Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In project management, a terminal element is the lowest element (activity or deliverable) in a work breakdown structure; it is not further subdivided. Terminal elements are the items that are estimated in terms of resource requirements, budget and duration, linked by dependencies and scheduled. A terminal element is sometimes called a work package, although the two terms are not synonymous. See also: 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. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.