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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. 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.
Lag
Effort
Apportioned Effort
Deliverable
2. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Risk Register
Requirements Management Plan
Crashing
Start-to-Finish
3. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Performing Organization
Logical Relationship
Organizational Process Assets
Constraint
4. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Project Charter
Risk Transference
Analogous Estimating
Acceptance Criteria
5. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Defect Repair
Requirements Management Plan
Lessons Learned
Summary Activity
6. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Decomposition
Sponsor
Discrete Effort
Project Manager
7. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Effort
Data Date
Product Life Cycle
Project Management Plan
8. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Staffing Management Plan
What-If Sce
Project Manager
Path Divergence
9. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Discrete Effort
WBS Dictionary
Actual Cost
Variance Analysis
10. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
WBS Dictionary
Planned Value
Critical Chain Method
Project Calendar
11. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Program Management
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Charter
Scope Management Plan
12. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Successor Activity
Assumption
Critical Path Activity
Corrective Action
13. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Lead
Milestone
Progressive Elaboration
Sponsor
14. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Rolling Wave Planning
Path Divergence
Product Life Cycle
Scope Management Plan
15. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Critical Path Activity
Risk
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Gantt Chart
16. 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.
Critical Path Method
Rolling Wave Planning
Program Management Office
Precedence Diagramming Method
17. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Risk
Decision Tree Analysis
Risk Management Plan
18. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Analogous Estimating
Resource Leveling
Control Account
Pessimistic Duration
19. In the critical path method - the earliest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start based on the schedule network logic - the data date - and any schedule constraints.
Portfolio Management
Activity
Sponsor
Early Start Date
20. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Project Life Cycle
Performing Organization
Decision Tree Analysis
Product Life Cycle
21. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Schedule Management Plan
Opportunity
Project Schedule
Portfolio
22. 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.
Project Calendar
Forward Pass
Rolling Wave Planning
Lead
23. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Program
Project Calendar
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Risk
24. 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
Lessons Learned
Precedence Diagramming Method
Procurement Management Plan
Program Management
25. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Planned Value
Early Finish Date
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Backward Pass
26. 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.
Activity
Free Float
Critical Path
Cost Variance
27. 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.
Change Control System
Project Schedule
To-Complete Performance Index
Human Resource Plan
28. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Critical Path
Resource Breakdown Structure
Risk Acceptance
Bottom-up Estimating
29. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Project Schedule
Variance at Completion
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Sponsor
30. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Critical Path Method
Finish-to-Start
Successor Activity
Preventive Action
31. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Optimistic Duration
Project Manager
S-Curve Analysis
Staffing Management Plan
32. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Schedule Model Analysis
Risk Register
Successor Activity
Project Schedule Network Diagram
33. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Backward Pass
Predecessor Activity
Cost Performance Index
Staffing Management Plan
34. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Estimate to Complete
Scope Creep
Schedule Management Plan
Data Date
35. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio
Change Control System
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Risk Avoidance
36. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Defect Repair
Risk Mitigation
Apportioned Effort
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
37. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Requirement
Effort
Control Account
S-Curve Analysis
38. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Rolling Wave Planning
Bottom-up Estimating
Change Control Board
WBS Dictionary
39. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Activity
Sponsor
Earned Value Management
Earned Value
40. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Start-to-Start
Project Phase
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Finish-to-Finish
41. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Start-to-Start
Risk Mitigation
42. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Project Scope Statement
Preventive Action
Bottom-up Estimating
Schedule Management Plan
43. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Project Management
To-Complete Performance Index
Schedule Compression
Lead
44. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Program Management
Critical Path
Budget at Completion
Resource Breakdown Structure
45. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Parametric Estimating
Effort
Corrective Action
Constraint
46. 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.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Forward Pass
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Requirement
47. A bar chart of schedule information where activities are listed on the vertical axis - dates are shown on the horizontal axis - and activity durations are shown as horizontal bars placed according to start and finish dates.
Gantt Chart
Critical Path
Three-Point Estimate
Fast Tracking
48. 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.
Portfolio Management
Budget at Completion
Procurement Management Plan
Summary Activity
49. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
WBS Dictionary
Risk Transference
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Schedule Baseline
50. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Pessimistic Duration
Successor Activity
What-If Sce
Sponsor