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Subjects : certifications, capm
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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. Processes and procedures developed for the closing or canceling of projects.






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






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






5. Quantities to be performed for each specific category - and can be used to estimate activity durations






6. Diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives.






7. 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.






8. 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






9. Provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing common understanding of the project scope among the stakeholders






10. 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






11. 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.






12. 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






13. Meetings held to assess project status and/or progress.






14. Activities specifically taken by management and team members to help individual team members work together effectively - thereby improving team performance






15. An accepted action performed to bring projected future project performance in line with the project plan. These actions have to be documented.






16. Factors that - for planning purposes - will be considered true - real or certain.






17. Features or services that characterize a product - result - or service






18. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed.






19. Includes all those activities designed to enhance the competencies of the project team members. Training can be formal or informal.






20. Allow for non-sequential activities (e.g. Loops or Conditional Branches); e.g. - GERT(Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique) and System Dynamics






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






22. 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






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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






29. Process of developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives. Includes the identification and assignment of individuals to take responsibility for each agreed-to and funded risk response.






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






31. 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.






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






33. A partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing - and presenting information and data.






34. Outcome of activities performed to accomplish the project.






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






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






37. Process of developing a detailed description of the project and product






38. A structured review of the seller's progress to deliver project scope and quality - within cost and on schedule - as compared to the contract.






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






40. Dependencies determined by the Project Management Team; involve a relationship between project activities and non-project activities (i.e. - dependencies on issues that are beyond the scope of the project). These dependencies are outside the project






41. It can include correspondence - memos - meeting minutes - and documents describing the project.






42. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.






43. 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






44. The policies - guidelines - or procedures that govern the recruitment of staff.






45. Documents the characteristics of the product - result - or service which the project is undertaken to create.






46. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments.






47. A hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units.






48. 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






49. Describes the processes required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project. It includes developing the human resource plan - acquiring the project team - developing the project team - and managing the project team.






50. 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