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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Trigger Condition
Early Finish Date
Estimate at Completion
Program
2. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Risk Management Plan
Parametric Estimating
Stakeholder
Risk Acceptance
3. The approved version of a work product that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison.
Baseline
Most Likely Duration
Risk Transference
Requirement
4. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Budget at Completion
Earned Value Management
Variance Analysis
Activity
5. An individual - group - or organization who may affect - be affected by - or perceive itself to be affected by a decision - activity - or outcome of a project - program - or portfolio.
Path Convergence
Stakeholder
Portfolio
What-If Sce
6. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Assumption
Corrective Action
Rolling Wave Planning
Variance at Completion
7. 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.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Gantt Chart
Risk
Activity
8. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Cost Variance
Constraint
Risk Register
9. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Path Divergence
Project Phase
Cost Variance
Change Control
10. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Fast Tracking
Earned Value
Opportunity
Resource Breakdown Structure
11. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Quality Management Plan
Precedence Diagramming Method
Milestone
Code of Accounts
12. 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.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Earned Value
Crashing
Program
13. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Estimate at Completion
Corrective Action
Variance at Completion
Project Phase
14. 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.
Early Finish Date
Discrete Effort
Risk Avoidance
Risk Management Plan
15. 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
Project Life Cycle
Communication Management Plan
Lessons Learned
Discrete Effort
16. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Cost Variance
Project Phase
Budget at Completion
Project Schedule
17. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Staffing Management Plan
Probability and Impact Matrix
Portfolio Balancing
Project Manager
18. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Budget at Completion
Schedule Model
Defect Repair
19. A schedule compression technique in which activities or phases normally done in sequence are performed in parallel for at least a portion of their duration.
Fast Tracking
Risk Breakdown Structure
Constraint
Resource Calendar
20. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Constraint
Portfolio Balancing
Organizational Project Management Maturity
21. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Program Management Office
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Analogous Estimating
22. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Progressive Elaboration
Start-to-Finish
Quality Management Plan
Percent Complete
23. An activity where effort is allotted proportionately across certain discrete efforts and not divisible into discrete efforts. (Note: Apportioned effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance
Earned Value Management
Apportioned Effort
Summary Activity
Finish-to-Start
24. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Actual Cost
Earned Value
Forward Pass
Project Management Plan
25. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Project Life Cycle
Critical Path Method
Activity
Critical Path Activity
26. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Code of Accounts
Risk Transference
Planned Value
Lag
27. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Path Convergence
Planned Value
Effort
Organizational Process Assets
28. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Change Control
Change Control System
Variance at Completion
Schedule Model
29. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
WBS Dictionary
Change Control System
Bottom-up Estimating
Quality Management Plan
30. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Project Scope Statement
Risk Breakdown Structure
Fast Tracking
Data Date
31. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Cost Performance Index
Phase Gate
Sponsor
Project Scope
32. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Progressive Elaboration
Optimistic Duration
Analogous Estimating
Schedule Compression
33. 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.
Schedule Model
Phase Gate
Decision Tree Analysis
Rolling Wave Planning
34. 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.
Finish-to-Finish
Project Management
Requirement
Schedule Model Analysis
35. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Optimistic Duration
Lag
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Risk Category
36. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Defect Repair
Milestone
Secondary Risk
Start-to-Start
37. 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
Earned Value
Forward Pass
Procurement Management Plan
38. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Late Finish Date
Finish-to-Start
Procurement Management Plan
Pessimistic Duration
39. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Critical Path Method
Quality Management Plan
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Total Float
40. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed or extended from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.
Progressive Elaboration
Decision Tree Analysis
Change Control
Total Float
41. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Change Control
Probability and Impact Matrix
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Program
42. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Schedule Compression
Lessons Learned
Risk Mitigation
Risk Breakdown Structure
43. 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.
Program Management Office
Schedule Performance Index
Resource Leveling
Resource Breakdown Structure
44. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Cost Variance
Earned Value
Actual Cost
Predecessor Activity
45. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Risk Avoidance
Backward Pass
Percent Complete
Estimate to Complete
46. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Analogous Estimating
Finish-to-Finish
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Most Likely Duration
47. The amount of budget deficit or surplus at a given point in time - expressed as the difference between the earned value and the actual cost.
Cost Variance
Lessons Learned
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Backward Pass
48. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Performing Organization
Cost Variance
Lead
Critical Path
49. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Late Finish Date
Change Request
Cost Performance Index
Human Resource Plan
50. 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.
Finish-to-Finish
Early Start Date
Project Calendar
To-Complete Performance Index