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Subjects : certifications, capm
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1. Meetings that are regularly scheduled to exchange and analyze information about the project and its performance.






2. Formal and informal policies that are required for project plan development. Organizational policies include quality management - personnel administration and financial controls.






3. Process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities. Sequencing can be performed by using project management software or by using manual or automated techniques.






4. Testing identified assumptions against two criteria: assumption stability and consequences on the project if the assumption is false.






5. The process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements - and forecasts to stakeholders.






6. 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.






7. Generally used when considerations like technical approach and technical skills are paramount in source selection






8. This involves calculating the theoretical early and late start and finish dates for all project activities without regard to any resource pool restrictions.






9. 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






10. Schematic displays of the logical relationships (dependencies) among the project schedule activities; always drawn from left to right to reflect project work chronology






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






12. Activities that assist in developing/enhancing the ability of team members to work together effectively and contribute to the success of the project team. It improves the people skills - technical competencies - and overall team environment and proje






13. 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






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






15. Complete set of indexed contract documentation - including the closed contract - that is prepared for inclusion with the final project files






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






17. The state - quality - or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. An applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






18. Descriptions of which resources will be available at what times and in what patterns necessary for schedule development






19. 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






20. Process of defining and documenting stakeholders' needs to meet the project objectives






21. Defines the process by which the procurement can be modified. It includes paperwork - tracking systems - dispute resolution procedures - and approval levels necessary for authorizing changes.






22. 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.






23. 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






24. A hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units.






25. Process of implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks - and evaluating risk process effectiveness throughout the project.






26. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables to calculate an estimate for activity parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration. An example for the cost parameter is multiplying






27. A subsequent phase of a project is sometimes begun prior to approval of the previous phase deliverables when the risks involved are deemed acceptable. This practice of overlapping phases is often called fast tracking






28. Describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project.






29. Project team must measure itself periodically against the expectations of those outside the project.






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






31. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.






32. Documents the characteristics of the product - result - or service which the project is undertaken to create.






33. Describes how project scope will be managed and how scope changes will be integrated into the project. It should also include an assessment of the expected stability of the project scope






34. 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






35. Involves developing a better understanding of the product of the project






36. For many procurement items - the procuring organization may elect to either prepare its own independent estimate - or have an estimate of costs prepared by an outside professional estimator - to serve as a benchmark on proposed responses.






37. Process of changing the schedule baseline. It is done when schedule delays are very severe - and the project schedule has to be completely changed.






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






39. It can include correspondence - memos - meeting minutes - and documents describing the project.






40. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives.






41. 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.






42. Defines the procedures by which project scope can be changed; includes paperwork - tracking systems and approval levels necessary for authorizing changes.






43. Document that formally authorizes a project. Provides project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.






44. 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






45. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project






46. The work that must be done to deliver a product with the specified features and functions






47. 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.






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






49. 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






50. The expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work break down structure component - or the project.