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1. Used to generate - classify - and prioritize product requirements. Some methods used to reach group decisions are: unanimity - majority - plurality - and dictatorship.
Group Decision Making Techniques
Resource Pool Descriptions
Acceptance
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
2. Allow for non-sequential activities (e.g. Loops or Conditional Branches); e.g. - GERT(Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique) and System Dynamics
Conditional Diagramming Methods
Project Procurement Management
Develop Schedule
Project Assumption Testing
3. Clarify the structure - requirements and other terms of the purchases so that mutual agreement can be reached prior to signing the contract.
Requirements Management Plan
Procurement negotiations
Avoidance
Benchmarking
4. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Code of Accounts
Deliverable
Risk Database
Bidder Conferences
5. 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.
Code of Accounts
Triggers
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Documentation Reviews
6. 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
Resource Pool Descriptions
Observations
Risk Categories
Initiation
7. The process to develop an approximation (estimate) of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities.
Program
Estimate Costs
Facilitated Workshops
Information Distribution Methods
8. Seller prepared documents that describe the seller's ability and willingness to provide the requested product.
Plan Risk Responses
Proposals
Project Cost Management
Requirements Management Plan
9. 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.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Risk Audits
Plan Risk Responses
Schedule Baseline
10. A modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity.
Recruitment Practices
Communications Technology
Deliverable
Lag
11. Process to monitor the status of the project to update the project budget and manage changes to the cost baseline.
Status Review Meetings
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Control Costs
Quality Metrics
12. Defines the procedures by which project scope can be changed; includes paperwork - tracking systems and approval levels necessary for authorizing changes.
Scope Change Control System
Checklists
Project Scope
Project Charter
13. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on the project objective.
Risk
Project Cost Management
Project Team Directory
Close procurements
14. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.
Staffing Pool Description
Quality
Project Time Management
Proposals
15. Factors that - for planning purposes - will be considered true - real or certain.
Project Cost Management
Identify Stakeholders
Collocation
Assumptions
16. A structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project's scope of work is assigned to a person or team. It illustrates the connections between work pac
Technical performance measurement
Procurement Documents
Contingency - Buffer - Reserve
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
17. Includes the processes that help to estimate - budget - and control costs - so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
Control Account
Project Cost Management
Corrective Action
Process Adjustments
18. A management control point where the resource plans - scope - schedule and actual cost are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Facilitated Workshops
Performance Reports
Control Account
Analogous Estimating (top-down)
19. Allows for probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimates
Focus groups
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Configuration Management System
Product description
20. 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.
Documentation Reviews
Scope Management Plan
Acceptance
Control Scope
21. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.
Resource Pool Descriptions
Project Selection Methods
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
Observations
22. A technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic - and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates.
Cost Performance Baseline
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Project Management
23. Describes the procurement item in sufficient detail to allow prospective sellers to determine if they are capable of providing the products - services - or results.
Contract Change Control System
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Scope Statement
Human Resource Practices
24. This involves calculating the theoretical early and late start and finish dates for all project activities without regard to any resource pool restrictions.
Simulation
Mathematical Analysis
Total Float
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
25. Group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain control and benefits that are not available if managed individually.
Program
Critical Path Method
Stakeholder Analysis
Quality Assurance
26. This compares technical accomplishments during project execution with the project management plan's schedule of technical achievement.
Project Cost Management
Inspection
Technical performance measurement
Quality Metrics
27. Collection of generally sequential project phases.
Project Life Cycle
Qualified seller lists
Life Cycle Costing
Activity List
28. Formal written notice from a person or organization responsible for contract administration - informing that the contract has been completed.
Formal acceptance and closure
Project Procurement Management
Technical performance measurement
Control Costs
29. The expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work break down structure component - or the project.
Communications management plan
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Inspection
Project Risk Management
30. A deliverable is a unique - tangible and verifiable work/product. Each project phase is marked by the completion of one or more deliverables.
Flowcharts
Project Assumption Testing
Deliverable
Cost-reimbursable contracts
31. 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
Precedence Relationships
Simulation
Work Results
Contract Change Control System
32. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.
Develop Human Resource Plan
Statistical Sampling
Prioritized list of quantified risks
Tolerances vs. Control limits
33. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints.
Scope Changes
Communication Requirements Analysis
Resource Leveling
Data Precision Ranking
34. Technologies or methods to transfer information among project stakeholders.
Communications Technology
Requirements Management Plan
Buyer-Seller relationship
Control Costs
35. A documented list of project team members - their project roles - and communication information.
Lead
Administer procurements
Conduct Procurements
Project Team Directory
36. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project
Perform Quality Control
Product Description
Develop Human Resource Plan
Estimate Costs
37. 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
Project Communications Management
Control Charts
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
Information Distribution Methods
38. 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
Observations
Communication Requirements Analysis
Plan Communications
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
39. 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
Group Decision Making Techniques
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
Procurement resources
Procurement Management Plan
40. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.
Determine Budget
Project Management
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
Prioritized list of quantified risks
41. 1. Performed by people; 2. Constrained by limited resources; 3. Planned - excuted - monitored - and controlled; 4. Ultimate goal is to achieve organizational objectives or stratregic plans
Prototypes
Similarities between Operations and Projects
Cost Performance Baseline
Mathematical Analysis
42. Process of implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks - and evaluating risk process effectiveness throughout the project.
Project Human Resource Management
Organizational Policies
Project Procurement Management
Monitor and Control Risks
43. The total amount of time that a schedule activity may be delayed from its early start without delaying the project finish date - or violating a schedule constraint. Calculated using the critical path method technique and determining the difference be
Subproject
Training
Total Float
Rework
44. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component - or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed.
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Requirements Management Plan
Contract
Project Scope
45. Technique to evaluate the degree to which data about risks is useful for risk management.
Direct costs
Corrective Action
Data Precision Ranking
Quality Metrics
46. Process of estimating the type and quantities of resources like materials - people - equipment - or supplies required to perform each project activity
Estimate Activity Resources
Risk Categories
Quality Assurance
Proposal
47. 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
Project Quality Management
Data precision
Acquire Project Team
External Dependencies
48. Describes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - dissemination and ultimate disposition of project information. It includes identifying stakeholders - planning communication - distributing information - mana
Focus groups
Project Communications Management
Administer procurements
Resource Pool Descriptions
49. Defines what kinds of competencies are required from what kind of individuals or groups and in what time frames.
Procurement resources
Constraints
Budget Updates
Staffing Requirements
50. Special category of revised cost estimates to an approved cost baseline.
Probability and impact matrix
Prevention vs. Inspections
Verify Scope
Project Scope