Project Management Glossary Of Terms – B

BAC

Back Charge

Backward Pass

Bad Debts

Balance

Balanced Matrix

Balanced Scorecard

Balanced Scorecard Approach (“BSA”)

Bank

Banking

Bar Chart

Bargaining

Bargaining Power

Barriers

Base

Bar Chart

Baseline

Baseline at Completion (“BAC”)

Baseline Concept

Baseline Control

Baseline Cost

Baseline Dates

Baseline Finish Date

Baseline Management

Baseline Plan

Baseline Review

Baseline Schedule

Baseline Start Date

Basis of Estimate

Batch

Batch Operation

BATNA

BCM

BCWP

BCWS

BEC

Behavior

Behavior Analysis

Benchmark

Benchmarking

Beneficial Occupancy/Use

Benefits

Benefits Framework

Benefits Management

Benefits Management Plan

Benefits Management Regime

Benefits Profiles

Benefits Realization Phase

Best Alternative to Negotiated Agreement (“BATNA”)

Best and Final Contract Offer

Best and Final Offer

Best Efforts Contract

Best Practices

Beta Distribution

Beta Test

Beta testing

Bid

Bid Analysis

Bid Bond

Bid Cost Considerations

Bid Document Preparation

Bid Documents

Bid Evaluation

Bid List

Bid Package

Bid Protests

Bid Qualifications

Bid Response

Bid Technical Consideration

Bid Time Consideration

Bid/No Bid Decision

Bidder

Bidders Conference

Bidders List

Bidders Source Selection

Bidding

Bidding Strategy

Bill

Bill of Materials

Bills of Materials

Blanket Purchase Agreement (“BPA”)

Blueprint

Board

Boiler Plate

Bona Fide

Bond

Bonus

Bonus Schemes

Booking Rates

BOOT

Bottom Up Cost Estimate

Bottom Up Cost Estimating

Bottom Up Estimating

Boundary

BPA

BPR

Brainstorming

Branching Logic

Breach of Contract

Breadboarding

Break Even

Breakdown

Breakdown Structure

Break-Even Chart

Break-Even Point

Bribe

BSA

Buck Passing

Budget

Budget at Completion (“BAC”)

Budget Cost

Budget Costs

Budget Decrement

Budget Element

Budget Estimate

Budget Presentation

Budget Revision

Budget Unit

Budgetary Control

Budgeted

Budgeted Cost of Work Performed (“BCWP”)

Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled (“BCWS”)

Budgeting

Budgeting & Cost Management

Build

Build, Own, Operate, Transfer (“BOOT”)

Buildability

Building

Building Professionalism

Build-to Documentation

Built-in Test Equipment

Bulk Material

Burden

Burden of Proof

Bureaucracy

Burn Rate

Burst Node

Business Actor

Business Appraisal

Business Area

Business Assurance

Business Assurance Coordinator

Business Case

Business Change Manager (“BCM”)

Business Creation

Business Engineering

Business Imperative

Business Improvement

Business Manager

Business Modeling

Business Needs

Business Objectives

Business Operations

Business Process

Business Process Engineering

Business Process Reengineering (“BPR”)

Business Processes

Business Risk

Business Rule

Business Transition Plan

Business Unit

Buyer

Buy-In

Bypassing