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1. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle
Revised Cost Estimates
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Resource Pool Descriptions
2. Provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing common understanding of the project scope among the stakeholders
Prioritized list of quantified risks
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Initiation
Scope Statement
3. Mutually binding legal agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified products - services - or results - and obligates the buyer to compensate the seller.
Team Building Activities
Estimate Activity Resources
Probability and impact matrix
Contract
4. 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.
Project Charter
Close procurements
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
Procurement negotiations
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.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Charter
Close procurements
Triggers
6. Expectations The process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur. Project manager applies appropriate interpersonal skills to manage stakeholder expectations - for example - by building t
Manage Stakeholder
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Rework
Decision Tree
7. Collection of generally sequential project phases.
Prototypes
Project Life Cycle
Data Precision Ranking
Project Portfolio Management
8. Processes and procedures developed for the closing or canceling of projects.
Forecasting
Procurement file
Project Closeout
Project Human Resource Management
9. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measure of scale such as size - weight - and complexity - from a previous - similar activity as the basis for estimating the same parameter o
Benchmarking
Flowcharts
Communications management plan
Tolerances vs. Control limits
10. Process of developing a detailed description of the project and product
Conduct Procurements
Project Stakeholders
Define Scope
Develop Human Resource Plan
11. Schematic displays of the logical relationships (dependencies) among the project schedule activities; always drawn from left to right to reflect project work chronology
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Recruitment Practices
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
12. 1. Operations do not have any timelines. Projects are temporary and have finite time duration. 2. Operation's objective is usually to sustain the business. Project's objective is to achieve the target and close the project.
Risk Register
Risk Audits
Control Scope
Differences between Operations and Project
13. 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
Quality Metrics
Control Scope
Project Scope Management
Simulation
14. 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
Fast Tracking
Project Cost Management
Project Plan Updates
Product Description
15. 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.
Contract Change Control System
Proposal
Technical performance measurement
Project Stakeholders
16. Describes the extent to which a risk is known or understood. Measures extent of data available as well as reliability of data.
Project Human Resource Management
Data precision
Project Planning Methodology
Scope Management Plan
17. They involve measuring value or attractiveness to the project owner. Includes considering the decision criteria and a means to calculate value under uncertainty.
Project Selection Methods
Project Risk Management
Technical performance measurement
Quality Metrics
18. Process of estimating the type and quantities of resources like materials - people - equipment - or supplies required to perform each project activity
Plan Risk Responses
Group Creativity Techniques
Acquire Project Team
Estimate Activity Resources
19. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Project
Benchmarking
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
20. Group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain control and benefits that are not available if managed individually.
Grade
Staffing Pool Description
Program
Develop Human Resource Plan
21. 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 Scope
Product description
Human Resource Practices
Project Scope Management
22. 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
Project Planning Methodology
Quantitatively based durations
Performance Reports
Design of Experiments (DOE)
23. A modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity.
Change Requests
Resource Pool Descriptions
Performance Reports
Lag
24. Records of previous project results that can be used to identify risks.
Cost-reimbursable contracts
Human Resource Practices
Project Files
Requirements Traceability Matrix
25. The expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work break down structure component - or the project.
Project Quality Management
Decomposition
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Work Results
26. 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
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Communications management plan
Triggers
Project Files
27. It can include correspondence - memos - meeting minutes - and documents describing the project.
Inspection
Project Records
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Resource Leveling
28. An applicable restriction that will affect the performance of the project/process.
Parametric Estimating
Constraints
Brainstorming
Buyer-Seller relationship
29. 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
Project Integration Management
Fast Tracking
Perform Quality Control
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
30. Factors that will limit the project management team's options (e.g. - a predefined budget)
Constraints
External Feedback
Control Scope
Cost Performance Baseline
31. The process of determining project stakeholders' information needs and defining a communication approach.
Re-baselining
Assumptions
Plan Communications
Interviews
32. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints.
Assumptions Analysis
Facilitated Workshops
Revised Cost Estimates
Resource Leveling
33. 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
Risk Database
Formal acceptance and closure
Procurement audits
Requirements Documentation
34. Involves developing a better understanding of the product of the project
Control Costs
Resource Leveling
Product Analysis
Lag
35. 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
Scope Change Control System
Organizational Policies
Performance Reviews
Stakeholder Analysis
36. Projects are frequently divided into better manageable components or subprojects. Subprojects are often contracted to an external enterprise or another functional unit in the performing organization.
Identify Stakeholders
Workaround plans
Project Plan
Subproject
37. 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.
Project Communications Management
Project Procurement Management
Develop Schedule
Collocation
38. Documents the characteristics of the product - result - or service which the project is undertaken to create.
Schedule Compression
Code of Accounts
Checklists
Product Description
39. Includes the processes that help to estimate - budget - and control costs - so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
Project Cost Management
Schedule Baseline
Project Records
Scope Statement
40. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas - or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts which data can be addressed later in Perform qualitative and quantitative
Product Description
Bid / quotation
Brainstorming
Code of Accounts
41. Meetings with all prospective sellers and buyers prior to submittal of a bid or proposal. Used to ensure that all prospective sellers have a clear and common understanding of the procurement - and that no bidders receive preferential treatment.
Organization Breakdown Structure
Project Schedule
Bidder Conferences
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
42. The policies - guidelines - or procedures that govern the recruitment of staff.
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
Project Management
Recruitment Practices
Status Review Meetings
43. 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
Analogous Estimating (top-down)
Lead
Project Human Resource Management
Root Cause Analysis
44. A schedule compression technique in which cost and schedule tradeoffs are analyzed to determine how to obtain the greatest amount of compression for the least incremental cost. Crashing only works for activities where additional resources will shorte
Crashing
Risk Categories
Observations
Contingency - Buffer - Reserve
45. Testing identified assumptions against two criteria: assumption stability and consequences on the project if the assumption is false.
Free Float
Project Assumption Testing
Data precision
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
46. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Buyer-Seller relationship
Subproject
Quality Policy
Administer procurements
47. Process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Proposal
Control Scope
Differences between Operations and Project
48. 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
Total Float
Configuration Management System
Prototypes
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
49. Structured method to guide the project team during development of project plan. Standard forms and templates or even complicated simulations may be used.
Project Planning Methodology
Scope Statement
Report Performance
Bidder Conferences
50. Deliverable- oriented grouping of project components that organizes and defines the total scope of the project - work not in the WBS is outside the scope of the project.
Checklists
Quality Management Plan
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Inspection
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