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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Start-to-Finish
Risk Transference
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Start-to-Start
2. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Portfolio Balancing
Risk Management Plan
Resource Leveling
Program Management Office
3. 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.
Early Start Date
Program
Phase Gate
Forward Pass
4. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Staffing Management Plan
Defect Repair
Activity
Corrective Action
5. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Project Schedule
Risk Avoidance
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Staffing Management Plan
6. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Precedence Diagramming Method
Estimate at Completion
Constraint
7. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Cost Management Plan
Estimate at Completion
Assumption
Finish-to-Finish
8. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Opportunity
Program Management
Critical Path
Risk Mitigation
9. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Schedule Model Analysis
Cost Management Plan
Risk
Forward Pass
10. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Project Charter
Budget at Completion
Decision Tree Analysis
Risk
11. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Total Float
Schedule Performance Index
Scope Management Plan
Estimate at Completion
12. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Early Finish Date
Project Life Cycle
Defect Repair
Crashing
13. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Total Float
Finish-to-Start
Effort
Project Manager
14. 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.
Late Start Date
Successor Activity
Deliverable
Schedule Model Analysis
15. 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
Schedule Baseline
Resource Breakdown Structure
Project Scope
16. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Discrete Effort
Schedule Performance Index
Portfolio Balancing
Summary Activity
17. 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.
Backward Pass
Optimistic Duration
Code of Accounts
Cost Management Plan
18. 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
Program
Staffing Management Plan
Critical Path
19. 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
Estimate at Completion
Resource Breakdown Structure
Constraint
20. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Preventive Action
S-Curve Analysis
Estimate to Complete
Trigger Condition
21. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Change Control Board
Predecessor Activity
Quality Management Plan
Resource Calendar
22. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Early Start Date
Schedule Management Plan
Variance at Completion
Program Management
23. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Schedule Variance
Predecessor Activity
Program Management Office
Quality Management Plan
24. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Three-Point Estimate
Sponsor
Earned Value Management
Trigger Condition
25. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Gantt Chart
Analogous Estimating
Corrective Action
Project Life Cycle
26. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Finish-to-Start
Schedule Compression
Risk Category
Product Life Cycle
27. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Backward Pass
Project Phase
Estimate to Complete
Project Life Cycle
28. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Summary Activity
Project Phase
Early Finish Date
Path Divergence
29. 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.
Scope Baseline
Gantt Chart
Optimistic Duration
Critical Path Activity
30. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Bottom-up Estimating
Code of Accounts
Resource Calendar
Fast Tracking
31. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Change Control System
Apportioned Effort
Phase Gate
Risk Register
32. 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.
Early Start Date
Scope Baseline
Cost Variance
Budget at Completion
33. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Performing Organization
Successor Activity
Activity
Critical Path Method
34. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Successor Activity
Risk Breakdown Structure
Resource Leveling
Parametric Estimating
35. 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.
Early Start Date
Portfolio Management
Schedule Variance
Stakeholder
36. 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.)
Probability and Impact Matrix
Level of Effort
Decision Tree Analysis
Late Finish Date
37. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Decomposition
Progressive Elaboration
Project Management Office
Constraint
38. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Variance Analysis
Defect Repair
Critical Path Activity
Program
39. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Precedence Diagramming Method
What-If Sce
Estimate to Complete
Phase Gate
40. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Requirements Management Plan
Project Phase
Project Manager
Acceptance Criteria
41. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Late Finish Date
Lead
Scope Baseline
Staffing Management Plan
42. A condition or capability that is required to be present in a product - service - or result to satisfy a contract or other formally imposed specification.
Sponsor
Product Life Cycle
Resource Leveling
Requirement
43. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Path Divergence
Program Management
Quality Management Plan
Early Finish Date
44. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Free Float
Rolling Wave Planning
Opportunity
Critical Path Activity
45. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Project Management Office
Predecessor Activity
Project Management
Quality Management Plan
46. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Portfolio Balancing
Lessons Learned
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Organizational Project Management Maturity
47. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Parametric Estimating
Project Scope Statement
Cost Performance Index
Variance at Completion
48. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Performing Organization
Logical Relationship
Cost Management Plan
Budget at Completion
49. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Corrective Action
Change Control Board
Defect Repair
50. 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.
Risk Avoidance
Baseline
Finish-to-Finish
Risk Mitigation