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Subjects : certifications, capm
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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. 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.






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






6. Seller is a subcontractor - vendor - or supplier - who will typically manage the work of the project. Buyer is the customer who has outsourced work to the seller.






7. 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






8. Describes the extent to which a risk is known or understood. Measures extent of data available as well as reliability of data.






9. Charts/ 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 -






10. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints.






11. Process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project.






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






13. Used to rate or score seller proposals






14. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.






15. Process of changing the schedule baseline. It is done when schedule delays are very severe - and the project schedule has to be completely changed.






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






17. A deliverable is a unique - tangible and verifiable work/product. Each project phase is marked by the completion of one or more deliverables.






18. 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






19. A -specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives.






20. In a projectized organization - most of the organization's resources are involved in project work - and Project Managers have a great deal of independence and authority.






21. Collection of generally sequential project phases.






22. Checklists are structured tools - usually component specific - used to verify that a set of required steps has been performed and to ensure consistency in frequently performed tasks. These can be developed based on historical information and knowledg






23. Process to monitor the status of the project to update the project budget and manage changes to the cost baseline.






24. Policies - guidelines and procedures that can help the project management team with various aspects of organizational planning.






25. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.






26. 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






27. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.






28. Bring together prequalified stakeholders and subject matter experts to learn about their expectations and attitudes about a proposed product - service - or result






29. Complete set of indexed contract documentation - including the closed contract - that is prepared for inclusion with the final project files






30. 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






31. Used to solicit proposals from prospective sellers






32. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives.






33. 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






34. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.






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






36. Includes the processes required to purchase or acquire products - services - or results needed from outside the project team.






37. Documentation resulting from project activities. These files may also maintain records of other projects that are detailed enough to aid in developing cost estimates.






38. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






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






40. Documents how requirements will be analyzed - documented - and managed throughout the project






41. Specify lessons that can be learned from each and every project - even from projects which are failures. They need to be documented. Most companies prefer post-implementation meetings and case studies to document Lessons Learned






42. Estimating or predicting future project status and progress based on knowledge and information available at the time of forecasting.






43. Records of previous project results that can be used to identify risks.






44. Deliverable- oriented grouping of project components that organizes and defines the total scope of the project - work not in the WBS is outside the scope of the project.






45. 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.






46. List of risks includes those that pose the greatest threat or present the greatest opportunity to the project together with a measure of their impact.






47. 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






48. Involves immediate corrective or preventive action as a consequence of quality control measurements.






49. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.






50. 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