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Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Planning

by Tom on December 2, 2008

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    • Definitions
      • A
        • Apportioned Effort (AE)
        • Arrow Diagramming Method (ADM) [Technique]
        • Accept
        • Acceptance
        • Acceptance Criteria
        • Acquire Project Team
        • Activity
        • Activity Attributes
        • Activity Code
        • Activity Definition
        • Activity Description
        • Activity Duration
        • Activity Duration Estimating
        • Activity Identifier
        • Activity List
        • Activity Resource Estimating [Process]
        • Activity Sequencing [Process]
        • Activity-on-Arrow (AOA)
        • Activity-on-Node
        • Actual Cost
        • Actual Cost of Work Performed (ACWP)
        • Actual Duration
        • Actual Finish Date (AF)
        • Actual Start Date (AS)
        • Analogous Estimating [Technique]
        • Application Area
        • Approval
        • Approve
        • Approved Change Request [Output/input]
        • Arrow
        • As-of Date
        • Assumptions Analysis [Technique]
        • Assumptions [Output/Input]
        • Authority
      • B
        • Backward Pass
        • Bar Chart [Tool]
        • Baseline
        • Baseline Finish Date
        • Baseline Start Date
        • Bill of materials (BOM)
        • Bottom-up Estimating [Technique]
        • Brainstorming [Technique]
        • Budget
        • Budget at Completion
        • Budgeted Cost of Work Performed
        • Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled
        • Buffer
        • Buyer
      • C
        • Calendar Unit
        • Change Control
        • Change Control Board (CCB)
        • Change Control System [Tool]
        • Change Request
        • Chart of Accounts
        • Charter
        • Checklist
        • Claim
        • Close Project
        • Closing Process
        • Co-location
        • Code of Accounts (in Project Management)
        • Common Cause
        • Communication (in project management)
        • Communication Management Plan
        • Communications Planning
        • Compensation
        • Component
        • Configuration Management System
        • Constraint
        • Contingency
        • Contingency Allowance
        • Contingency Reserve
        • Contract
        • Contract Administration
        • Contract Closure
        • Contract Management Plan
        • Contract Statement of Work
        • Contract Work Breakdown Structure
        • Control
        • Control Account
        • Control Account Plan
        • Control Limits
        • Controlling
        • Corrective Action
        • Cost
        • Cost Baseline
        • Cost Budgeting
        • Cost Control
        • Cost Estimating
        • Cost Management Plan
        • Cost of Quality (COQ)
        • Cost Performance Index
        • Cost Variance (CV)
        • Cost-Plus-Fee
        • Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) Contract
        • Cost-Plus-Percentage of Cost (CPPC)
        • Cost-Reimbursable Contract
        • Crashing
        • Create Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
        • Criteria
        • Critical Activity
        • Critical Chain Method
        • Critical Path
        • Critical Path Method (CPM)
        • Current Finish Date
        • Current Start Date
        • Customer
      • D
        • Data Date (DD)
        • Date
        • Decision Tree Analysis
        • Decomposition
        • Defect
        • Defect Repair
        • Deliverable
        • Delphi Technique
        • Dependency
        • Design Review
        • Develop Project Charter
        • Develop Project Management Plan
        • Develop Project Scope Statement (preliminary)
        • Develop Project Team
        • Direct and Manage Project Execution
        • Discipline
        • Discrete Effort
        • Document
        • Documented Procedure
        • Dummy Activity
        • Duration
      • E
        • Early Finish Date
        • Early Start Date
        • Earned Value
        • Earned Value Management
        • Earned Value Technique
        • Effort
        • Enterprise
        • Enterprise Environmental Factors
        • Estimate
        • Estimate at Completion
        • Estimate to Complete
        • Event
        • Exception Report
        • Execute
        • Executing
        • Executing Process
        • Execution
        • Expected Monetary Value Analysis
        • Expert Judgment
      • F
        • Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
        • Fast Tracking
        • Finish Date
        • Finish-to-Finish
        • Finish-to-Start
        • Firm-Fixed-Price Contract
        • Fixed-Price or Lump Sum Contract
        • Fixed-Price-Incentive-Fee Contract
        • Float
        • Flowcharting
        • Forecasts
        • Forward Pass
        • Free Float
        • Functional Manager
        • Functional Organization
        • Funds
      • G
        • Gantt Chart
        • Goods
        • Grade
        • Ground Rules
      • H
        • Hammock Activity
        • Historical Information
        • Human Resource Planning
      • I
        • Imposed Date
        • Influence Diagram
        • Influencer
        • Information Distribution
        • Initiating Process
        • Initiator
        • Input
        • Inspection
        • Integral
        • Integrated
        • Integrated Change Control
        • Invitation for Bid
        • Issue
      • K
        • Knowledge
        • Knowledge Area Process
        • Knowledge Area, Project Management
      • L
        • Lag
        • Late Finish Date
        • Late Start Date
        • Latest Revised Estimate
        • Lead (Technique)
        • Lessons Learned
        • Lessons Learned Knowledge Base
        • Level of Effort (LOE)
        • Leveling
        • Life cycle
        • Log
        • Logic
        • Logic Diagram
        • Logical Relationship
      • M
        • Manage Project Team
        • Manage Stakeholders
        • Master Schedule
        • Materiel
        • Matrix Organization
        • Methodology
        • Milestone
        • Milestone schedule
        • Monitor
        • Monitor and Control Project Work
        • Monitoring
        • Monitoring and Controlling Processes
        • Monte Carlo Analysis
      • N
        • Near-Critical Activity
        • Network
        • Network Analysis
        • Network Logic
        • Network Loop
        • Network Open End
        • Network Path
        • Networking [Technique]
        • Node
      • O
        • Objective
        • Operations
        • Opportunity
        • Organization
        • Organization Chart [Tool]
        • Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
        • Organizational Process Assets
        • Original Duration (OD)
        • Output
      • P
        • Parametric Estimating
        • Pareto Chart
        • Path Convergence
        • Path Divergence
        • Percent Complete (PC or PCT)
        • Perform Quality Assurance (QA)
        • Perform Quality Control (QC)
        • Performance Maintenance Baseline
        • Performance Reporting
        • Performance Reports
        • Performing Organization
        • Phase
        • Plan Contracting
        • Plan Purchases and Acquisitions
        • Planned Finish Date
        • Planned Start Date
        • Planned Value
        • Planning Package
        • Planning Processes
        • Portfolio
        • Portfolio Management
        • Position Description
        • Practice
        • Precedence Diagramming Method
        • Precedence Relationship
        • Predecessor Activity
        • Preventive Action
        • Probability and Impact Matrix
        • Procedure
        • Process
        • Process Group
        • Procurement Documents
        • Procurement Management Plan
        • Product
        • Product Life Cycle
        • Product Scope
        • Product Scope Description
        • Program
        • Program Management
        • Program Management Office
        • Progressive Elaboration
        • Project
        • Project Calendar
        • Project Charter
        • Project Communications Management
        • Project Cost Management
        • Project Human Resource Management
        • Project Initiation
        • Project Integration Management
        • Project Life Cycle
        • Project Management (PM)
        • Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
        • Project Management Information System (PMIS)
        • Project Management Knowledge Area
        • Project Management Office
        • Project Management Plan
        • Project Management Process
        • Project Management Process Group
        • Project Management Professional
        • Project Management Software
        • Project Management System
        • Project Management Team
        • Project Manager
        • Project Organization Chart
        • Project Phase
        • Project Process Groups
        • Project Procurement Management
        • Project Quality Management
        • Project Risk Management
        • Project Schedule
        • Project Schedule Network Diagram
        • Project Scope
        • Project Scope Management Plan
        • Project Scope Statement
        • Project Sponsor
        • Project Stakeholder
        • Project Summary Breakdown Structure
        • Project Team
        • Project Team Dictionary
        • Project team members
        • Project Time Management
        • Project Work
        • Projectized Organization
      • Q
        • Qualitative Risk Analysis
        • Quality
        • Quality Management Plan
        • Quality Planning
        • Quantitative Risk Analysis
      • R
        • Regulation
        • Reliability
        • Remaining Duration
        • Request for Information
        • Request for Proposal
        • Request for Quotation
        • Request Seller Responses
        • Requested Change
        • Requirement
        • Reserve
        • Reserve Analysis
        • Residual Risk
        • Resource
        • Resource Breakdown Structure
        • Resource Calendar
        • Resource Histogram
        • Resource Leveling
        • Resource Planning
        • Resource-constrained Schedule
        • Resource-Limited Schedule
        • Responsibility Assignment Matrix
        • Result
        • Retainage
        • Rework
        • Risk
        • Risk Acceptance
        • Risk Avoidance
        • Risk Breakdown Structure
        • Risk category
        • Risk Database
        • Risk identification
        • Risk management plan
        • Risk Management Planning
        • Risk Mitigation
        • Risk Monitoring and Control
        • Risk Register
        • Risk Response Planning
        • Risk Transference
        • Role
        • Rolling Wave Planning
        • Root Cause Analysis
      • S
        • S-Curve
        • Schedule
        • Schedule Activity
        • Schedule Analysis
        • Schedule Compression
        • Schedule Control
        • Schedule Development
        • Schedule Management Plan
        • Schedule Milestone
        • Schedule Model
        • Schedule Network Analysis
        • Schedule Performance Index
        • Scheduled Finish Date (SF)
        • Scheduled Start Date (SS)
        • Scheduled Variance
        • Scope
        • Scope Change
        • Scope Control
        • Scope Creep
        • Scope Definition
        • Scope Planning
        • Scope Verification
        • Secondary Risk
        • Select Sellers
        • Seller
        • Sensitivity Analysis
        • Service
        • Should-Cost Estimate
        • Simulation
        • Skill
        • Special Cause
        • Specification
        • Specification Limits
        • Sponsor
        • Staffing Management Plan
        • Stakeholder
        • Standard
        • Start Date
        • Start-to-Finish (SF)
        • Start-to-Start
        • Statement of Work
        • Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) Analysis
        • Subnetwork
        • Subphase
        • Subproject
        • Successor Activity
        • Summary Activity, Hammock Activity
        • SWAG
        • System
      • T
        • Target Completion Date
        • Target Finish Date
        • Target Schedule
        • Target Start Date (TS)
        • Task
        • Team Members
        • Technical Performance Measurement
        • Technique
        • Template
        • Threat
        • Three-Point Estimates
        • Thresholds
        • Time & Material (T&M) Contract
        • Time-Scaled Schedule Network Diagram
        • Tool
        • Total Float
        • Total Quality Management (TQM)
        • Trend Analysis [Technique]
        • Triggers
        • Triple Constraint
      • U
        • User
      • V
        • Validation
        • Value Engineering
        • Variance
        • Variance Analysis
        • Verification
        • Virtual Team
        • Voice of the Customer
      • W
        • War Room
        • Work
        • Work Authorization (Method)
        • Work Authorization System
        • Work Breakdown Structure
        • Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary
        • Work Package
        • Work Performance Information
        • Workaround
      • X
      • Z