Glossary Term T206 Modern Project Management

Deliberately adapting a method, standard or framework to fit the specific project, team and organization.

The official, free definition of Scrum written by its creators Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; current version from 2020.

The open project management method of the Swiss federal administration, supporting classic and agile development within one framework.

PRojects IN Controlled Environments: a process-based method with roots in the UK government, built on seven principles, seven practices and seven processes.

The Individual Competence Baseline of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), describing project competences in three areas: Perspective, People and Practice.

The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, the global standard published by the Project Management Institute (PMI); its 8th edition (2025) covers predictive, adaptive and hybrid approaches.

A framework for applying agile practices across many teams, organized in Agile Release Trains that plan together every 8 to 12 weeks.

A cap on the number of work items allowed in a workflow stage at the same time (WIP = work in progress); it reduces multitasking and exposes bottlenecks.

A visual board that shows work items moving through the stages of a workflow, typically with limits on how much work may be in progress at each stage.

A shared, formal description of the quality an increment must meet before it counts as done.