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1. 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
Project Life Cycle
Plan Procurements
Quality Improvement
2. Includes the processes that help to estimate - budget - and control costs - so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
Assumptions Analysis
Performance Reports
Inspection
Project Quality Management
3. Quantities to be performed for each specific category - and can be used to estimate activity durations
Close procurements
Quantitatively based durations
Constraints
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
4. A deliverable is a unique - tangible and verifiable work/product. Each project phase is marked by the completion of one or more deliverables.
Cost Performance Baseline
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Assumptions Analysis
Deliverable
5. 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
Communications management plan
Sensitivity Analysis
Conduct Procurements
Scope baseline
6. 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.
Parametric Estimating
Risk Consequences
Project Cost Management
Corrective Action
7. Descriptions of which resources will be available at what times and in what patterns necessary for schedule development
Risk Register
Project Communications Management
Resource Pool Descriptions
Conditional Diagramming Methods
8. It can include correspondence - memos - meeting minutes - and documents describing the project.
Parametric Estimating
Source Selection Criteria
Project Records
Activity List
9. Generally used when considerations like technical approach and technical skills are paramount in source selection
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Proposal
Statistical Sampling
Project Records
10. A general management technique used to determine whether a particular work can be accomplished by the project team or must be purchased from outside sources.
Make-or-buy analysis
Bid / quotation
Avoidance
Change Control System
11. Activities specifically taken by management and team members to help individual team members work together effectively - thereby improving team performance
Acquire Project Team
Project Portfolio Management
Team Building Activities
Procurement Documents
12. This compares technical accomplishments during project execution with the project management plan's schedule of technical achievement.
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Facilitated Workshops
Project Human Resource Management
Technical performance measurement
13. A collection of formal (note: not informal) documented procedures - which defines how the documentation and project deliverables will be managed - changed and approved.
Project Procurement Management
Change Control System
Constraints
Regulation
14. Project team accepts the risk - i.e. team decides not to change the project plan to deal with the risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy.
Acceptance
Control Schedule
Root Cause Analysis
Matrix Organization
15. 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
Cost Performance Baseline
Organization Chart
Project Time Management
Recruitment Practices
16. A schedule compression technique in which cost and schedule tradeoffs are analyzed to determine how to obtain the greatest amount of compression for the least incremental cost. Crashing only works for activities where additional resources will shorte
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Parametric Estimating
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Crashing
17. Processes and procedures developed for the closing or canceling of projects.
Corrective Action
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Inspection
System or Process
18. Describes the procurement item in sufficient detail to allow prospective sellers to determine if they are capable of providing the products - services - or results.
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Work Results
Product Description
Group Creativity Techniques
19. 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
Make-or-buy analysis
System or Process
Precedence Relationships
Contract Change Control System
20. A method of estimating a component of work. The work is decomposed into more detail. An estimate is prepared of what is needed to meet the requirements of each of the lower - more detailed pieces of work. These estimates are then aggregated into a to
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Program
Conditional Diagramming Methods
Risk management policies
21. Provide a structure that ensures a comprehensive process of systematically identifying risks to a consistent level of detail and contributes to the effectiveness and quality of the Identify Risks process. They include categories like technical - exte
Risk Categories
Project Team Directory
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Prioritized list of quantified risks
22. Used to generate - classify - and prioritize product requirements. Some methods used to reach group decisions are: unanimity - majority - plurality - and dictatorship.
Group Decision Making Techniques
Prototypes
Acquire Project Team
Communication Requirements Analysis
23. 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
Functional Organization
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Qualified seller lists
Quality Management Plan
24. A formal or informal approach to obtain information from stakeholders by talking to them directly
Interviews
Procurement audits
Bid / quotation
Lessons Learned
25. 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
Decomposition
Quality Management Plan
Procurement performance reviews
Simulation
26. Allows for probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimates
Human Resource Practices
Project Human Resource Management
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Mathematical Analysis
27. Factors that limit a buyer's options. E.g. - funds availability
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Constraints
Change Requests
28. 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
Assumptions
Contract
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Control Scope
29. Estimating or predicting future project status and progress based on knowledge and information available at the time of forecasting.
Project Life Cycle
Mitigation
Forecasting
Prevention vs. Inspections
30. Process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.
Mitigation
Determine Budget
Control Scope
Triggers
31. Collection of generally sequential project phases.
Project Life Cycle
Bid / quotation
Activity List
Change Control System
32. 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
Project Plan
Communications management plan
Critical Path Method
Procurement audits
33. Process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - ad making changes and corrections as needed.
Administer procurements
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Stakeholder Analysis
System or Process
34. 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 Human Resource Management
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Tolerances vs. Control limits
Simulation
35. Records of previous project results that can be used to identify risks.
Project Files
Acceptance
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Lessons Learned
36. Used to solicit proposals from prospective sellers
Focus groups
Critical Path Method
Determine Budget
Procurement Documents
37. 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.
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Procurement file
Collect Requirements
Risk Audits
38. Describes the processes concerned with identifying - analyzing - and responding to project risk. It includes planning risk management - identifying risks - performing qualitative risk analysis - performing quantitative risk analysis - planning risk r
Status Review Meetings
Resource Pool Descriptions
Performance Reports
Project Risk Management
39. 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.
Sequence Activities
Control Costs
Project
Staffing Pool Description
40. The process to develop an approximation (estimate) of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities.
Product Scope
Estimate Costs
Code of Accounts
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
41. Dependencies that are contractually required or those inherent in the nature of the work. Often involve physical limitations.
Report Performance
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Control Scope
Control Account
42. Process of assessing and combining the impact and the likelihood of identified risks. Prioritizes risks according to their potential effect on project objectives for further analysis or action.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Collect Requirements
Workaround plans
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
43. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Brainstorming
Quality Assurance
Code of Accounts
Root Cause Analysis
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.
Product Analysis
Project Closeout
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Root Cause Analysis
45. Involves procedures required to close a contract as specified in the prescribed procedures for close procurements. Includes product verification and administrative closure.
Flowcharts
Simulation
Close procurements
Performance Reviews
46. The policies - guidelines - or procedures that govern the recruitment of staff.
Re-baselining
Recruitment Practices
Project Team Directory
Change Requests
47. Includes the processes that help to estimate - budget - and control costs - so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
Checklists
Assumptions
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Project Cost Management
48. Process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables
Verify Scope
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Cost Management Plan
Plan Procurements
49. Processes and procedures developed for the closing or canceling of projects.
Project Closeout
Inspection
Conduct Procurements
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
50. 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
Human Resource Practices
Qualified seller lists
Plan Quality
Control Account