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Subjects : certifications, capm
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1. A collection of formal (note: not informal) documented procedures - which defines how the documentation and project deliverables will be managed - changed and approved.






2. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project satisfies the needs for which it is undertaken. It includes quality planning - performing quality assurance and control.






3. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.






4. Outcome of activities performed to accomplish the project.






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






6. 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






7. Used to generate - classify - and prioritize product requirements. Some methods used to reach group decisions are: unanimity - majority - plurality - and dictatorship.






8. Meetings that are regularly scheduled to exchange and analyze information about the project and its performance.






9. Project Simulation uses a model that translates the specified detailed uncertainties of the project into their potential impact on project objectives.






10. 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






11. Special category of revised cost estimates to an approved cost baseline.






12. Broader view of Project Cost Management - whereby other than project costs - we consider the effect of project decisions on the cost of using the project's product.






13. 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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






18. Process of assessing and combining the impact and the likelihood of identified risks. Prioritizes risks according to their potential effect on project objectives for further analysis or action.






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






20. Provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing common understanding of the project scope among the stakeholders






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






22. Includes identified risks - risk owners - results of Perform qualitative risk analysis process - agreed upon response strategies - etc.






23. Process of developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives. Includes the identification and assignment of individuals to take responsibility for each agreed-to and funded risk response.






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






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. 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.






27. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.






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






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






30. Formal written notice from a person or organization responsible for contract administration - informing that the contract has been completed.






31. 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.






32. 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






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






34. 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.






35. 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






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






37. Charts that are used to show positions and relationships in a graphical format.






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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






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






45. 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






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






47. Process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline






48. An applicable restriction that will affect the performance of the project/process.






49. A structured review of the seller's progress to deliver project scope and quality - within cost and on schedule - as compared to the contract.






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