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1. Process to monitor the status of the project to update the project budget and manage changes to the cost baseline.
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Project Scope Management
Project Human Resource Management
Control Costs
2. Allows for probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimates
Additional Risk Response Planning
Distribute Information
Work Results
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
3. 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
Assumptions
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Communications management plan
Project Human Resource Management
4. Factors that - for planning purposes - will be considered true - real or certain.
Qualified seller lists
Assumptions
Scope Changes
Interviews
5. Technique to evaluate the degree to which data about risks is useful for risk management.
Data Precision Ranking
Communications Technology
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Develop Schedule
6. A structured review of the seller's progress to deliver project scope and quality - within cost and on schedule - as compared to the contract.
Sensitivity Analysis
Risk Consequences
Monitor and Control Risks
Procurement performance reviews
7. 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
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Communication Requirements Analysis
Control Charts
Stakeholder Analysis
8. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.
Transference
Similarities between Operations and Projects
Observations
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
9. Process of implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks - and evaluating risk process effectiveness throughout the project.
Monitor and Control Risks
Project Communications Management
Project Stakeholders
Staffing Requirements
10. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project
Recruitment Practices
Perform Quality Control
Product Description
Re-baselining
11. A calendar of working days and non- working days that determines those dates on which each specific resource is ideal or can be active; typically defines the resource specific holidays and resource availability periods; the calendars that specify whe
Project Quality Management
Total Float
Project Procurement Management
Resource Calendar
12. This involves calculating the theoretical early and late start and finish dates for all project activities without regard to any resource pool restrictions.
Cost-reimbursable contracts
Proposal
Training
Mathematical Analysis
13. Process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline
Fixed- price contracts
Control Schedule
Close procurements
Program
14. 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.
Re-baselining
Bid / quotation
Schedule Compression
Expert Judgment
15. The expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work break down structure component - or the project.
Work Results
Project Time Management
Verify Scope
Budget Updates
16. 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
Revised Cost Estimates
Checklists
Project Life Cycle
Total Float
17. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives.
Project Integration Management
Projectized Organization
Project Assumption Testing
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
18. Any modification to the contents of the project plan or the supporting details.
Project Plan Updates
Contract Change Control System
Administer procurements
Bottom-up Estimating
19. Process of developing a detailed description of the project and product
Define Scope
Contract
Organizational Policies
Simulation
20. It is used to identify stakeholders that can provide information on detailed project and product requirements. It contains the following information regarding the identified stakeholders: identification information (name - designation - location - co
Stakeholder register
Organizational Policies
Group Creativity Techniques
Triggers
21. 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
Product Scope
Performance Reviews
Flowcharts
Design of Experiments (DOE)
22. Used to solicit proposals from prospective sellers
Manage Stakeholder
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Procurement Documents
Performance Reviews
23. Risk Audits examine and document the effectiveness of risk responses in dealing with identified risks and their root causes - as well as the effectiveness of the risk management process.
Risk Audits
Resource Pool Descriptions
Procurement file
Secondary Risks
24. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.
Facilitated Workshops
Project Schedule
Organizational Policies
Statistical Sampling
25. Calculates the theoretical early start and finish dates - and late start and finish dates - for all activities without regard to any resource limitations. This is done by performing a forward and backward pass analysis through the schedule network.
Staffing Requirements
Statistical Sampling
Project Records
Critical Path Method
26. 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.
Project Human Resource Management
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
Project Plan Updates
Stakeholder Analysis
27. 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
Work Authorization System
Quality Assurance
Project Communications Management
Deliverable
28. Process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables
Change Requests
Configuration Management System
Estimate Activity Resources
Verify Scope
29. 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
Control Scope
Benchmarking
Manage Stakeholder
Analogous Estimating (top-down)
30. A modification of a logical relationship that allows an acceleration of the successor activity. A negative lead is equivalent to a positive lag.
Lead
Project Scope
Observations
Requirements Traceability Matrix
31. The state - quality - or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. An applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.
Constraints
Similarities between Operations and Projects
Re-baselining
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
32. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Quality Policy
Risk management policies
External Dependencies
System or Process
33. A partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing - and presenting information and data.
Schedule Compression
Group Creativity Techniques
Templates
Performance Reviews
34. 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 Scope
Critical Path Method
Project Scope Management
Collocation
35. 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
Bidder Conferences
Residual Risks
Quantitatively based durations
Project Stakeholders
36. Process of formally authorizing a new project or the next phase of an existing project; links the project to the ongoing work of the performing organization
Quality Assurance
Project Selection Methods
Control Charts
Initiation
37. Includes all those activities designed to enhance the competencies of the project team members. Training can be formal or informal.
Buyer-Seller relationship
Technical performance measurement
Training
Collect Requirements
38. 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.
Project Stakeholders
Differences between Operations and Project
Cost Management Plan
Project Schedule
39. Meetings held to assess project status and/or progress.
Define Activities
Performance Reviews
Procurement negotiations
Earned Value Analysis
40. They involve measuring value or attractiveness to the project owner. Includes considering the decision criteria and a means to calculate value under uncertainty.
Project Cost Management
Project Selection Methods
Scope Statement
Code of Accounts
41. It consists of tools and techniques used to gather - integrate and disseminate the outputs of project management processes. Supports all aspects of the project from initiating through closing - and can include both manual and automated systems.
Project Cost Management
Decision Tree
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Estimate Activity Durations
42. Used to generate - classify - and prioritize product requirements. Some methods used to reach group decisions are: unanimity - majority - plurality - and dictatorship.
Quantitatively based durations
Inspection
Group Decision Making Techniques
Requirements Traceability Matrix
43. Includes identified risks - risk owners - results of Perform qualitative risk analysis process - agreed upon response strategies - etc.
Risk Register
Benchmarking
Organizational Policies
Control Costs
44. Probability that a risk will occur.
Risk probability
Quality Improvement
Control Schedule
Buyer-Seller relationship
45. Mutually binding legal agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified products - services - or results - and obligates the buyer to compensate the seller.
Group Creativity Techniques
Acceptance
Interviews
Contract
46. Special category of revised cost estimates to an approved cost baseline.
Budget Updates
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Project Quality Management
Risk Database
47. Describes the procurement item in sufficient detail to allow prospective sellers to determine if they are capable of providing the products - services - or results.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Proposal
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Root Cause Analysis
48. Lists or files maintained with information on prospective sellers. These lists will generally have information on relevant past experience and other characteristics of the prospective sellers
Control Account
Qualified seller lists
Precedence Relationships
Corrective Action
49. 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
Scope baseline
Project Integration Management
Close procurements
Scope Changes
50. 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.
Performance Reviews
Schedule Baseline
Brainstorming
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)