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1. 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






2. Special category of revised cost estimates to an approved cost baseline.






3. Structured method to guide the project team during development of project plan. Standard forms and templates or even complicated simulations may be used.






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






5. 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.






6. Defines the procedures by which project scope can be changed; includes paperwork - tracking systems and approval levels necessary for authorizing changes.






7. The process to develop an approximation (estimate) of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities.






8. Changing the project management plan to eliminate the threat entirely.






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. Dependencies that are contractually required or those inherent in the nature of the work. Often involve physical limitations.






12. Seeking to shift the consequences of the risk to a third party together with the ownership for the response.






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






14. 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.






15. Includes the processes that help to estimate - budget - and control costs - so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.






16. Incurred for the exclusive benefit of the project (e.g. - salaries of full-time project staff).






17. The process to identify and document project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - report relationships - and create a staffing management plan.






18. The process of analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements - and schedule constrains to create the project schedule






19. An applicable restriction that will affect the performance of the project/process.






20. Probability that a risk will occur.






21. A formal procedure for authorizing project work to ensure that work is done by the identified organization at the right time and in proper sequence.






22. 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






23. 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.






24. 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






25. 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






26. Reduce the probability and/or consequence of an adverse risk event to be within acceptable threshold limits.






27. 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






28. Document that formally authorizes a project. Provides project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.






29. Describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project.






30. 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






31. A method of obtaining early feedback on requirements by providing a working model of the expected product before actually building it.






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






33. Technique to evaluate the degree to which data about risks is useful for risk management.






34. Measuring - examining and testing undertaken to determine whether results conform to requirements; also called reviews - product reviews - audits - and walkthroughs






35. 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






36. Group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain control and benefits that are not available if managed individually.






37. The process of determining project stakeholders' information needs and defining a communication approach.






38. They possess a blend of functional and projectized characteristics. Weak matrices maintain many of the characteristics of a functional organization - and the Project Manager's role is more that of a coordinator or expediter than that of a manager. Si






39. 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.






40. 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.






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






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






43. Focused sessions that bring key cross-functional stakeholders together to define product requirements






44. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project






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






46. 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






47. A group of documented procedure used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to: a) Identify and document the system's functional and physical characteristics; b)Control any changes to such characteristics; c) Record and repo






48. Factors that will limit the project management team's options (e.g. - a predefined budget)






49. Involves setting a fixed total price for a defined product or service to be provided.






50. Allows for probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimates