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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 requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Schedule Variance
Constraint
Requirements Management Plan
Decision Tree Analysis
2. A representation of the plan for executing the project's activities including durations - dependencies and other planning information - used to produce a project schedule along with other scheduling artifacts.
Schedule Management Plan
Lessons Learned
Schedule Model
Estimate to Complete
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.
Trigger Condition
Fast Tracking
Baseline
Secondary Risk
4. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio
Project Management Plan
Schedule Management Plan
Lead
5. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Risk Transference
Product Life Cycle
Quality Management Plan
S-Curve Analysis
6. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Program
Risk Breakdown Structure
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Pessimistic Duration
7. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Schedule Management Plan
Parametric Estimating
Risk Register
8. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Gantt Chart
Preventive Action
Risk Breakdown Structure
Opportunity
9. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Estimate to Complete
Predecessor Activity
Acceptance Criteria
WBS Dictionary
10. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Critical Path Activity
Summary Activity
Gantt Chart
Portfolio Management
11. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Risk Mitigation
Risk Breakdown Structure
Project
Schedule Baseline
12. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Cost Management Plan
Risk Management Plan
Discrete Effort
Portfolio Management
13. 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
Activity
Risk Management Plan
Start-to-Start
14. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Level of Effort
Forward Pass
Start-to-Start
Project Schedule Network Diagram
15. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Cost Variance
Logical Relationship
Requirement
Trigger Condition
16. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Estimate to Complete
Fast Tracking
Preventive Action
Schedule Model Analysis
17. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Pessimistic Duration
Code of Accounts
Backward Pass
Analogous Estimating
18. 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.
Schedule Model Analysis
Constraint
Stakeholder
Cost Variance
19. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Secondary Risk
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Portfolio Balancing
Change Control System
20. 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.
Data Date
Finish-to-Finish
Rolling Wave Planning
Staffing Management Plan
21. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Schedule Model Analysis
Product Life Cycle
Planned Value
Estimate to Complete
22. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Path Divergence
Analogous Estimating
Project Management Office
Preventive Action
23. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Risk Avoidance
Critical Chain Method
Risk
24. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Earned Value Management
Risk Avoidance
Resource Leveling
Project
25. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Schedule Model
Decomposition
Schedule Model Analysis
Schedule Performance Index
26. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Estimate at Completion
Cost Variance
Risk Breakdown Structure
Schedule Variance
27. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Activity
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Lag
Project Life Cycle
28. 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.
Decision Tree Analysis
Late Finish Date
Apportioned Effort
Milestone
29. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Earned Value
Finish-to-Finish
Schedule Baseline
Lessons Learned
30. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Critical Path
Sponsor
Program
Risk Register
31. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Project Charter
Organizational Breakdown Structure
S-Curve Analysis
Resource Breakdown Structure
32. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Trigger Condition
Project Life Cycle
Estimate at Completion
Logical Relationship
33. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Constraint
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Gantt Chart
Parametric Estimating
34. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Schedule Baseline
Opportunity
Late Start Date
Acceptance Criteria
35. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Lag
S-Curve Analysis
36. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Activity
Constraint
Estimate at Completion
Crashing
37. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Late Finish Date
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Assumption
Resource Breakdown Structure
38. 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.
Successor Activity
Requirements Management Plan
Portfolio Management
Late Start Date
39. 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
Earned Value
Opportunity
Change Control Board
40. 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.
Change Control Board
To-Complete Performance Index
Risk Transference
Early Start Date
41. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Critical Path Activity
Effort
Corrective Action
Risk Management Plan
42. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Start-to-Finish
Total Float
WBS Dictionary
Schedule Model
43. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Lag
Schedule Compression
Path Divergence
Scope Management Plan
44. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Apportioned Effort
Variance Analysis
Level of Effort
Project Phase
45. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Program
Requirements Management Plan
Effort
Project Charter
46. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Corrective Action
Late Start Date
Crashing
Actual Cost
47. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Preventive Action
Finish-to-Finish
Critical Path Activity
Cost Variance
48. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Program
Change Request
Project Calendar
Procurement Management Plan
49. The approved version of a scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) - and its associated WBS dictionary - which can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison.
Activity
Procurement Management Plan
Scope Baseline
Risk Breakdown Structure
50. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Parametric Estimating
Budget at Completion
Product Life Cycle
Code of Accounts