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1. 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
Decision Tree
Work Results
Qualified seller lists
Project Human Resource Management
2. Processes and procedures developed for the closing or canceling of projects.
Independent estimates
Cost Performance Baseline
Inspection
Tolerances vs. Control limits
3. Document that formally authorizes a project. Provides project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Define Scope
Project Charter
Benchmarking
4. The process to develop an approximation (estimate) of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities.
Assumptions Analysis
Direct costs
Grade
Staffing Requirements
5. Quantities to be performed for each specific category - and can be used to estimate activity durations
Product Analysis
Product description
Quantitatively based durations
Total Float
6. Diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives.
Decision Tree
Project Stakeholders
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
Procurement Documents
7. It consists of tools and techniques used to gather - integrate and disseminate the outputs of project management processes. Supports all aspects of the project from initiating through closing - and can include both manual and automated systems.
Simulation
Stakeholder register
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Crashing
8. 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
Data Precision Ranking
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Project Integration Management
Communications management plan
9. Provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing common understanding of the project scope among the stakeholders
Fast Tracking
Product Scope
Scope Statement
Constraints
10. 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
Program
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Re-baselining
Cost Management Plan
11. Also called risk symptoms or warning signs - they are indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. They may be discovered in the risk identification process and watched in the risk monitoring and control process.
Fast Tracking
Triggers
Re-baselining
Project Procurement Management
12. The document that describes the communication needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; and who is responsible for providing each type of communica
Project Closeout
Communications management plan
Procurement resources
Project Files
13. Meetings held to assess project status and/or progress.
Scope baseline
Project Procurement Management
Performance Reviews
Requirements Documentation
14. Activities specifically taken by management and team members to help individual team members work together effectively - thereby improving team performance
Project Quality Management
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Stakeholder register
Team Building Activities
15. An accepted action performed to bring projected future project performance in line with the project plan. These actions have to be documented.
Project Stakeholders
Assumptions
Corrective Action
Performance Reports
16. Factors that - for planning purposes - will be considered true - real or certain.
Work Results
Control Schedule
Define Scope
Assumptions
17. Features or services that characterize a product - result - or service
Status Review Meetings
Product Scope
Buyer-Seller relationship
Project Risk Management
18. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed.
Human Resource Practices
Risk Database
Data Precision Ranking
Activity List
19. Includes all those activities designed to enhance the competencies of the project team members. Training can be formal or informal.
Training
Data Precision Ranking
Mathematical Analysis
Simulation
20. Allow for non-sequential activities (e.g. Loops or Conditional Branches); e.g. - GERT(Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique) and System Dynamics
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Control Account
Conditional Diagramming Methods
Functional Organization
21. Process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project.
Change Control System
Plan Risk Management
Project Planning Methodology
Sub Network / Fragment Network
22. A schedule network analysis technique used to determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on various logical network paths in the project schedule network - and to determine the minimum total project duration. Early start and finish dates are calc
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Schedule Baseline
Matrix Organization
Prevention vs. Inspections
23. Includes identified risks - risk owners - results of Perform qualitative risk analysis process - agreed upon response strategies - etc.
Risk Register
Documentation Reviews
Grade
Sensitivity Analysis
24. A subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - used to illustrate or study some potential or proposed schedule condition - such as changes in preferential schedule logic or project scope.
Probability and impact matrix
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Corrective Action
Sub Network / Fragment Network
25. Policies - guidelines and procedures that can help the project management team with various aspects of organizational planning.
Constraints
Acquire Project Team
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Human Resource Practices
26. Specify lessons that can be learned from each and every project - even from projects which are failures. They need to be documented. Most companies prefer post-implementation meetings and case studies to document Lessons Learned
Checklists
Project Plan
Project Communications Management
Lessons Learned
27. Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM) includes four types of dependencies or relationships between activities: 1. Finish to Start; 2. Finish to Finish; 3. Start to Finish; 4. Start to Start
Quality Management Plan
Risk Consequences
Precedence Relationships
Assumptions
28. 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
Direct costs
Quality Improvement
Project Communications Management
29. 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
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Acquire Project Team
Cost Performance Baseline
30. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Prioritized list of quantified risks
Schedule updates
Earned Value Analysis
Quality Policy
31. The document that sets out the format and establishes the activities and criteria for planning - structuring - and controlling the project costs. The cost management plan is contained in - or is a subsidiary plan of - the project management plan.
Additional Risk Response Planning
Quality Management Plan
Project Assumption Testing
Project Procurement Management
32. Bring together prequalified stakeholders and subject matter experts to learn about their expectations and attitudes about a proposed product - service - or result
Product description
Focus groups
Trend Analysis
Lessons Learned
33. A partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing - and presenting information and data.
Templates
Formal acceptance and closure
Risk Database
Control Scope
34. Outcome of activities performed to accomplish the project.
Work Results
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
Checklists
35. Changing the project management plan to eliminate the threat entirely.
Work Authorization System
Avoidance
Quantitatively based durations
Transference
36. Documentation resulting from project activities. These files may also maintain records of other projects that are detailed enough to aid in developing cost estimates.
Secondary Risks
Focus groups
Project Files
Sequence Activities
37. Process of developing a detailed description of the project and product
Project Schedule
Quality
Define Scope
Report Performance
38. A structured review of the seller's progress to deliver project scope and quality - within cost and on schedule - as compared to the contract.
Resource Leveling
Procurement performance reviews
Performance Reviews
Assumptions Analysis
39. Focused sessions that bring key cross-functional stakeholders together to define product requirements
Critical Path Method
Facilitated Workshops
Brainstorming
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
40. Dependencies determined by the Project Management Team; involve a relationship between project activities and non-project activities (i.e. - dependencies on issues that are beyond the scope of the project). These dependencies are outside the project
External Dependencies
Buyer-Seller relationship
Workaround plans
Quality Metrics
41. It can include correspondence - memos - meeting minutes - and documents describing the project.
Corrective Action
Sequence Activities
Project Files
Project Records
42. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.
Observations
Project Plan
Critical Path Method
Quantitatively based durations
43. 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
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Transference
Project Management
44. The policies - guidelines - or procedures that govern the recruitment of staff.
Report Performance
Stakeholder Analysis
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Recruitment Practices
45. Documents the characteristics of the product - result - or service which the project is undertaken to create.
Product Description
Identify Risks
Report Performance
Checklists
46. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments.
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Contract
Project Communications Management
Acquire Project Team
47. A hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units.
Project Scope
Organization Breakdown Structure
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
48. 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
Requirements Documentation
Similarities between Operations and Projects
Fast Tracking
Assumptions Analysis
49. Describes the processes required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project. It includes developing the human resource plan - acquiring the project team - developing the project team - and managing the project team.
Team Development
Resource Calendar
Work Authorization System
Project Human Resource Management
50. 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
Assumptions Analysis
Plan Quality
Projectized Organization
Cost Performance Baseline