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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Project Scope
Risk Management Plan
Probability and Impact Matrix
2. 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.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Procurement Management Plan
Corrective Action
Change Request
3. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Planned Value
Analogous Estimating
Late Start Date
Estimate at Completion
4. A bar chart of schedule information where activities are listed on the vertical axis - dates are shown on the horizontal axis - and activity durations are shown as horizontal bars placed according to start and finish dates.
Constraint
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Acceptance Criteria
Gantt Chart
5. 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.
Critical Chain Method
Backward Pass
Performing Organization
Precedence Diagramming Method
6. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Program
Schedule Variance
Budget at Completion
Critical Path
7. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Pessimistic Duration
Gantt Chart
Program Management
Estimate at Completion
8. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Variance at Completion
Start-to-Finish
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Project Phase
9. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Product Life Cycle
Schedule Baseline
Acceptance Criteria
10. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Change Control System
Logical Relationship
Control Account
Critical Chain Method
11. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Scope Creep
Human Resource Plan
Pessimistic Duration
Project Life Cycle
12. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio
Finish-to-Start
Phase Gate
Three-Point Estimate
13. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Planned Value
Crashing
Critical Path Activity
Path Convergence
14. 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.
Project Scope Statement
Schedule Model
Parametric Estimating
Project Calendar
15. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Risk Transference
Estimate to Complete
Performing Organization
Scope Baseline
16. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Schedule Model Analysis
Threat
Gantt Chart
Project Schedule Network Diagram
17. 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.)
Risk Management Plan
Risk Mitigation
Project Scope
Level of Effort
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.
Schedule Baseline
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Risk Acceptance
Project
19. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Risk Management Plan
Apportioned Effort
Actual Cost
Resource Calendar
20. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Apportioned Effort
Program Management Office
Precedence Diagramming Method
Crashing
21. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Predecessor Activity
Schedule Variance
Quality Management Plan
Successor Activity
22. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Resource Calendar
Project Scope
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Scope Creep
23. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Control Account
Crashing
Percent Complete
Risk Acceptance
24. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Trigger Condition
Requirement
Change Control Board
Resource Calendar
25. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Phase Gate
What-If Sce
Communication Management Plan
Project Calendar
26. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Staffing Management Plan
Resource Breakdown Structure
Code of Accounts
Project Management Plan
27. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Schedule Model Analysis
Milestone
Assumption
Earned Value
28. 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
Probability and Impact Matrix
Schedule Variance
Pessimistic Duration
29. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Lag
Project
Project Manager
Project Calendar
30. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Portfolio Management
Risk Category
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Late Finish Date
31. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Communication Management Plan
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Critical Chain Method
Percent Complete
32. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Scope Management Plan
Analogous Estimating
Logical Relationship
Project Life Cycle
33. 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.
Portfolio
Program Management
Critical Chain Method
Communication Management Plan
34. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Sponsor
Earned Value
Constraint
Critical Path Activity
35. 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.
Early Start Date
Project Management Office
Deliverable
Organizational Process Assets
36. 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.
Organizational Process Assets
Sponsor
Product Life Cycle
Late Finish Date
37. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Preventive Action
Variance at Completion
Critical Path Activity
Project Management Office
38. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Finish-to-Finish
Project Scope
Resource Breakdown Structure
Free Float
39. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Assumption
S-Curve Analysis
Code of Accounts
Secondary Risk
40. 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.
Lead
Lessons Learned
Forward Pass
Secondary Risk
41. An activity that can be planned and measured and that yields a specific output. (Note: Discrete effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance.)
Discrete Effort
Decomposition
Late Finish Date
Program Management
42. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Requirements Management Plan
Decision Tree Analysis
Schedule Performance Index
Planned Value
43. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Code of Accounts
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Project Life Cycle
44. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Actual Cost
Cost Management Plan
Project Scope
Predecessor Activity
45. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Deliverable
Start-to-Finish
Defect Repair
Requirements Management Plan
46. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Risk Transference
Project Charter
Finish-to-Start
Apportioned Effort
47. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Risk
Late Finish Date
Change Control System
48. 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.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Schedule
Finish-to-Finish
Early Start Date
49. 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.
Optimistic Duration
Control Account
Project Charter
Corrective Action
50. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Effort
Precedence Diagramming Method
Project Schedule
Project Scope