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1. 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
Project Life Cycle
Risk Consequences
Contingency - Buffer - Reserve
2. 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.
Program
Precedence Relationships
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Risk Management Plan
3. A management control point where the resource plans - scope - schedule and actual cost are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Project Schedule
Performance Reports
Control Account
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
4. The process of making relevant information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner - as planned. Performed throughout the entire project life cycle and in all management processes.
Plan Procurements
Bid / quotation
Distribute Information
Project Charter
5. Factors that will limit the project management team's options (e.g. - a predefined budget)
Project Quality Management
Prototypes
Manage Stakeholder
Constraints
6. Testing identified assumptions against two criteria: assumption stability and consequences on the project if the assumption is false.
Distribute Information
Decomposition
Project Management
Project Assumption Testing
7. Processes and procedures developed for the closing or canceling of projects.
Project Closeout
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Risk Management Plan
8. 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
Stakeholder register
Risk Database
Project Time Management
Control Costs
9. A structured review of the seller's progress to deliver project scope and quality - within cost and on schedule - as compared to the contract.
Procurement performance reviews
Organization Chart
Quality Management Plan
Collocation
10. 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 description
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Subproject
Distribute Information
11. 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.
Contract Change Control System
Project Human Resource Management
Critical Path Method
Staffing Requirements
12. 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.
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Cost-reimbursable contracts
Scope baseline
Monitor and Control Risks
13. Organize and summarize the information gathered - and present the results of any analysis as compared to the performance measurement baseline. Reports should provide status and progress of the project at the required level of detail.
Procurement Management Plan
Functional Organization
Performance Reports
Crashing
14. 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.
Distribute Information
Earned Value Analysis
Project Quality Management
Identify Stakeholders
15. Document that formally authorizes a project. Provides project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Quality
Project Charter
Life Cycle Costing
Project Closeout
16. 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
Risk Register
Requirements Documentation
Fast Tracking
Precedence Relationships
17. The conclusion of a project phase is marked by a review of both key deliverables and project performance till date to determine if the project should continue into its next phase and detect and correct errors cost-effectively. These phase end reviews
Workaround plans
Regulation
Conduct Procurements
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
18. 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
Stakeholder Analysis
Staffing Requirements
Estimate Costs
Tolerances vs. Control limits
19. Documentation resulting from project activities. These files may also maintain records of other projects that are detailed enough to aid in developing cost estimates.
Project Files
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Risk Management
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
20. Factors that - for planning purposes - will be considered true - real or certain.
Root Cause Analysis
Contract Change Control System
Assumptions
Procurement file
21. Measuring - examining and testing undertaken to determine whether results conform to requirements; also called reviews - product reviews - audits - and walkthroughs
Free Float
Inspection
Project Cost Management
Prototypes
22. Describes how the procurement processes (from developing procurement documentation through contract closure) will be managed
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Rework
Lead
Procurement Management Plan
23. Process of implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks - and evaluating risk process effectiveness throughout the project.
Independent estimates
Plan Risk Responses
Monitor and Control Risks
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
24. Process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.
Stakeholder register
Schedule Baseline
Re-baselining
Control Scope
25. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Resource Leveling
Facilitated Workshops
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
26. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.
Free Float
Corrective Action
Schedule updates
Flowcharts
27. Approved modifications to the project schedule that are used to manage the project
Schedule updates
Project Charter
Collocation
Simulation
28. 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
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Make-or-buy analysis
Project Scope
Communications management plan
29. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.
Observations
Plan Communications
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Project Scope Management
30. Activities should have a coding structure to allow sorting and/or extractions based on different attributes assigned to the activities.
Contract
Resource Calendar
Proposal
Coding Structure
31. A matrix that assigns risk ratings to risks or conditions based on a combining probability and impact scales. Risks with high probability and high impact will require further analysis.
Cost Performance Baseline
Project Scope Management
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Probability and impact matrix
32. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.
Constraints
Free Float
Quality Metrics
Verify Scope
33. Used to generate - classify - and prioritize product requirements. Some methods used to reach group decisions are: unanimity - majority - plurality - and dictatorship.
Life Cycle Costing
Group Decision Making Techniques
Status Review Meetings
Inspection
34. A collection of formal (note: not informal) documented procedures - which defines how the documentation and project deliverables will be managed - changed and approved.
Constraints
Resource Leveling
Qualified seller lists
Change Control System
35. Helps to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. Examines the extent to which the uncertainty of each project element affects the objective being examined when all the other uncertain elements are held at their baseline v
Sensitivity Analysis
Observations
Acquire Project Team
Organizational Policies
36. The process of approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources
Estimate Activity Durations
Conditional Diagramming Methods
Proposals
Prototypes
37. 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
Corrective Action
Lessons Learned
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Constraints
38. 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
Identify Stakeholders
Grade
Risk management policies
39. A schedule network analysis technique used to determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on various logical network paths in the project schedule network - and to determine the minimum total project duration. Early start and finish dates are calc
Free Float
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Process Adjustments
Mathematical Analysis
40. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget. It includes estimating the cost - determining the budget - and controlling the costs.
Manage Stakeholder
Project Cost Management
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Change Control System
41. Technologies or methods to transfer information among project stakeholders.
Communications Technology
Acquire Project Team
Risk Management Plan
Performance Reviews
42. Subdivision of project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components
Checklists
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Decomposition
Determine Budget
43. Processes and procedures developed for the closing or canceling of projects.
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
Inspection
Control Charts
Data precision
44. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.
Staffing Pool Description
Estimate Costs
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Formal acceptance and closure
45. Process of developing a detailed description of the project and product
Project Records
Cost Management Plan
Define Scope
Project Procurement Management
46. 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
Observations
Qualified seller lists
Critical Path Method
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
47. Process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities. Sequencing can be performed by using project management software or by using manual or automated techniques.
Project Procurement Management
Procurement file
Control Scope
Sequence Activities
48. Bring together prequalified stakeholders and subject matter experts to learn about their expectations and attitudes about a proposed product - service - or result
Risk
Focus groups
Identify Risks
Status Review Meetings
49. A method of obtaining early feedback on requirements by providing a working model of the expected product before actually building it.
Plan Risk Management
Process Adjustments
Prototypes
Program
50. A modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity.
Quality Improvement
Lag
Project Scope Management
Risk Management Plan