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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Decomposition
Requirement
2. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Quality Management Plan
Decomposition
Baseline
Fast Tracking
3. 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.
Acceptance Criteria
Change Control System
Late Finish Date
WBS Dictionary
4. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Opportunity
Trigger Condition
Predecessor Activity
Corrective Action
5. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Program
Project Management Office
Risk Register
Project Phase
6. 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
Cost Management Plan
Lessons Learned
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Analogous Estimating
7. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Product Life Cycle
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Bottom-up Estimating
Control Account
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.
Schedule Model Analysis
Project Scope Statement
Procurement Management Plan
Change Control System
9. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Risk Acceptance
Sponsor
Estimate to Complete
Constraint
10. 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.
Project Charter
Performing Organization
Human Resource Plan
Discrete Effort
11. A group of potential causes of risk.
Procurement Management Plan
Quality Management Plan
Schedule Management Plan
Risk Category
12. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Progressive Elaboration
Crashing
Milestone
Predecessor Activity
13. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Lessons Learned
Variance Analysis
Cost Variance
Project Calendar
14. A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Defect Repair
Secondary Risk
Discrete Effort
Project Charter
15. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Crashing
Project Scope
Schedule Performance Index
Late Start Date
16. 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.
Sponsor
Free Float
Resource Leveling
Schedule Model Analysis
17. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Analogous Estimating
Fast Tracking
Earned Value
Lead
18. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Risk Avoidance
To-Complete Performance Index
Earned Value Management
Change Control Board
19. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Cost Performance Index
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Path Divergence
Quality Management Plan
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.
Rolling Wave Planning
Risk Category
Secondary Risk
Decomposition
21. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Parametric Estimating
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Communication Management Plan
Requirements Management Plan
22. 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.
Risk
Total Float
Backward Pass
Fast Tracking
23. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Variance Analysis
Quality Management Plan
Budget at Completion
Organizational Process Assets
24. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Project Life Cycle
Project Manager
Schedule Management Plan
Critical Path Method
25. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Estimate at Completion
Most Likely Duration
Project Management Plan
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
26. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Schedule Compression
Earned Value Management
Budget at Completion
Variance Analysis
27. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Actual Cost
Path Divergence
Secondary Risk
Probability and Impact Matrix
28. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Code of Accounts
Effort
Estimate to Complete
Project Scope Statement
29. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Project Management Plan
Free Float
Quality Management Plan
Earned Value Management
30. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Risk Category
Portfolio Balancing
Critical Path
Lessons Learned
31. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Opportunity
Phase Gate
Human Resource Plan
S-Curve Analysis
32. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Critical Path
Critical Chain Method
Portfolio
Budget at Completion
33. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Optimistic Duration
Variance at Completion
Project Management Plan
Risk Register
34. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Project Manager
Human Resource Plan
Late Finish Date
Optimistic Duration
35. 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
Gantt Chart
Portfolio Management
Apportioned Effort
Resource Leveling
36. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Start-to-Start
Earned Value Management
Risk Management Plan
Optimistic Duration
37. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Defect Repair
Assumption
Program Management
To-Complete Performance Index
38. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Effort
Most Likely Duration
Risk Register
39. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Product Life Cycle
Apportioned Effort
Schedule Variance
Cost Management Plan
40. 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.
Progressive Elaboration
Path Divergence
Estimate to Complete
Data Date
41. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Code of Accounts
Early Start Date
Staffing Management Plan
Requirement
42. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Path Divergence
Three-Point Estimate
Most Likely Duration
Preventive Action
43. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Project Schedule
Discrete Effort
Phase Gate
Preventive Action
44. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Project Manager
Trigger Condition
Scope Baseline
Phase Gate
45. 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.
Decomposition
Communication Management Plan
Threat
Scope Baseline
46. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Quality Management Plan
Decision Tree Analysis
Risk Category
Trigger Condition
47. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Variance Analysis
Assumption
Defect Repair
Risk Mitigation
48. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Percent Complete
Planned Value
Effort
49. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Project Manager
Risk Category
Path Divergence
Product Life Cycle
50. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Schedule Performance Index
Communication Management Plan
Resource Breakdown Structure
Path Convergence