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1. Focused sessions that bring key cross-functional stakeholders together to define product requirements
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Prevention vs. Inspections
Facilitated Workshops
Project Scope
2. Structured review of the project plans and assumptions - prior project files - contracts - and other information.
Quantitatively based durations
Estimate Activity Resources
Documentation Reviews
Sub Network / Fragment Network
3. Meetings held to assess project status and/or progress.
Risk management policies
Project Charter
Performance Reviews
Rework
4. The process to identify and document project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - report relationships - and create a staffing management plan.
Configuration Management System
Project Life Cycle
Develop Human Resource Plan
Proposal
5. Describes the processes required to ensure timely completion of the project. It includes defining activities - sequencing activities - estimating activity resources - estimating activity durations - developing the schedule - and controlling the sched
Direct costs
Project Time Management
Team Building Activities
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
6. Costs allocated to the project by the performing organization as a cost of doing business (e.g. - salaries of corporate executives). Usually calculated as a percentage of direct costs.
Report Performance
Interviews
Quality Metrics
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
7. Involves immediate corrective or preventive action as a consequence of quality control measurements.
Quality Improvement
Project Schedule
Project Procurement Management
Process Adjustments
8. Hybrid type of contractual agreements that contain aspects of both cost-reimbursable and fixed- price contracts. Some characteristics: · Open-ended - i.e. - full value of the agreement and the exact quantity of items to be delivered may not be define
Sequence Activities
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Close procurements
Work Results
9. Includes the processes that organize - manage - and lead the project team.
Transference
Organizational Policies
Project Human Resource Management
Perform Quality Control
10. A process of systematically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interests should be taken into account throughout the project. It identifies the interests - expectations - and influence of the stakehold
Stakeholder Analysis
Qualified seller lists
Re-baselining
Plan Procurements
11. Systematic process of planning - identifying - analyzing - responding - and monitoring and controlling project risk. It increases the probability and impact of positive events - and decrease the probability and impact of negative events in the projec
Corrective Action
Project Risk Management
Distribute Information
Control Costs
12. Lists or files maintained with information on prospective sellers. These lists will generally have information on relevant past experience and other characteristics of the prospective sellers
Qualified seller lists
Identify Stakeholders
Quantitatively based durations
Risk Database
13. Testing identified assumptions against two criteria: assumption stability and consequences on the project if the assumption is false.
Project Files
Contingency - Buffer - Reserve
Project Assumption Testing
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
14. 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
Total Float
Schedule updates
Schedule Compression
Risk Categories
15. They involve measuring value or attractiveness to the project owner. Includes considering the decision criteria and a means to calculate value under uncertainty.
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
Grade
Project Selection Methods
Proposal
16. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships - and productivity.
Collocation
Flowcharts
Organizational Policies
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
17. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.
Work Results
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Quality Metrics
Performance Reviews
18. An analytical technique used to determine the basic underlying reason that causes a variance or a defect or a risk. Root cause may underlie more than one variance or defect or risk. Root cause analysis is done as part of corrective action - Helps ide
Root Cause Analysis
Constraints
Coding Structure
Acceptance
19. A hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units.
Estimate Activity Resources
Control Costs
Organization Breakdown Structure
Project Time Management
20. Describes how the procurement processes (from developing procurement documentation through contract closure) will be managed
Communications management plan
Procurement Management Plan
Observations
Risk Consequences
21. Outcome of activities performed to accomplish the project.
Forecasting
Work Results
Constraints
Resource Pool Descriptions
22. Charts/ Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed. Such expertise may be provided by any group or person with specialized education -
System or Process
Make-or-buy analysis
Project Scope
Project Risk Management
23. Complete set of indexed contract documentation - including the closed contract - that is prepared for inclusion with the final project files
Plan Risk Management
Quantitatively based durations
Control Schedule
Procurement file
24. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives.
Resource Leveling
Define Scope
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Identify Stakeholders
25. Factors that will limit the project management team's options (e.g. - a predefined budget)
Constraints
Additional Risk Response Planning
Bid / quotation
Organization Breakdown Structure
26. 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
Prioritized list of quantified risks
Project Schedule
Rework
Administer procurements
27. The process of determining project stakeholders' information needs and defining a communication approach.
Plan Communications
Human Resource Practices
Lessons Learned
Earned Value Analysis
28. Expectations The process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur. Project manager applies appropriate interpersonal skills to manage stakeholder expectations - for example - by building t
Estimate Activity Durations
Mathematical Analysis
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Manage Stakeholder
29. The work that must be done to deliver a product with the specified features and functions
Resource Pool Descriptions
Requirements Management Plan
Project Scope
Project Human Resource Management
30. Process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - ad making changes and corrections as needed.
Administer procurements
Control Schedule
Control Costs
Information Distribution Methods
31. Methods used to distribute information to team members and other stakeholders.
Benchmarking
Mitigation
Constraints
Information Distribution Methods
32. It shortens the project schedule without changing the project scope - in order to meet schedule constraints - imposed dates - or other schedule objectives. -. This technique includes crashing and fast tracking.
Schedule Compression
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Configuration Management System
Plan Quality
33. Process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller - and awarding a contract
Technical performance measurement
Bidder Conferences
Conduct Procurements
Residual Risks
34. Group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain control and benefits that are not available if managed individually.
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
Program
Bottom-up Estimating
Verify Scope
35. Risks that remain after planned responses have been implemented - as well as those that have been deliberately accepted.
Cost Management Plan
Identify Risks
Resource Leveling
Residual Risks
36. Documents the characteristics of the product - result - or service which the project is undertaken to create.
Product Description
Project Scope
Parametric Estimating
Requirements Management Plan
37. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget. It includes estimating the cost - determining the budget - and controlling the costs.
Distribute Information
Procurement Management Plan
Project Cost Management
Schedule Baseline
38. Factors which - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real or certain.
Organizational Policies
Interviews
Project Procurement Management
Assumptions
39. Allows for probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimates
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Forecasting
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Differences between Operations and Project
40. Calculates the theoretical early start and finish dates - and late start and finish dates - for all activities without regard to any resource limitations. This is done by performing a forward and backward pass analysis through the schedule network.
Estimate Activity Resources
Critical Path Method
Procurement file
Differences between Operations and Project
41. Includes all those activities designed to enhance the competencies of the project team members. Training can be formal or informal.
Training
Plan Procurements
Plan Communications
Assumptions Analysis
42. Describes the processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated. It includes developing the project plan - managing the execution of the project plan - monitoring & controlling work - integrating the chang
Project Integration Management
Simulation
Project Quality Management
Program
43. Process of developing a detailed description of the project and product
Independent estimates
Project Procurement Management
Define Scope
Expert Judgment
44. 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
Checklists
Proposals
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Project Portfolio Management
45. Process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project.
Plan Risk Management
Facilitated Workshops
Qualified seller lists
Earned Value Analysis
46. A schedule compression technique in which phases or activities normally performed in sequence are performed in parallel. Fast tracking often results in rework and increased risk. Fast tracking only works if activities can be overlapped to shorten the
Fast Tracking
Program
Control Account
Control Schedule
47. 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.
Quality
Bidder Conferences
Identify Stakeholders
Project Records
48. Formal and informal policies that are required for project plan development. Organizational policies include quality management - personnel administration and financial controls.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Distribute Information
Perform Quality Control
Organizational Policies
49. A documented list of project team members - their project roles - and communication information.
Quality Assurance
Report Performance
Stakeholder Analysis
Project Team Directory
50. 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
Benchmarking
Coding Structure
Control Charts
Project Cost Management