Be on the Inside: Decode the Jargon of Project Management

New: 4th Edition:

The Best Free Guide to Project Management Terms... ANYWHERE!

Do you struggle to understand all the Project Management jargon you hear?

The world of project management is riddled with jargon and technical words. 

• Do you worry that you don't quite fit in with project management 'in crowd'?
• Do you wish you could understand everything your colleagues are saying at meetings?
• Do you get the feeling project management is actually quite simple, once you know the basics?
• Do you wish you had a simple guide to over 470 common project and project management terms?

Never be clueless again!

Get your free 'Decode the Jargon of Project Management' eBook, worth $17.

What you get

A 68 page, 15,000 word eBook in PDF format (30% larger than the 3rd Edition).

It has

• a simple introduction to Project Management, and
• a 474 item project management glossary (40% more than the 3rd Edition).
• a completely new 117 item acronym listing
• six completely new Special Features

Anyone who has spent time in a project management environment will know that there is a lot of project terminology and jargon.

Knowing this jargon will not make you a better project manager, but it does provide a quicker way to communicate with other project managers who know it.

And, knowing what it really means will also make it easier to speak with your stakeholders without resorting to jargon. People won't trust you, if they think you are using jargon to hide behind. We trust people who are plain-speaking, and whom we understand.

So, here is a summary of all of the essential project lingo that you will need, to get by.

This is the fourth edition (v4.0), published in October 2025. 

It contains 40% more entries, with over 470 project and project management terms.