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Subjects : certifications, capm
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1. 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






2. 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.






3. This compares technical accomplishments during project execution with the project management plan's schedule of technical achievement.






4. It includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - dissemination - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information.






5. 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






6. Includes the processes that organize - manage - and lead the project team.






7. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on the project objective.






8. Any modification to the agreed upon project scope as defined by the approved WBS






9. Outcome of activities performed to accomplish the project.






10. Terms used when the source selection decision will be based on price






11. Bring together prequalified stakeholders and subject matter experts to learn about their expectations and attitudes about a proposed product - service - or result






12. The process of analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements - and schedule constrains to create the project schedule






13. A modification of a logical relationship that allows an acceleration of the successor activity. A negative lead is equivalent to a positive lag.






14. Processes and procedures developed for the closing or canceling of projects.






15. Process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project.






16. 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.






17. Process of documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach - and identifying potential sellers.






18. If the performing organization does not have a formal contracting group - then the project team will have to supply both the resources and expertise to support procurement activities






19. A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result






20. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project includes only the essential work required to complete the project successfully. It includes collecting the requirements - defining the scope - verifying the scope and controlling the scope o






21. 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.






22. Factors that - for planning purposes - will be considered true - real or certain.






23. 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.






24. Dependencies that are contractually required or those inherent in the nature of the work. Often involve physical limitations.






25. They possess a blend of functional and projectized characteristics. Weak matrices maintain many of the characteristics of a functional organization - and the Project Manager's role is more that of a coordinator or expediter than that of a manager. Si






26. An estimating technique that uses parameters from a previous - similar project as the basis for estimating the same parameter/measure for a future project. Frequently used to estimate project duration when there is a limited amount of detailed inform






27. 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






28. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming item into compliance with requirements or specifications. It is a frequent cause of project overruns in most application areas.






29. 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.






30. Group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain control and benefits that are not available if managed individually.






31. 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.






32. Technique to evaluate the degree to which data about risks is useful for risk management.






33. 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.






34. A modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity.






35. Process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - ad making changes and corrections as needed.






36. A method of estimating a component of work. The work is decomposed into more detail. An estimate is prepared of what is needed to meet the requirements of each of the lower - more detailed pieces of work. These estimates are then aggregated into a to






37. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.






38. 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






39. Clarify the structure - requirements and other terms of the purchases so that mutual agreement can be reached prior to signing the contract.






40. Used to identify project and product requirements; some of the techniques used are: Brainstorming - Nominal group technique - The Delphi technique - Idea/mind mapping - and Affinity diagram.






41. Documents how requirements will be analyzed - documented - and managed throughout the project






42. Allows for probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimates






43. 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






44. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.






45. A management control point where the resource plans - scope - schedule and actual cost are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.






46. Forecasts of potential project schedule and cost results listing the possible completion dates or project duration and costs with their associated confidence levels.






47. 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






48. Seller prepared documents that describe the seller's ability and willingness to provide the requested product.






49. The process of determining project stakeholders' information needs and defining a communication approach.






50. It compares cost performance over time - schedule activities or work packages overrunning and under running the budget - and estimated funds needed to complete work in progress.