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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Backward Pass
Schedule Variance
Trigger Condition
Cost Performance Index
2. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Defect Repair
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Gantt Chart
Project Calendar
3. 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.
Human Resource Plan
Path Divergence
Trigger Condition
Defect Repair
4. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Predecessor Activity
Trigger Condition
Critical Chain Method
Resource Breakdown Structure
5. 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
Resource Breakdown Structure
Scope Management Plan
Actual Cost
Apportioned Effort
6. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Apportioned Effort
Risk Transference
Secondary Risk
Project Management
7. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Successor Activity
Schedule Performance Index
Cost Management Plan
8. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Organizational Process Assets
Lessons Learned
Probability and Impact Matrix
9. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Change Control System
Program Management
Predecessor Activity
Gantt Chart
10. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Baseline
Defect Repair
Acceptance Criteria
Decomposition
11. 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.
Early Start Date
Project Scope Statement
Performing Organization
Project Charter
12. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Start-to-Start
Risk Mitigation
Precedence Diagramming Method
Project Management Plan
13. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Finish-to-Start
Project Scope Statement
Requirement
Project Schedule Network Diagram
14. 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.
Performing Organization
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Summary Activity
Program
15. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Preventive Action
Variance Analysis
Project Management
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
16. 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 Management Plan
Cost Variance
Start-to-Finish
Three-Point Estimate
17. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Finish-to-Finish
Variance at Completion
Project Phase
Variance Analysis
18. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Risk
Risk Register
Opportunity
WBS Dictionary
19. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Lead
Risk Acceptance
Planned Value
20. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Data Date
Cost Performance Index
Scope Baseline
Stakeholder
21. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Estimate at Completion
Procurement Management Plan
Earned Value
Late Finish Date
22. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Assumption
Effort
Path Divergence
Opportunity
23. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Finish-to-Finish
Actual Cost
Path Divergence
Critical Path Method
24. 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.
Start-to-Start
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Stakeholder
25. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Planned Value
Schedule Model
Late Finish Date
Risk Mitigation
26. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Pessimistic Duration
Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Schedule
27. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio Management
Change Control Board
Quality Management Plan
Critical Path Method
28. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio
Apportioned Effort
Risk Mitigation
Successor Activity
29. 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 Model
Risk Mitigation
Forward Pass
Scope Creep
30. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Acceptance Criteria
Change Control System
Planned Value
Level of Effort
31. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Schedule Compression
Risk Management Plan
Human Resource Plan
Change Control
32. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Risk Acceptance
Program
Project Management Office
Schedule Performance Index
33. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Assumption
Project Phase
Parametric Estimating
Project Schedule Network Diagram
34. 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
Sponsor
Change Control
Activity
35. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Optimistic Duration
Secondary Risk
Project Management Office
Lessons Learned
36. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Project Calendar
Secondary Risk
Project Schedule
Program
37. 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
Program Management Office
Parametric Estimating
Requirements Traceability Matrix
38. 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.
Scope Management Plan
Precedence Diagramming Method
Secondary Risk
Change Control Board
39. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Decision Tree Analysis
Portfolio Balancing
Schedule Compression
Staffing Management Plan
40. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Fast Tracking
Communication Management Plan
Parametric Estimating
Schedule Management Plan
41. 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
Lessons Learned
Parametric Estimating
Program Management Office
42. 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 Plan
Organizational Process Assets
Deliverable
Organizational Project Management Maturity
43. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Phase Gate
Budget at Completion
Estimate to Complete
Estimate at Completion
44. The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information and more accurate estimates become available.
Lessons Learned
Progressive Elaboration
Project Management Plan
Staffing Management Plan
45. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Early Start Date
Risk
Project Schedule
Lead
46. 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.
Late Start Date
Project Life Cycle
Resource Calendar
Probability and Impact Matrix
47. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Cost Management Plan
Analogous Estimating
Project Calendar
Risk Acceptance
48. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Schedule Performance Index
Apportioned Effort
Change Request
Three-Point Estimate
49. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Lag
Parametric Estimating
Scope Baseline
50. 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.
Defect Repair
Project Scope
Procurement Management Plan
Change Control Board