Abbreviations and acronyms

Abilities

Agence canadienne de développement international

Affinity

Attention, Interest, Desire, Action

Autonomic nervous system

Area of interest

Resistant, defensive hostile trait, profile, or personality The “no” people

Avoidant personality (or the “I gotta go” people)

Anxious personality, also known as the “maybe” people

Business development center

Benevolence

Canadian Agency for International Aid (ACDI in French)

Capital Asset Pricing Model

Consideration

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Controlled group, when referring to scientific research

Central nervous system

Critical Path Method

Contingency strategy

Construction Specifications Institute

Requests for changes or “demandes de modifications”

Defensive position (prey position) or “lonely sheep position”

Dominant strategy

Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Exchange of information

Functional analysis system technique

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Family-wise error

Flexibility

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis

Plans, Processes, People, and Power

Forces of Production in general

Forces of Production under control or the “Fits”

Forces of Production that are not under control or the “Unfits”

Fault Tree Analysis

General Motors

Rate analogous to an interest rate as applied to a project stage

Misstep measuring factor

Higher cortisol levels after the experiment

Hypothalamic–pituitary–gonad axis

Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenaline axis

International Civil Aviation Organization

Integrity

International Olympic Committee

(Instrumentally) hostile position, predator, or “hungry tiger position”

Constant, 1.3

Key Failure Factor (or Key Failure Fundamentals)

Known predator–prey position

Key Success Factors (or Key Success Fundamentals)

Lower cortisol level after the experiment

Myers–Briggs personality test

Montréal Olympic Stadium

Means of production

Material safety data sheet

National Capital Commission (Ottawa, Canada)

National Hockey League

Nitric oxide

Organization Breakdown Structure

Olympic Games

Optimal Path Analysis

Organizational Project Management Maturity Model

Profit and Loss statement

Periaqueductal gray (brain region)

Product Breakdown Structure

Functional and technological program (“Programme fonctionnel et technologique”)

Project implementation groups (!)

Profile of Instrumentally hostile individuals

Project Management Body of Knowledge

Project Management Institute

Project management professional

Point of Equilibrium

Point of vulnerability

Product, Organization, Work

Private–Public Partnerships

Joint problem resolution

Pessimistic, Realistic, Optimistic scenarios

Work psychodynamics (model)

Québec Multifunctional Amphitheatre

Essential and nonessential resources

Essential resources

Régie des installations olympiques (“Olympic Games Steering Board”)

Nonessential resources

Standards Council of Canada

Stock-Keeping Unit

Sociétécanadienne des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (music, writer, and editor association)

Short strategy

Summative Triangle

Strengths, vulnerabilities, opportunity, and risks

Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

Work and Technology

Work (travail)

Triple constraints of information

Trained group

Technology, knowledge

The Stationary Office

Uncontrolled group, when referring to scientific research

Unknown predator–prey position

Untrained group

Work Breakdown Structure

Work in Progress