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1. It is used to identify stakeholders that can provide information on detailed project and product requirements. It contains the following information regarding the identified stakeholders: identification information (name - designation - location - co
Resource Leveling
Residual Risks
Stakeholder register
Free Float
2. 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.
Schedule Baseline
Close procurements
Quality Metrics
Control Costs
3. The process to develop an approximation (estimate) of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities.
Grade
Quality
Simulation
Project Cost Management
4. 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
Risk Database
Control Schedule
Precedence Relationships
Constraints
5. 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.
Project Communications Management
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Quantitatively based durations
Coding Structure
6. 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
Training
Trend Analysis
Project Human Resource Management
Project Integration Management
7. Systematic process of planning - identifying - analyzing - responding - and monitoring and controlling project risk. It increases the probability and impact of positive events - and decrease the probability and impact of negative events in the projec
Precedence Relationships
Residual Risks
Independent estimates
Project Risk Management
8. Structured review of the project plans and assumptions - prior project files - contracts - and other information.
Team Development
Documentation Reviews
Coding Structure
Product description
9. Responses to emerging risks that was previously unidentified or accepted. These were not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event.
Procurement performance reviews
Workaround plans
Conduct Procurements
Inspection
10. 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
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Functional Organization
Total Float
Project Schedule
11. A collection of formal (note: not informal) documented procedures - which defines how the documentation and project deliverables will be managed - changed and approved.
Change Control System
Manage Stakeholder
Project Files
Subproject
12. The process of approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Project Risk Management
Estimate Activity Durations
Project Schedule
13. Policies - guidelines and procedures that can help the project management team with various aspects of organizational planning.
Product Scope
Project Life Cycle
Human Resource Practices
Administer procurements
14. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.
Tolerances vs. Control limits
Work Results
Recruitment Practices
Free Float
15. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Initiation
Revised Cost Estimates
Monitor and Control Risks
16. 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.
Constraints
Sequence Activities
Re-baselining
Project Portfolio Management
17. 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
Re-baselining
Requirements Traceability Matrix
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Staffing Pool Description
18. 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.
Benchmarking
Root Cause Analysis
Recruitment Practices
Acceptance
19. It shortens the project schedule without changing the project scope - in order to meet schedule constraints - imposed dates - or other schedule objectives. -. This technique includes crashing and fast tracking.
Deliverable
Quality Policy
Schedule Compression
Project Selection Methods
20. Bring together prequalified stakeholders and subject matter experts to learn about their expectations and attitudes about a proposed product - service - or result
Scope Management Plan
Focus groups
Cost Performance Baseline
Performance Reviews
21. 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
Project
Cost Management Plan
Control Account
Brainstorming
22. It includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - dissemination - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information.
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
Project Communications Management
Cost Management Plan
Earned Value Analysis
23. 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
Sensitivity Analysis
Data Precision Ranking
Project Scope Management
Expert Judgment
24. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Project Life Cycle
Project Closeout
Staffing Pool Description
25. 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.
Project Scope Management
Deliverable
Communication Requirements Analysis
Performance Reports
26. Special category of revised cost estimates to an approved cost baseline.
Prevention vs. Inspections
Parametric Estimating
Verify Scope
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
27. Changing the project management plan to eliminate the threat entirely.
Communication Requirements Analysis
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
Buyer-Seller relationship
Avoidance
28. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.
Procurement file
Project Planning Methodology
Plan Procurements
Statistical Sampling
29. 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
Lessons Learned
Organizational Policies
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Work Authorization System
30. Group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain control and benefits that are not available if managed individually.
Data precision
Communications management plan
Control Scope
Program
31. 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
Qualified seller lists
Constraints
Expert Judgment
Quality Policy
32. The total amount of time that a schedule activity may be delayed from its early start without delaying the project finish date - or violating a schedule constraint. Calculated using the critical path method technique and determining the difference be
Project Human Resource Management
Total Float
Quality Metrics
Activity List
33. Includes identified risks - risk owners - results of Perform qualitative risk analysis process - agreed upon response strategies - etc.
Bidder Conferences
Risk Register
Quality Audit
Determine Budget
34. Outcome of activities performed to accomplish the project.
Risk Management Plan
Project Planning Methodology
Inspection
Work Results
35. Process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.
Project Procurement Management
Plan Risk Management
Human Resource Practices
Control Scope
36. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Stakeholder register
Code of Accounts
Quality Policy
37. A formal or informal approach to obtain information from stakeholders by talking to them directly
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Manage Stakeholder
Interviews
Collocation
38. 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.
Re-baselining
Group Decision Making Techniques
Triggers
Quality Metrics
39. Any modification to the agreed upon project scope as defined by the approved WBS
Project Schedule
Scope Changes
Acquire Project Team
Source Selection Criteria
40. The process to identify and document project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - report relationships - and create a staffing management plan.
Project Time Management
Develop Human Resource Plan
Risk Audits
Performance Reviews
41. 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
Analogous Estimating (top-down)
Bottom-up Estimating
Project Team Directory
Rework
42. 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.
Perform Quality Control
Control Scope
Prioritized list of quantified risks
Revised Cost Estimates
43. 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.
Focus groups
Risk Consequences
Cost Management Plan
Inspection
44. A mathematical technique to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. This is performed using run charts.
Configuration Management System
Bidder Conferences
Trend Analysis
Control Account
45. Process to monitor the status of the project to update the project budget and manage changes to the cost baseline.
Requirements Documentation
Project Schedule
Quality Audit
Constraints
46. 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
Quality Metrics
Product description
Subproject
Identify Risks
47. 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
Constraints
Project Files
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
48. Includes the processes that organize - manage - and lead the project team.
Project Human Resource Management
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Estimate Activity Resources
Performance Reports
49. 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.
Buyer-Seller relationship
Lead
Project Communications Management
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
50. Meetings that are regularly scheduled to exchange and analyze information about the project and its performance.
Configuration Management System
Free Float
Status Review Meetings
Procurement resources