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1. 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.
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Product Scope
Requirements Documentation
2. Methods used to distribute information to team members and other stakeholders.
Information Distribution Methods
Project Files
Project Plan
Analogous Estimating (top-down)
3. A management control point where the resource plans - scope - schedule and actual cost are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Project Portfolio Management
Project Life Cycle
Control Account
Group Creativity Techniques
4. Complete set of indexed contract documentation - including the closed contract - that is prepared for inclusion with the final project files
Procurement file
Matrix Organization
Simulation
Develop Human Resource Plan
5. Process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables
Initiation
Data precision
Verify Scope
Quality Assurance
6. Activities should have a coding structure to allow sorting and/or extractions based on different attributes assigned to the activities.
Project Records
Coding Structure
Communication Requirements Analysis
Perform Quality Control
7. 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
Control Scope
Procurement performance reviews
Fast Tracking
Prevention vs. Inspections
8. A -specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives.
Procurement audits
Verify Scope
Schedule Baseline
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
9. Dependencies that are contractually required or those inherent in the nature of the work. Often involve physical limitations.
Change Control System
Control Account
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Requirements Documentation
10. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.
Procurement resources
Risk Database
Simulation
Staffing Pool Description
11. 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.
Cost Management Plan
Direct costs
Resource Pool Descriptions
Statistical Sampling
12. 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
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Fixed- price contracts
Risk
13. It can include correspondence - memos - meeting minutes - and documents describing the project.
Project Records
Collect Requirements
Critical Path Method
Project Quality Management
14. Describes the processes concerned with identifying - analyzing - and responding to project risk. It includes planning risk management - identifying risks - performing qualitative risk analysis - performing quantitative risk analysis - planning risk r
Coding Structure
Proposals
Project Risk Management
Re-baselining
15. This involves calculating the theoretical early and late start and finish dates for all project activities without regard to any resource pool restrictions.
Brainstorming
Performance Reviews
Workaround plans
Mathematical Analysis
16. A deliverable is a unique - tangible and verifiable work/product. Each project phase is marked by the completion of one or more deliverables.
Earned Value Analysis
Deliverable
Analogous Estimating (top-down)
Requirements Documentation
17. Clarify the structure - requirements and other terms of the purchases so that mutual agreement can be reached prior to signing the contract.
Procurement negotiations
Decomposition
Contract
Regulation
18. Process to monitor the status of the project to update the project budget and manage changes to the cost baseline.
Simulation
Project Risk Management
Identify Risks
Control Costs
19. Describes how risk management will be structured and performed on the project.
Project Risk Management
Risk Management Plan
Collocation
Scope Changes
20. A group of documented procedure used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to: a) Identify and document the system's functional and physical characteristics; b)Control any changes to such characteristics; c) Record and repo
Documentation Reviews
Configuration Management System
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
Define Activities
21. Project team accepts the risk - i.e. team decides not to change the project plan to deal with the risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy.
Control Scope
Documentation Reviews
Acceptance
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
22. A calendar of working days and non- working days that determines those dates on which each specific resource is ideal or can be active; typically defines the resource specific holidays and resource availability periods; the calendars that specify whe
Resource Calendar
Product Analysis
Flowcharts
Project Scope
23. In a projectized organization - most of the organization's resources are involved in project work - and Project Managers have a great deal of independence and authority.
Parametric Estimating
System or Process
Projectized Organization
Perform Quality Control
24. 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
Communication Requirements Analysis
Project Files
Project Plan
Similarities between Operations and Projects
25. Organize and summarize the information gathered - and present the results of any analysis as compared to the performance measurement baseline. Reports should provide status and progress of the project at the required level of detail.
Requirements Documentation
Functional Organization
Performance Reports
Lead
26. Approved modifications to the project schedule that are used to manage the project
Communications Technology
Schedule updates
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Risk Consequences
27. Defines the procedures by which project scope can be changed; includes paperwork - tracking systems and approval levels necessary for authorizing changes.
Prevention vs. Inspections
Estimate Costs
Resource Leveling
Scope Change Control System
28. Application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Project Closeout
Resource Calendar
Constraints
Project Management
29. Factors which - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real or certain.
Assumptions
Residual Risks
Control Account
Project Cost Management
30. A formal procedure for authorizing project work to ensure that work is done by the identified organization at the right time and in proper sequence.
Assumptions
Documentation Reviews
Work Authorization System
Acquire Project Team
31. Describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project.
System or Process
Requirements Documentation
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Fast Tracking
32. 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
Re-baselining
Project Human Resource Management
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Conduct Procurements
33. 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
Revised Cost Estimates
Precedence Relationships
Initiation
Buyer-Seller relationship
34. Process of documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach - and identifying potential sellers.
Project Life Cycle
Scope Statement
Plan Procurements
Work Results
35. 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 -
Quality Improvement
Quantitatively based durations
Sequence Activities
System or Process
36. 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
Project Cost Management
Stakeholder Analysis
Qualified seller lists
Define Activities
37. A mathematical technique to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. This is performed using run charts.
Constraints
Risk Audits
Organization Breakdown Structure
Trend Analysis
38. 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.
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
Project Selection Methods
Procurement audits
Organization Chart
39. Involves setting a fixed total price for a defined product or service to be provided.
Scope Statement
Checklists
Sequence Activities
Fixed- price contracts
40. 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
Control Account
Project Team Directory
Assumptions
Risk Categories
41. Uses a project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into their potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Project simulation uses computer models and estimates of risk and are
Lag
Project Records
Control Account
Simulation
42. The conclusion of a project phase is marked by a review of both key deliverables and project performance till date to determine if the project should continue into its next phase and detect and correct errors cost-effectively. These phase end reviews
Projectized Organization
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
Verify Scope
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
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
Performance Reviews
Differences between Operations and Project
Risk Database
Constraints
44. Records of previous project results that can be used to identify risks.
Source Selection Criteria
Project Files
Requirements Management Plan
Organization Breakdown Structure
45. Documentation resulting from project activities. These files may also maintain records of other projects that are detailed enough to aid in developing cost estimates.
Code of Accounts
Plan Risk Responses
Rework
Project Files
46. A requirement imposed by a governmental body and its compliance is mandatory.
Assumptions Analysis
Project Integration Management
Regulation
Risk Categories
47. 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.
Inspection
Procurement Documents
Trend Analysis
Project Quality Management
48. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.
Analogous Estimating (top-down)
Observations
Regulation
Checklists
49. A functional organization has a hierarchy in which every employee has one clear superior. Staff members are grouped by areas of specialization. Functional organizations may still have projects - but the perceived scope of the project is defined by th
Control Account
Project Plan
Functional Organization
Information Distribution Methods
50. A modification of a logical relationship that allows an acceleration of the successor activity. A negative lead is equivalent to a positive lag.
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Lead
Project Quality Management
Project Closeout