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1. Technique to evaluate the degree to which data about risks is useful for risk management.
Data Precision Ranking
Conditional Diagramming Methods
Project Quality Management
Avoidance
2. 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.
Project Quality Management
Quality Assurance
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
Matrix Organization
3. The policies - guidelines - or procedures that govern the recruitment of staff.
Plan Risk Responses
Procurement negotiations
Recruitment Practices
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
4. 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.
Performance Reports
Plan Communications
Product Analysis
Project Quality Management
5. This compares technical accomplishments during project execution with the project management plan's schedule of technical achievement.
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
Tolerances vs. Control limits
Activity List
Technical performance measurement
6. Describes the processes required to ensure timely completion of the project. It includes defining activities - sequencing activities - estimating activity resources - estimating activity durations - developing the schedule - and controlling the sched
Constraints
Project Time Management
Project Schedule
Earned Value Analysis
7. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.
Scope Change Control System
Bottom-up Estimating
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Observations
8. Also called risk symptoms or warning signs - they are indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. They may be discovered in the risk identification process and watched in the risk monitoring and control process.
Independent estimates
Risk
Triggers
Constraints
9. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments.
System or Process
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Differences between Operations and Project
Acquire Project Team
10. 1. Operations do not have any timelines. Projects are temporary and have finite time duration. 2. Operation's objective is usually to sustain the business. Project's objective is to achieve the target and close the project.
Risk Categories
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Project Management
Differences between Operations and Project
11. 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
Total Float
Scope Management Plan
Simulation
External Feedback
12. Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM) includes four types of dependencies or relationships between activities: 1. Finish to Start; 2. Finish to Finish; 3. Start to Finish; 4. Start to Start
Estimate Activity Resources
Project Communications Management
Precedence Relationships
Qualified seller lists
13. Responses to emerging risks that was previously unidentified or accepted. These were not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event.
Human Resource Practices
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Workaround plans
Requirements Documentation
14. Involves immediate corrective or preventive action as a consequence of quality control measurements.
Lessons Learned
Rework
Re-baselining
Process Adjustments
15. Features or services that characterize a product - result - or service
Fixed- price contracts
Product Scope
Procurement audits
Procurement Management Plan
16. Formal written notice from a person or organization responsible for contract administration - informing that the contract has been completed.
Resource Calendar
Crashing
Formal acceptance and closure
Procurement Documents
17. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measure of scale such as size - weight - and complexity - from a previous - similar activity as the basis for estimating the same parameter o
Revised Cost Estimates
Qualified seller lists
Plan Risk Management
Benchmarking
18. 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.
Projectized Organization
Requirements Documentation
Lead
Free Float
19. Process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables
Subproject
Control Account
Quantitatively based durations
Verify Scope
20. 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.
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Root Cause Analysis
Define Scope
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
21. Describes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - dissemination and ultimate disposition of project information. It includes identifying stakeholders - planning communication - distributing information - mana
Requirements Documentation
Project Communications Management
Critical Path Method
Documentation Reviews
22. Formal and informal policies that are required for project plan development. Organizational policies include quality management - personnel administration and financial controls.
Organizational Policies
Control Account
Simulation
Benchmarking
23. Any modification to the contents of the project plan or the supporting details.
Procurement performance reviews
Project Plan Updates
Plan Communications
Scope Change Control System
24. Used to rate or score seller proposals
Human Resource Practices
Additional Risk Response Planning
Scope Management Plan
Source Selection Criteria
25. 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
Critical Path Method
Team Development
External Dependencies
Change Requests
26. The process of analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements - and schedule constrains to create the project schedule
Develop Schedule
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
Prototypes
Constraints
27. Complete set of indexed contract documentation - including the closed contract - that is prepared for inclusion with the final project files
Procurement resources
Procurement file
Requirements Documentation
Program
28. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives.
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Develop Human Resource Plan
Project Scope Management
Risk Database
29. Process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.
Control Scope
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Bidder Conferences
Crashing
30. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.
Statistical Sampling
Checklists
Flowcharts
Assumptions
31. 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
Risk Database
Change Requests
Risk Audits
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
32. Mutually binding legal agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified products - services - or results - and obligates the buyer to compensate the seller.
Contract
Bid / quotation
Performance Reports
Quality Metrics
33. The work that must be done to deliver a product with the specified features and functions
Performance Reports
Project Scope
Project Procurement Management
Revised Cost Estimates
34. Seller prepared documents that describe the seller's ability and willingness to provide the requested product.
Assumptions
Project Time Management
Proposals
Subproject
35. 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
Control Scope
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Risk probability
Project Schedule
36. Document that formally authorizes a project. Provides project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Stakeholder Analysis
Project Files
Project Charter
Collocation
37. Refers to the centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic business objectives. Portfolio management ensures that the portfolios are reviewed to ascertain that resources are allocated as per priority and the allocation is con
Project Charter
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Project Portfolio Management
Constraints
38. Hybrid type of contractual agreements that contain aspects of both cost-reimbursable and fixed- price contracts. Some characteristics: · Open-ended - i.e. - full value of the agreement and the exact quantity of items to be delivered may not be define
Quality Metrics
Contract Change Control System
External Dependencies
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
39. 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.
Quality Improvement
Manage Stakeholder
Quality
Resource Calendar
40. Describes the processes required to acquire goods and services from outside the project team. It includes planning procurements - conducting procurements - administering procurements - and closing procurements.
Total Float
Product Analysis
Project Procurement Management
Product description
41. Expectations The process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur. Project manager applies appropriate interpersonal skills to manage stakeholder expectations - for example - by building t
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Schedule updates
Manage Stakeholder
Budget Updates
42. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project
Project Integration Management
Triggers
Bidder Conferences
Perform Quality Control
43. A functional organization has a hierarchy in which every employee has one clear superior. Staff members are grouped by areas of specialization. Functional organizations may still have projects - but the perceived scope of the project is defined by th
Focus groups
Functional Organization
Plan Quality
Earned Value Analysis
44. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle
Constraints
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Charter
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
45. 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.
Risk management policies
Checklists
Quality Improvement
Transference
46. Process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline
Scope Management Plan
Resource Pool Descriptions
Control Schedule
Fast Tracking
47. Describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project.
Inspection
Project Assumption Testing
Requirements Documentation
Coding Structure
48. Application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Sequence Activities
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Project Management
49. Documents the characteristics of the product - result - or service which the project is undertaken to create.
Conditional Diagramming Methods
Schedule Compression
Project Risk Management
Product Description
50. Seeking to shift the consequences of the risk to a third party together with the ownership for the response.
Project Scope Management
Transference
Mitigation
Project Procurement Management