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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. 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.)
Decomposition
Discrete Effort
Summary Activity
Schedule Management Plan
2. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any successor or violating a schedule constraint.
Critical Chain Method
Lessons Learned
Free Float
Activity
3. 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.
WBS Dictionary
Risk Management Plan
Deliverable
Program Management Office
4. In the critical path method - the latest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start based on the schedule network logic - the project completion date - and any schedule constraints.
Budget at Completion
Late Start Date
To-Complete Performance Index
Decision Tree Analysis
5. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Project Scope Statement
Program Management Office
Performing Organization
Logical Relationship
6. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Forward Pass
Lessons Learned
Resource Calendar
Analogous Estimating
7. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Actual Cost
Secondary Risk
Data Date
Schedule Model Analysis
8. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Resource Leveling
Lead
Analogous Estimating
Optimistic Duration
9. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Finish-to-Finish
Schedule Performance Index
Start-to-Finish
Path Convergence
10. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Risk Mitigation
Acceptance Criteria
Summary Activity
Cost Management Plan
11. 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.
Decomposition
WBS Dictionary
Baseline
Progressive Elaboration
12. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
To-Complete Performance Index
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Level of Effort
Backward Pass
13. 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.
Project Charter
Change Control
Early Start Date
Deliverable
14. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Risk Acceptance
Earned Value
Program Management
Program
15. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Optimistic Duration
Cost Performance Index
WBS Dictionary
Start-to-Start
16. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Schedule Variance
Portfolio
Critical Chain Method
Risk Avoidance
17. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Program
Project Life Cycle
Quality Management Plan
Risk Breakdown Structure
18. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Cost Variance
Risk Breakdown Structure
Progressive Elaboration
Late Start Date
19. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Deliverable
Estimate to Complete
Schedule Baseline
Change Control System
20. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Actual Cost
Code of Accounts
Late Finish Date
Start-to-Finish
21. 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
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Cost Management Plan
Variance at Completion
22. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Requirements Management Plan
Risk Transference
Schedule Performance Index
Schedule Management Plan
23. 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.
Schedule Model
Corrective Action
Portfolio Balancing
Organizational Breakdown Structure
24. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Early Start Date
Performing Organization
Project Scope
Assumption
25. 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 Management Plan
Acceptance Criteria
Schedule Variance
26. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Defect Repair
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Project
Estimate at Completion
27. 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.
Performing Organization
Pessimistic Duration
Project Management Office
Rolling Wave Planning
28. 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.
Earned Value Management
Risk Transference
Precedence Diagramming Method
Critical Path
29. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Project Manager
Human Resource Plan
Portfolio
Early Finish Date
30. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Risk Transference
Schedule Compression
Decomposition
Program Management
31. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Late Start Date
Enterprise Environmental Factors
S-Curve Analysis
Pessimistic Duration
32. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Sponsor
Gantt Chart
Earned Value
Project Phase
33. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Cost Variance
Variance at Completion
Secondary Risk
Trigger Condition
34. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Project Management
Scope Management Plan
Performing Organization
Path Convergence
35. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Program Management Office
Critical Path
Schedule Compression
Analogous Estimating
36. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Quality Management Plan
Corrective Action
Actual Cost
WBS Dictionary
37. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Project Management
Organizational Process Assets
Risk Mitigation
Program Management Office
38. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Control Account
Requirement
Estimate at Completion
Data Date
39. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Control Account
Cost Variance
Change Request
Project Management Plan
40. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
To-Complete Performance Index
Progressive Elaboration
WBS Dictionary
Constraint
41. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Resource Calendar
Code of Accounts
Schedule Model Analysis
Schedule Variance
42. A group of potential causes of risk.
Sponsor
Cost Variance
Critical Chain Method
Risk Category
43. A technique used to estimate cost or duration by applying an average of optimistic - pessimistic - and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates.
Three-Point Estimate
Critical Path
Probability and Impact Matrix
Staffing Management Plan
44. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Three-Point Estimate
Budget at Completion
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Resource Leveling
45. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Scope Creep
Earned Value
Risk Category
Schedule Model
46. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Program Management Office
Schedule Baseline
Budget at Completion
Project Calendar
47. 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
Staffing Management Plan
Requirement
Progressive Elaboration
48. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Path Convergence
Lead
Planned Value
Risk Register
49. 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.
Schedule Variance
Constraint
Backward Pass
Critical Chain Method
50. 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.
Logical Relationship
Schedule Model Analysis
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Fast Tracking