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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Sponsor
Progressive Elaboration
Human Resource Plan
Organizational Breakdown Structure
2. A critical path method technique for calculating the late start and late finish dates by working backward through the schedule model from the project end date.
Change Control System
Backward Pass
Threat
Resource Calendar
3. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Cost Management Plan
Lag
Project
Scope Creep
4. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Scope Creep
Quality Management Plan
Path Convergence
Defect Repair
5. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Project Phase
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Change Control System
Organizational Project Management Maturity
6. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships - and staff management will be addressed and structured.
Schedule Performance Index
Optimistic Duration
Estimate to Complete
Human Resource Plan
7. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Stakeholder
Lag
Estimate to Complete
8. 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.
Change Request
Procurement Management Plan
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Discrete Effort
9. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Project Calendar
Change Control Board
Schedule Variance
Decomposition
10. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Critical Path
Human Resource Plan
Cost Management Plan
Lead
11. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Staffing Management Plan
Parametric Estimating
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Quality Management Plan
12. 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.)
Portfolio
Program Management
Level of Effort
Requirement
13. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Quality Management Plan
Project Calendar
Change Control Board
Crashing
14. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Portfolio Management
Activity
Parametric Estimating
Crashing
15. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Critical Path Activity
Free Float
Resource Leveling
Project Management Plan
16. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Path Convergence
Schedule Performance Index
Quality Management Plan
Portfolio Balancing
17. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Change Control Board
Path Convergence
Risk Management Plan
Start-to-Finish
18. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Sponsor
Pessimistic Duration
Effort
Opportunity
19. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Total Float
Critical Path Activity
Threat
Finish-to-Finish
20. A technique used for constructing a schedule model in which activities are represented by nodes and are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are to be performed.
Finish-to-Finish
Predecessor Activity
Precedence Diagramming Method
Forward Pass
21. In the critical path method - the latest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can finish based on the schedule network logic - the project completion date - and any schedule constraints.
Late Finish Date
Decision Tree Analysis
Stakeholder
Precedence Diagramming Method
22. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Quality Management Plan
Scope Management Plan
Project Phase
23. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Scope Baseline
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Constraint
Change Request
24. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Defect Repair
Decomposition
What-If Sce
Threat
25. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Risk Avoidance
Change Control System
Requirement
Preventive Action
26. An iterative planning technique in which the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail - while the work in the future is planned at a higher level.
Communication Management Plan
Rolling Wave Planning
Risk Breakdown Structure
Project Management Office
27. A group of potential causes of risk.
Cost Variance
Lessons Learned
Risk Category
Risk
28. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Control Account
Pessimistic Duration
Communication Management Plan
Risk Register
29. 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.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Sponsor
Product Life Cycle
Phase Gate
30. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio Management
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Schedule Model Analysis
Project Scope Statement
31. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio
Probability and Impact Matrix
Earned Value
Baseline
32. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Deliverable
Percent Complete
Lead
Product Life Cycle
33. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Start-to-Finish
WBS Dictionary
Crashing
Sponsor
34. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Three-Point Estimate
Late Start Date
Project Management Office
Risk Management Plan
35. The approved version of a schedule model that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.
Lessons Learned
Rolling Wave Planning
Schedule Baseline
Phase Gate
36. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Program
Corrective Action
Effort
Schedule Baseline
37. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Project Schedule
Fast Tracking
Organizational Process Assets
38. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Estimate at Completion
Resource Breakdown Structure
Phase Gate
Precedence Diagramming Method
39. 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.
Apportioned Effort
Requirement
Defect Repair
To-Complete Performance Index
40. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any successor or violating a schedule constraint.
Free Float
Resource Calendar
Path Divergence
Schedule Performance Index
41. The knowledge gained during a project which shows how project events were addressed or should be addressed in the future for the purpose of improving future performance
Human Resource Plan
Lessons Learned
Risk Category
Data Date
42. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Lessons Learned
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Scope Management Plan
Communication Management Plan
43. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Late Finish Date
Change Control System
Project Management Plan
Critical Path
44. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Risk Avoidance
Change Request
Secondary Risk
Schedule Variance
45. A technique in which start and finish dates are adjusted based on resource constraints with the goal of balancing demand for resources with the available supply.
Schedule Compression
Critical Chain Method
Precedence Diagramming Method
Resource Leveling
46. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Program
Change Control
Variance at Completion
Probability and Impact Matrix
47. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Level of Effort
Critical Path Method
Resource Calendar
Planned Value
48. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Change Control
Human Resource Plan
Fast Tracking
Requirements Management Plan
49. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Trigger Condition
Fast Tracking
Pessimistic Duration
Logical Relationship
50. In the critical path method - the latest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start based on the schedule network logic - the project completion date - and any schedule constraints.
Critical Path
Start-to-Start
Late Start Date
Late Finish Date