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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Project Calendar
Product Life Cycle
Risk Transference
2. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Communication Management Plan
Critical Chain Method
Forward Pass
Corrective Action
3. A method used to estimate the minimum project duration and determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on the logical network paths within the schedule model.
Communication Management Plan
Probability and Impact Matrix
Planned Value
Critical Path Method
4. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio
Cost Performance Index
Requirement
Successor Activity
5. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Earned Value Management
Decomposition
Project Phase
Effort
6. An activity that does not produce definitive end products and is measured by the passage of time. (Note: Level of effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance.)
Level of Effort
Deliverable
Cost Management Plan
Program
7. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Risk Mitigation
Critical Path
Schedule Variance
Summary Activity
8. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Scope Baseline
Trigger Condition
Risk
Variance at Completion
9. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Pessimistic Duration
Risk Management Plan
Resource Breakdown Structure
Three-Point Estimate
10. 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.
Change Request
Stakeholder
Discrete Effort
Schedule Compression
11. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Path Convergence
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Assumption
Cost Management Plan
12. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Data Date
Acceptance Criteria
Schedule Variance
Staffing Management Plan
13. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Resource Leveling
Discrete Effort
What-If Sce
Start-to-Finish
14. 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
Backward Pass
Risk Transference
Portfolio Management
15. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Start-to-Finish
Optimistic Duration
Performing Organization
Schedule Management Plan
16. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Lag
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Gantt Chart
17. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Acceptance Criteria
Project Charter
Successor Activity
S-Curve Analysis
18. A measure of the cost performance that is required to be achieved with the remaining resources in order to meet a specified management goal - expressed as the ratio of the cost to finish the outstanding work to the remaining budget.
Threat
Requirement
To-Complete Performance Index
Successor Activity
19. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Assumption
Product Life Cycle
Staffing Management Plan
Milestone
20. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Start-to-Finish
Cost Performance Index
Path Divergence
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
21. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Risk Register
Control Account
Project Scope Statement
Organizational Project Management Maturity
22. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Earned Value Management
Requirement
Forward Pass
Risk Acceptance
23. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Project Management Plan
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Decision Tree Analysis
Crashing
24. 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.
Scope Baseline
Risk Transference
Discrete Effort
Successor Activity
25. 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
Earned Value
Scope Baseline
S-Curve Analysis
26. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Actual Cost
Finish-to-Start
S-Curve Analysis
Three-Point Estimate
27. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Early Start Date
Parametric Estimating
Gantt Chart
Risk Mitigation
28. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Risk
Forward Pass
Planned Value
Decomposition
29. 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.
Forward Pass
Program Management Office
Earned Value
Procurement Management Plan
30. 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.
Planned Value
Lessons Learned
Deliverable
Risk Register
31. 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
Product Life Cycle
Quality Management Plan
Finish-to-Finish
32. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Project Scope
Risk Transference
Path Convergence
Requirements Management Plan
33. 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.
Schedule Model Analysis
WBS Dictionary
Earned Value
Total Float
34. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Project Scope Statement
Critical Path Method
Risk Management Plan
Project Phase
35. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Free Float
Estimate to Complete
Assumption
36. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Sponsor
Schedule Model
Program Management Office
Code of Accounts
37. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Assumption
Earned Value
Cost Management Plan
Code of Accounts
38. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Opportunity
Risk Mitigation
Scope Management Plan
Critical Chain Method
39. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to a program to meet the program requirements and to obtain benefits and control not available by managing projects individually.
Program Management
Start-to-Finish
Scope Management Plan
Finish-to-Start
40. 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
Data Date
Risk Category
Risk Acceptance
41. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Secondary Risk
Program
Level of Effort
Risk Avoidance
42. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
What-If Sce
Corrective Action
Performing Organization
Project Scope
43. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Apportioned Effort
Scope Management Plan
Estimate at Completion
Product Life Cycle
44. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Start-to-Finish
Phase Gate
Organizational Project Management Maturity
To-Complete Performance Index
45. 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.
Resource Leveling
Optimistic Duration
Secondary Risk
Path Divergence
46. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Project Schedule
Finish-to-Start
Portfolio Management
WBS Dictionary
47. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
S-Curve Analysis
Risk Acceptance
Summary Activity
Portfolio
48. A review at the end of a phase in which a decision is made to continue to the next phase - to continue with modification - or to end a project or program.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Earned Value
Phase Gate
Fast Tracking
49. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Constraint
Schedule Variance
Data Date
Path Divergence
50. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Phase Gate
Finish-to-Start
Risk Category
Performing Organization