scope 2nd
Problems with schedules
     everything is on the critical path
     floating completion date
     floating start date
     late start 2nd
     missed deadline or deliverable
     nothing is on the critical path
Problems with scope
     scope creep
     scope not feasible
     vague scope definition 2nd
     wrong approach 2nd
Problems with sponsors
     can't meet with sponsor 2nd
     lengthy project report
     meetings become rehash of prior decisions 2nd
     pressure from sponsor
Processes
     clearly defined 2nd
     defining 2nd
     for project teams
     projects
     quality management
Program evaluation and review techniques (PERT)
Programs
Progress
     knowledge work
     reporting 2nd
Progress reports 2nd
Project 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th
Project charter 2nd 3rd 4th
Project interfaces
Project management (PM)
     delegating
     overview
     process overview 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
     software 2nd 3rd
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) 2nd 3rd 4th
Project Management Institute (PMI) 2nd
Project steps
     closing out projects 2nd 3rd 4th
     defining projects 2nd
     managing projects 2nd 3rd
     organizing projects 2nd
     planning projects 2nd 3rd
     planning quality 2nd 3rd
     tracking projects
Projects
     administrative closure 2nd
     bug reports
     change requests
     constraints
     costs 2nd 3rd
     defining 2nd 3rd
     final team meeting 2nd 3rd
     finishing
     issues log
     lessons learned 2nd
     managers
     operational transfer
     parameters 2nd
     project mission statements 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
     schedules 2nd 3rd 4th
     solutions 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
     support for
     work orders
Promotion
Pronouncing names 2nd
Proposals
     approval 2nd 3rd
     developing 2nd 3rd 4th
     validating 2nd
PV (planned value)