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1. Technologies or methods to transfer information among project stakeholders.
Corrective Action
Buyer-Seller relationship
Quality Metrics
Communications Technology
2. Process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project.
Project Portfolio Management
Perform Quality Control
Inspection
Plan Risk Management
3. The process of identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success.
Collect Requirements
Re-baselining
Risk Consequences
Identify Stakeholders
4. Activities should have a coding structure to allow sorting and/or extractions based on different attributes assigned to the activities.
Group Creativity Techniques
Coding Structure
Templates
Proposals
5. 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
Team Building Activities
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Stakeholder Analysis
Rework
6. Group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain control and benefits that are not available if managed individually.
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Checklists
Control Charts
Program
7. Describes the need - justification - requirements - and current boundaries for the project.
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
Scope baseline
Technical performance measurement
Lead
8. The process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements - and forecasts to stakeholders.
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Report Performance
Stakeholder Analysis
Quality Metrics
9. Special category of revised cost estimates to an approved cost baseline.
Plan Procurements
Plan Communications
Prevention vs. Inspections
Organization Breakdown Structure
10. Factors that - for planning purposes - will be considered true - real or certain.
Quality Management Plan
Prevention vs. Inspections
Assumptions
Plan Risk Management
11. Forecasts of potential project schedule and cost results listing the possible completion dates or project duration and costs with their associated confidence levels.
Prevention vs. Inspections
Constraints
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
Project Files
12. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed.
Activity List
Risk Categories
Training
Project Plan
13. Persons or organizations who are actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by the performance or completion of the project. They may also exert influence over the project - its deliverables - and the
Mathematical Analysis
Brainstorming
Flowcharts
Project Stakeholders
14. 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
Scope Management Plan
Scope Changes
Develop Human Resource Plan
Identify Stakeholders
15. 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
Team Development
Assumptions
Matrix Organization
External Dependencies
16. 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
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
Project Integration Management
Prevention vs. Inspections
Cost-reimbursable contracts
17. 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
Scope Statement
Project Assumption Testing
Cost Performance Baseline
Earned Value Analysis
18. Involves immediate corrective or preventive action as a consequence of quality control measurements.
Process Adjustments
Communication Requirements Analysis
Cost-reimbursable contracts
Monitor and Control Risks
19. 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.
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Cost Management Plan
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
Activity List
20. Includes the processes required to purchase or acquire products - services - or results needed from outside the project team.
Project Procurement Management
Project Schedule
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Transference
21. Project team must measure itself periodically against the expectations of those outside the project.
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
Stakeholder Analysis
Code of Accounts
External Feedback
22. 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.
Manage Stakeholder
Quality Management Plan
Recruitment Practices
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
23. Process of documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach - and identifying potential sellers.
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
Corrective Action
Plan Procurements
Observations
24. Formal written notice from a person or organization responsible for contract administration - informing that the contract has been completed.
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Formal acceptance and closure
Risk Consequences
Change Control System
25. This compares technical accomplishments during project execution with the project management plan's schedule of technical achievement.
Technical performance measurement
Project Communications Management
Deliverable
Project
26. An analytical technique used to determine the basic underlying reason that causes a variance or a defect or a risk. Root cause may underlie more than one variance or defect or risk. Root cause analysis is done as part of corrective action - Helps ide
Fast Tracking
Root Cause Analysis
Control Costs
Sequence Activities
27. Describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project.
Triggers
Requirements Documentation
Constraints
Product Scope
28. This is done to take care of risks that were not identified in the risk response plan - or their impact on objectives is greater than expected.
Project Stakeholders
Data Precision Ranking
External Feedback
Additional Risk Response Planning
29. 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.
Subproject
Plan Risk Responses
Manage Stakeholder
Rework
30. 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.
Mitigation
Performance Reviews
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Quality Management Plan
31. 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 Compression
Communications Technology
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
32. The expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work break down structure component - or the project.
Training
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
Work Results
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
33. Costs allocated to the project by the performing organization as a cost of doing business (e.g. - salaries of corporate executives). Usually calculated as a percentage of direct costs.
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
Product description
Administer procurements
Organization Breakdown Structure
34. Incurred for the exclusive benefit of the project (e.g. - salaries of full-time project staff).
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
Control Account
Define Scope
Direct costs
35. Structured method to guide the project team during development of project plan. Standard forms and templates or even complicated simulations may be used.
Budget Updates
Process Adjustments
Project Planning Methodology
Revised Cost Estimates
36. Records of previous project results that can be used to identify risks.
Bid / quotation
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
Project Files
Rework
37. Dependencies that are contractually required or those inherent in the nature of the work. Often involve physical limitations.
Project Planning Methodology
Source Selection Criteria
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Project Files
38. The process of approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources
Estimate Activity Durations
Performance Reviews
Risk Consequences
Make-or-buy analysis
39. Describes the processes required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project. It includes developing the human resource plan - acquiring the project team - developing the project team - and managing the project team.
Project Life Cycle
Project Communications Management
Revised Cost Estimates
Project Human Resource Management
40. Risks that arise as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Risk Database
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Change Requests
Secondary Risks
41. A mathematical technique to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. This is performed using run charts.
Trend Analysis
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Project Communications Management
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
42. 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.
Regulation
Lag
Schedule Baseline
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
43. 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 Human Resource Management
Templates
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
External Dependencies
44. 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
Project Communications Management
Brainstorming
Assumptions
Procurement file
45. Probability that a risk will occur.
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Risk probability
Corrective Action
Coding Structure
46. 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.
Recruitment Practices
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Deliverable
Plan Risk Responses
47. Includes the processes that organize - manage - and lead the project team.
Project Human Resource Management
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Coding Structure
48. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.
Change Control System
Staffing Pool Description
Project Files
Resource Leveling
49. Uses a project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into their potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Project simulation uses computer models and estimates of risk and are
Change Requests
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Secondary Risks
Simulation
50. 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.
Procurement Management Plan
Subproject
Data precision
Templates