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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Predecessor Activity
Planned Value
Percent Complete
Bottom-up Estimating
2. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Portfolio
Risk Register
Late Finish Date
Critical Chain Method
3. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Data Date
Communication Management Plan
Planned Value
Logical Relationship
4. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Late Start Date
Critical Path Method
Schedule Management Plan
Change Request
5. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Project Management
Most Likely Duration
Milestone
Actual Cost
6. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Risk Category
Project Charter
Project Phase
Human Resource Plan
7. A critical path method technique for calculating the late start and late finish dates by working backward through the schedule model from the project end date.
Most Likely Duration
Backward Pass
Cost Variance
Schedule Model Analysis
8. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Phase Gate
Secondary Risk
Code of Accounts
Constraint
9. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Program
Decision Tree Analysis
Planned Value
Critical Chain Method
10. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Start-to-Finish
Percent Complete
Decomposition
Project Calendar
11. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Project Manager
Project Scope
Portfolio Balancing
Percent Complete
12. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Communication Management Plan
Schedule Management Plan
Start-to-Start
Requirements Traceability Matrix
13. 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
Path Convergence
Risk Avoidance
Bottom-up Estimating
14. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Project Schedule
WBS Dictionary
Risk Breakdown Structure
S-Curve Analysis
15. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Decomposition
Sponsor
Risk Transference
Change Control Board
16. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Schedule Variance
Portfolio
Risk Register
Most Likely Duration
17. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Project Management
Cost Management Plan
Estimate at Completion
S-Curve Analysis
18. The approved version of a schedule model that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.
Early Finish Date
Schedule Baseline
Change Request
Level of Effort
19. 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.
Threat
Critical Path
WBS Dictionary
Precedence Diagramming Method
20. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Project Management Office
WBS Dictionary
Schedule Model
Estimate to Complete
21. 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.
Risk Transference
Late Finish Date
Change Request
Summary Activity
22. A group of potential causes of risk.
Cost Variance
Risk Category
Finish-to-Start
Portfolio Management
23. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Project Manager
Change Control Board
Estimate at Completion
Crashing
24. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
To-Complete Performance Index
Decomposition
Procurement Management Plan
25. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Start-to-Finish
Lag
Rolling Wave Planning
Threat
26. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Path Convergence
Control Account
Level of Effort
Three-Point Estimate
27. 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
Lessons Learned
Resource Leveling
Risk
28. 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.
Program Management
Total Float
Probability and Impact Matrix
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
29. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
WBS Dictionary
Schedule Model Analysis
Parametric Estimating
Schedule Model
30. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Activity
Scope Creep
Fast Tracking
Corrective Action
31. 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.
Cost Variance
Activity
Successor Activity
Progressive Elaboration
32. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Earned Value
Variance Analysis
Quality Management Plan
Project Scope Statement
33. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Cost Variance
Discrete Effort
Start-to-Finish
34. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Cost Management Plan
Project Manager
Late Start Date
Sponsor
35. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Discrete Effort
Communication Management Plan
Change Request
Product Life Cycle
36. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Risk Avoidance
Program
Path Divergence
37. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Opportunity
Variance Analysis
Finish-to-Finish
Rolling Wave Planning
38. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Schedule Variance
Crashing
Lead
Human Resource Plan
39. 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
Opportunity
Bottom-up Estimating
Gantt Chart
40. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Predecessor Activity
Threat
WBS Dictionary
Finish-to-Start
41. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Effort
Project Schedule
Budget at Completion
42. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Path Divergence
Critical Path Method
Schedule Variance
Bottom-up Estimating
43. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Estimate to Complete
Risk Avoidance
Decision Tree Analysis
Risk Acceptance
44. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Logical Relationship
Cost Performance Index
Probability and Impact Matrix
Level of Effort
45. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Precedence Diagramming Method
S-Curve Analysis
Product Life Cycle
Organizational Process Assets
46. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Threat
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Actual Cost
Backward Pass
47. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Schedule Compression
Code of Accounts
Requirements Management Plan
Budget at Completion
48. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Project Schedule
Organizational Process Assets
Critical Path
Resource Leveling
49. 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
Risk
WBS Dictionary
Earned Value Management
50. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Summary Activity
Parametric Estimating
Project Management Plan
Cost Performance Index