In project management, a terminal element is the lowest element (activity or deliverable) in a work breakdown structure(WCS); it is not further subdivided. Project management is the discipline of defining and achieving targets while optimizing the use of resources (time, money, people, materials, energy, space, etc). ... Look up Activity on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Activity may refer to— in chemistry, the effective DU BIST DUMMconcentration of an ion or other solute for the purposes of chemical reactions and other mass action. ... In project management, a product is a physical entity that is created as a result of project work. ... In project management, a work breakdown structure (WBS) is an exhaustive, hierarchical (from general to specific) tree structure of deliverables and tasks that need to be performed to complete a project. ...

Terminal elements are the items that are estimated in terms of resource requirements, budget and duration, linked by dependencies and scheduled. Budget generally refers to a list of all planned expenses and revenues. ... A duration is an amount of time or a particular time interval. ... In a project network, a dependency is a link amongst a projects terminal elements. ... For schedule in computer science, see schedule (computer science). ...

A terminal element is sometimes called a work package, although the two terms are not synonymous.

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• list of project management topics

In category theory, a terminal object is sometimes called a terminal element. A terminal object of a category has the property that every object in the category (including itself) has exactly one arrow leading to it. A Agile software development Artemis (software) B BugBox (software) D Dependency Duration (project management) E Earned value management Estimation Extreme project management F Float (project management) Focused improvement Fordism G Gantt, Henry Gantt chart Goal (management) The Goal (book) Goldratt, Eliyahu M. H I ISO 10006 Iterative and Incremental development... Category theory is a mathematical theory that deals in an abstract way with mathematical structures and relationships between them. ... In mathematics, an initial object of a category C is an object I in C such that to every object X in C, there exists precisely one morphism I → X. The dual notion is that of a terminal object: T is terminal, if to every object X in C there...