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1. A collection of formal (note: not informal) documented procedures - which defines how the documentation and project deliverables will be managed - changed and approved.
Schedule Compression
Collect Requirements
Define Activities
Change Control System
2. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project satisfies the needs for which it is undertaken. It includes quality planning - performing quality assurance and control.
Control Costs
Statistical Sampling
Project Quality Management
Risk Database
3. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.
Constraints
Prototypes
Staffing Pool Description
Project Stakeholders
4. Outcome of activities performed to accomplish the project.
Project Planning Methodology
Risk Register
Work Results
Quality Management Plan
5. This compares technical accomplishments during project execution with the project management plan's schedule of technical achievement.
Quality Metrics
Technical performance measurement
Brainstorming
Performance Reviews
6. The total amount of time that a schedule activity may be delayed from its early start without delaying the project finish date - or violating a schedule constraint. Calculated using the critical path method technique and determining the difference be
Workaround plans
Work Results
Plan Quality
Total Float
7. Used to generate - classify - and prioritize product requirements. Some methods used to reach group decisions are: unanimity - majority - plurality - and dictatorship.
Group Decision Making Techniques
Focus groups
Project Cost Management
Initiation
8. Meetings that are regularly scheduled to exchange and analyze information about the project and its performance.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Formal acceptance and closure
Status Review Meetings
Fixed- price contracts
9. Project Simulation uses a model that translates the specified detailed uncertainties of the project into their potential impact on project objectives.
Simulation
Group Creativity Techniques
Project Procurement Management
Plan Quality
10. The planned dates to perform schedule activities and the planned dates for meeting schedule milestones. Includes planned start and finish dates for the project's activities - milestones - work packages - planning packages - and control accounts. This
Quality
Project Schedule
Quality Assurance
Project Communications Management
11. Special category of revised cost estimates to an approved cost baseline.
Training
Stakeholder Analysis
Similarities between Operations and Projects
Prevention vs. Inspections
12. Broader view of Project Cost Management - whereby other than project costs - we consider the effect of project decisions on the cost of using the project's product.
Decision Tree
Procurement performance reviews
Program
Life Cycle Costing
13. The calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal - such as the budget at completion (BAC) or the estimate at completion (EAC). It is the ratio of 'remaining work' to the 'fu
Control Scope
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Project Plan
14. Process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - ad making changes and corrections as needed.
Precedence Relationships
Quality Management Plan
Administer procurements
Project Assumption Testing
15. Provide a structure that ensures a comprehensive process of systematically identifying risks to a consistent level of detail and contributes to the effectiveness and quality of the Identify Risks process. They include categories like technical - exte
Sequence Activities
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Plan Communications
Risk Categories
16. Describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project.
Direct costs
Interviews
Requirements Documentation
Project Closeout
17. A structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project's scope of work is assigned to a person or team. It illustrates the connections between work pac
Program
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Templates
Forecasting
18. Process of assessing and combining the impact and the likelihood of identified risks. Prioritizes risks according to their potential effect on project objectives for further analysis or action.
Revised Cost Estimates
Staffing Pool Description
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Group Creativity Techniques
19. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on the project objective.
Risk
Corrective Action
Proposal
Project Files
20. Provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing common understanding of the project scope among the stakeholders
Scope Statement
Conditional Diagramming Methods
Grade
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
21. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.
Plan Communications
Prototypes
Constraints
Observations
22. Includes identified risks - risk owners - results of Perform qualitative risk analysis process - agreed upon response strategies - etc.
Product Description
Proposals
Risk Register
Organization Breakdown Structure
23. Process of developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives. Includes the identification and assignment of individuals to take responsibility for each agreed-to and funded risk response.
Plan Risk Responses
Change Control System
Project Human Resource Management
Flowcharts
24. The process of analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements - and schedule constrains to create the project schedule
Requirements Documentation
Develop Schedule
Workaround plans
Control Scope
25. Process of implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks - and evaluating risk process effectiveness throughout the project.
Project Human Resource Management
Team Development
Product description
Monitor and Control Risks
26. Requests to expand or reduce project scope - modify policies/ processes/plans/procedures/costs and - if approved - can affect budgets or revise schedules. These change requests are processed through the Perform Integrated Change Control process.
Quality Assurance
Prioritized list of quantified risks
Change Requests
Schedule Compression
27. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Quality Policy
Workaround plans
Lead
Control Account
28. Document that formally authorizes a project. Provides project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Project Charter
Formal acceptance and closure
Simulation
Organization Breakdown Structure
29. The work that must be done to deliver a product with the specified features and functions
Plan Quality
Direct costs
Quality Management Plan
Project Scope
30. Formal written notice from a person or organization responsible for contract administration - informing that the contract has been completed.
Formal acceptance and closure
Organizational Policies
Initiation
Stakeholder register
31. A technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic - and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates.
Procurement file
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Proposals
Quality Management Plan
32. Description of the product of the project - provides important information about any technical issues or concerns that would need to be considered during procurement planning
Product description
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Observations
Parametric Estimating
33. A modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity.
Lag
Requirements Documentation
Bottom-up Estimating
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
34. A provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and/or schedule risk. Often used with a modifier to provide further details on what types of risk are meant to be mitigated.
Procurement negotiations
Report Performance
Contingency - Buffer - Reserve
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
35. An authorized time-phased budget at completion (BAC) used to measure - monitor - and control overall cost performance on the project. Developed as a summation of the approved budgets by time period and is typically displayed in the form of an S-curve
Lessons Learned
Human Resource Practices
Schedule Compression
Quality Assurance
36. This involves calculating the theoretical early and late start and finish dates for all project activities without regard to any resource pool restrictions.
Buyer-Seller relationship
Re-baselining
Mathematical Analysis
Define Activities
37. Charts that are used to show positions and relationships in a graphical format.
Project Scope
Work Results
Flowcharts
Organization Chart
38. The process of determining project stakeholders' information needs and defining a communication approach.
Quality Improvement
Interviews
Product description
Plan Communications
39. The expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work break down structure component - or the project.
Rework
Information Distribution Methods
Performance Reviews
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
40. Defines the procedures by which project scope can be changed; includes paperwork - tracking systems and approval levels necessary for authorizing changes.
Fast Tracking
Initiation
Project Management
Scope Change Control System
41. It can include correspondence - memos - meeting minutes - and documents describing the project.
Project Records
Checklists
Activity List
Quality
42. Process of redefining the cost performance/schedule/performance measurement/technical baseline. If cost variances are severe - re-baselining is needed to provide a realistic measure of performance.
Activity List
Re-baselining
Facilitated Workshops
Project Files
43. Repository that provides for collection - maintenance - and analysis of data gathered and used in the risk management process. Use of this database assists risk management throughout the organization and - over time - forms the basis of a risk lesson
Project Schedule
Project Procurement Management
Risk Database
Staffing Requirements
44. The process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements - and forecasts to stakeholders.
Project Scope Management
Report Performance
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
Estimate Activity Durations
45. It is a tool and technique which is used to determine the information needs of the project stakeholders. This is a key component for planning the project's actual communications. It would assist in determining and limiting who will communicate with w
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Communication Requirements Analysis
Plan Risk Responses
Procurement Documents
46. A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result
Project
Facilitated Workshops
Tolerances vs. Control limits
Analogous Estimating (top-down)
47. Process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline
Observations
Project Portfolio Management
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Control Schedule
48. An applicable restriction that will affect the performance of the project/process.
Constraints
Procurement negotiations
Functional Organization
Team Building Activities
49. A structured review of the seller's progress to deliver project scope and quality - within cost and on schedule - as compared to the contract.
Scope Statement
Process Adjustments
Procurement performance reviews
Plan Risk Responses
50. Process of documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach - and identifying potential sellers.
Proposals
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Initiation
Plan Procurements