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1. 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.
Project Files
Lag
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Re-baselining
2. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle
Communications Technology
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
3. 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.
Proposal
Forecasting
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
4. 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
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
Precedence Relationships
Lessons Learned
Project Schedule
5. A method of obtaining early feedback on requirements by providing a working model of the expected product before actually building it.
Project Closeout
Prototypes
Technical performance measurement
Communications management plan
6. 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
Change Control System
Subproject
Benchmarking
Communication Requirements Analysis
7. Estimating or predicting future project status and progress based on knowledge and information available at the time of forecasting.
Forecasting
Requirements Management Plan
Project Communications Management
Communications Technology
8. Diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives.
Project Records
Decision Tree
Project Closeout
Recruitment Practices
9. 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.
Project Communications Management
Re-baselining
Work Authorization System
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
10. 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.
Workaround plans
Control Charts
Collocation
Bidder Conferences
11. The work that must be done to deliver a product with the specified features and functions
Life Cycle Costing
Project Integration Management
Project Scope
Requirements Management Plan
12. Involves payments (cost reimbursements) to the seller for all legitimate actual costs incurred for completed work - plus a fee representing seller profit
Stakeholder register
Expert Judgment
Program
Cost-reimbursable contracts
13. 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
Code of Accounts
Communication Requirements Analysis
Performance Reviews
Assumptions
14. 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.
Define Activities
Expert Judgment
Contract Change Control System
Conditional Diagramming Methods
15. Policies - guidelines and procedures that can help the project management team with various aspects of organizational planning.
Administer procurements
Human Resource Practices
Procurement negotiations
Earned Value Analysis
16. The process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements - and forecasts to stakeholders.
Project Plan Updates
Procurement file
Report Performance
Project Management
17. Processes and procedures developed for the closing or canceling of projects.
Risk Management Plan
Report Performance
Proposals
Project Closeout
18. Subdivision of project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components
Decomposition
Scope Management Plan
Fixed- price contracts
Prototypes
19. Forecasts of potential project schedule and cost results listing the possible completion dates or project duration and costs with their associated confidence levels.
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
Quality
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Product Scope
20. Factors that limit a buyer's options. E.g. - funds availability
Constraints
Templates
Project Time Management
Quality Management Plan
21. Allows for probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimates
Templates
Resource Leveling
Plan Risk Responses
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
22. Factors which - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real or certain.
Define Scope
Scope Statement
Assumptions
Staffing Requirements
23. 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
Statistical Sampling
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Contract Change Control System
Project Communications Management
24. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.
Observations
Develop Human Resource Plan
Risk
Risk Database
25. A modification of a logical relationship that allows an acceleration of the successor activity. A negative lead is equivalent to a positive lag.
Human Resource Practices
Scope Changes
Lead
Work Results
26. Describes the processes required to acquire goods and services from outside the project team. It includes planning procurements - conducting procurements - administering procurements - and closing procurements.
Workaround plans
Simulation
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Project Procurement Management
27. Documents how requirements will be analyzed - documented - and managed throughout the project
Requirements Management Plan
Project Portfolio Management
Project Risk Management
Organizational Policies
28. 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
Bottom-up Estimating
Project Cost Management
Quality Improvement
Collocation
29. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.
Statistical Sampling
Quality Metrics
Project Scope
Sensitivity Analysis
30. 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.
Expert Judgment
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Plan Risk Responses
Risk Management Plan
31. 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
Work Results
Mathematical Analysis
Organizational Policies
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
32. Process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - ad making changes and corrections as needed.
Fast Tracking
Administer procurements
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
Forecasting
33. Focused sessions that bring key cross-functional stakeholders together to define product requirements
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Residual Risks
Process Adjustments
Facilitated Workshops
34. Activities should have a coding structure to allow sorting and/or extractions based on different attributes assigned to the activities.
Contract Change Control System
Coding Structure
Proposal
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
35. 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
Source Selection Criteria
Procurement performance reviews
Earned Value Analysis
Team Development
36. 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.
Technical performance measurement
Rework
Organizational Policies
Scope Management Plan
37. Any modification to the agreed upon project scope as defined by the approved WBS
Project Management
Scope Changes
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Project Records
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
Simulation
Lead
Performance Reviews
Checklists
39. 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 - knowledg
Documentation Reviews
Plan Risk Responses
Constraints
Expert Judgment
40. Predefined approaches to risk analysis and response in some organizations that have to be tailored to a particular project.
Risk management policies
Quality Assurance
Control Account
Re-baselining
41. 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.
Corrective Action
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Root Cause Analysis
Subproject
42. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Code of Accounts
Conduct Procurements
External Dependencies
Initiation
43. 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.
Sensitivity Analysis
Project Time Management
Subproject
Group Decision Making Techniques
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
Project Communications Management
Crashing
Organizational Policies
Lessons Learned
45. 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
Contract Change Control System
Make-or-buy analysis
Precedence Relationships
Fixed- price contracts
46. Documents the characteristics of the product - result - or service which the project is undertaken to create.
Communication Requirements Analysis
Inspection
Project Human Resource Management
Product Description
47. 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
Program
Plan Quality
Fast Tracking
Work Results
48. Approved modifications to the project schedule that are used to manage the project
Projectized Organization
Project Team Directory
Develop Human Resource Plan
Schedule updates
49. Quantities to be performed for each specific category - and can be used to estimate activity durations
Quantitatively based durations
Tolerances vs. Control limits
Procurement Documents
Project Communications Management
50. A deliverable is a unique - tangible and verifiable work/product. Each project phase is marked by the completion of one or more deliverables.
Free Float
Total Float
Project Procurement Management
Deliverable