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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Bottom-up Estimating
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Project Manager
Project Phase
2. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Budget at Completion
Finish-to-Start
Project Charter
Trigger Condition
3. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Apportioned Effort
Schedule Compression
Decomposition
Critical Path Activity
4. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Optimistic Duration
Scope Management Plan
Portfolio
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.
Performing Organization
Milestone
Risk Transference
Product Life Cycle
6. 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.
Rolling Wave Planning
Critical Chain Method
Cost Variance
Effort
7. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Optimistic Duration
Change Control Board
Variance Analysis
Requirements Traceability Matrix
8. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Pessimistic Duration
Lead
Critical Chain Method
Cost Management Plan
9. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Critical Path Method
Resource Calendar
Portfolio
Project Management Plan
10. 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.
Risk Register
Procurement Management Plan
Discrete Effort
Schedule Performance Index
11. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Start-to-Start
Code of Accounts
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Project Schedule Network Diagram
12. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Change Control System
Risk Management Plan
Schedule Variance
Lag
13. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Progressive Elaboration
Path Convergence
Cost Performance Index
Successor Activity
14. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Portfolio Balancing
Critical Chain Method
Forward Pass
15. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Schedule Variance
What-If Sce
Threat
Change Control
16. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Crashing
Procurement Management Plan
Finish-to-Finish
Project Manager
17. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Opportunity
Scope Management Plan
Risk Transference
Critical Path Method
18. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Risk Management Plan
Human Resource Plan
Path Convergence
Project Calendar
19. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Percent Complete
Variance at Completion
Project Calendar
Trigger Condition
20. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Level of Effort
Path Convergence
Estimate to Complete
Cost Management Plan
21. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Earned Value Management
Portfolio Balancing
Start-to-Start
Crashing
22. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Program
Requirement
Effort
Project Management Plan
23. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Risk Transference
Estimate to Complete
Human Resource Plan
Resource Calendar
24. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Estimate to Complete
Risk Breakdown Structure
Portfolio Management
Critical Chain Method
25. 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.
Parametric Estimating
Start-to-Start
Total Float
Estimate to Complete
26. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Finish-to-Finish
Budget at Completion
S-Curve Analysis
Risk Breakdown Structure
27. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Critical Path Activity
Change Control
Project Charter
Organizational Process Assets
28. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Optimistic Duration
Data Date
Scope Creep
Requirements Traceability Matrix
29. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Apportioned Effort
Resource Breakdown Structure
What-If Sce
S-Curve Analysis
30. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Schedule Model Analysis
Project Schedule
Logical Relationship
Schedule Variance
31. 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
Project Life Cycle
Project Management Office
Assumption
32. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Schedule Management Plan
Late Finish Date
Trigger Condition
Project Life Cycle
33. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Decision Tree Analysis
Portfolio
Cost Performance Index
Backward Pass
34. 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.
Path Divergence
Project Manager
Progressive Elaboration
To-Complete Performance Index
35. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Control Account
Variance at Completion
Analogous Estimating
Late Start Date
36. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Schedule Model Analysis
Risk Avoidance
Project Manager
Risk Management Plan
37. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Activity
Portfolio Balancing
Three-Point Estimate
Cost Variance
38. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Analogous Estimating
Program Management
Project Life Cycle
Stakeholder
39. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Data Date
Cost Management Plan
Lag
Three-Point Estimate
40. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Project Life Cycle
Requirement
Secondary Risk
Risk
41. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Project
Fast Tracking
Three-Point Estimate
Progressive Elaboration
42. 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.
Risk
Effort
Start-to-Finish
Scope Baseline
43. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Activity
Change Control
Project Scope Statement
Communication Management Plan
44. 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.
Bottom-up Estimating
Baseline
Resource Breakdown Structure
Portfolio Balancing
45. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio
Gantt Chart
Resource Leveling
Portfolio Management
46. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Variance at Completion
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Late Start Date
Level of Effort
47. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Product Life Cycle
Change Request
Project Scope
Threat
48. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Performing Organization
Project Phase
To-Complete Performance Index
Acceptance Criteria
49. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Logical Relationship
Schedule Baseline
Schedule Performance Index
Resource Leveling
50. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Scope Creep
Risk Management Plan
Gantt Chart
Phase Gate