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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how a team will acquire goods and services from outside of the performing organization.
Procurement Management Plan
Schedule Compression
Fast Tracking
Late Start Date
2. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Earned Value
Phase Gate
Variance at Completion
Analogous Estimating
3. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Cost Performance Index
Project Calendar
Resource Calendar
Project Schedule
4. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Parametric Estimating
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Organizational Process Assets
5. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that is required to be produced to complete a process - phase - or project.
Project Management Office
Level of Effort
Deliverable
Trigger Condition
6. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Finish-to-Finish
Earned Value Management
Stakeholder
WBS Dictionary
7. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Late Start Date
Optimistic Duration
Progressive Elaboration
8. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Portfolio
Cost Management Plan
Predecessor Activity
Percent Complete
9. A critical path method technique for calculating the early start and early finish dates by working forward through the schedule model from the project start date or a given point in time.
Discrete Effort
Risk Management Plan
Threat
Forward Pass
10. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Forward Pass
Decision Tree Analysis
Three-Point Estimate
Bottom-up Estimating
11. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Risk Avoidance
Schedule Performance Index
Schedule Variance
Project Manager
12. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Schedule Management Plan
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Life Cycle
Backward Pass
13. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Project Manager
Schedule Management Plan
Project Scope Statement
Change Request
14. A technique used to estimate cost or duration by applying an average of optimistic - pessimistic - and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates.
Three-Point Estimate
Project Management
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Secondary Risk
15. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Project Management
Percent Complete
Project
Risk
16. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Decision Tree Analysis
Decomposition
Risk Mitigation
Cost Performance Index
17. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Cost Management Plan
Risk Register
Schedule Compression
Requirements Traceability Matrix
18. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Risk
Change Control Board
Program
Finish-to-Start
19. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Start-to-Finish
Stakeholder
Organizational Process Assets
Corrective Action
20. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Lead
Estimate to Complete
Change Control Board
Early Start Date
21. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to a program to meet the program requirements and to obtain benefits and control not available by managing projects individually.
Percent Complete
Progressive Elaboration
Program Management
Discrete Effort
22. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Crashing
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Project Scope Statement
Decomposition
23. In the critical path method - the earliest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can finish based on the schedule network logic - the data date - and any schedule constraints.
Late Finish Date
Critical Chain Method
Early Finish Date
Change Request
24. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Project Scope
Procurement Management Plan
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Early Finish Date
25. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Schedule Performance Index
Trigger Condition
Deliverable
Secondary Risk
26. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Schedule Performance Index
Earned Value Management
Estimate at Completion
Milestone
27. An activity that does not produce definitive end products and is measured by the passage of time. (Note: Level of effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance.)
Probability and Impact Matrix
Risk Mitigation
Estimate at Completion
Level of Effort
28. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Actual Cost
Scope Baseline
Late Finish Date
29. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Staffing Management Plan
Path Convergence
Decomposition
30. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Change Control
Analogous Estimating
Percent Complete
Cost Performance Index
31. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Threat
Risk Breakdown Structure
Assumption
Schedule Baseline
32. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Parametric Estimating
Summary Activity
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Control Account
33. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Project Charter
Constraint
Parametric Estimating
Scope Management Plan
34. A method used to estimate the minimum project duration and determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on the logical network paths within the schedule model.
Portfolio
Risk Management Plan
Critical Path Method
Successor Activity
35. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Planned Value
To-Complete Performance Index
Variance at Completion
Precedence Diagramming Method
36. A group of related projects - subprograms and program activities that are managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually.
Program
Parametric Estimating
Sponsor
Project Scope
37. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Procurement Management Plan
Requirement
Portfolio
Project Management Office
38. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Sponsor
Schedule Variance
Path Convergence
Requirements Management Plan
39. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Acceptance Criteria
Finish-to-Finish
Actual Cost
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
40. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Change Control Board
Communication Management Plan
Phase Gate
Assumption
41. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Trigger Condition
What-If Sce
Phase Gate
Project Schedule
42. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Performing Organization
Change Control
Defect Repair
Predecessor Activity
43. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Project Charter
Project Phase
Organizational Process Assets
Project Schedule Network Diagram
44. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Cost Performance Index
Earned Value Management
Project Manager
Risk Transference
45. A condition or capability that is required to be present in a product - service - or result to satisfy a contract or other formally imposed specification.
Requirement
Earned Value Management
Early Finish Date
Organizational Process Assets
46. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Project Scope
Decomposition
Schedule Compression
Milestone
47. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Estimate to Complete
What-If Sce
Pessimistic Duration
Critical Path
48. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Earned Value Management
Scope Creep
Quality Management Plan
Organizational Process Assets
49. A review at the end of a phase in which a decision is made to continue to the next phase - to continue with modification - or to end a project or program.
Phase Gate
Risk Acceptance
Organizational Process Assets
Free Float
50. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Analogous Estimating
Risk Mitigation
Project Manager
Acceptance Criteria