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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Deliverable
Stakeholder
Earned Value Management
Project
2. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Program Management Office
Variance at Completion
Change Control System
Parametric Estimating
3. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Early Start Date
Threat
Risk
Program Management
4. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Effort
Late Start Date
Critical Chain Method
Deliverable
5. 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.
Actual Cost
Critical Chain Method
Late Finish Date
Fast Tracking
6. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Program Management Office
Product Life Cycle
Opportunity
Deliverable
7. 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.
Optimistic Duration
Schedule Compression
Procurement Management Plan
To-Complete Performance Index
8. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Preventive Action
Risk Transference
Change Control System
Risk Mitigation
9. 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.
Free Float
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Most Likely Duration
Start-to-Finish
10. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Sponsor
Late Start Date
Successor Activity
Risk Register
11. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Corrective Action
Schedule Compression
Probability and Impact Matrix
Trigger Condition
12. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Most Likely Duration
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Assumption
Path Divergence
13. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Portfolio Management
Data Date
Risk Management Plan
14. 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.
Estimate to Complete
Control Account
Project Management
Scope Baseline
15. A group of potential causes of risk.
Schedule Variance
Risk Category
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Risk
16. 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.
Secondary Risk
Scope Management Plan
Resource Leveling
Estimate to Complete
17. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Lessons Learned
Enterprise Environmental Factors
To-Complete Performance Index
Sponsor
18. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Successor Activity
Project Phase
Scope Management Plan
Summary Activity
19. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Portfolio Balancing
Control Account
Total Float
To-Complete Performance Index
20. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Level of Effort
Sponsor
Portfolio
Scope Baseline
21. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Cost Performance Index
Budget at Completion
Risk Mitigation
Corrective Action
22. A method used to estimate the minimum project duration and determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on the logical network paths within the schedule model.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Assumption
Apportioned Effort
Critical Path Method
23. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Decision Tree Analysis
Threat
Parametric Estimating
Schedule Management Plan
24. 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.
Project
Backward Pass
Project Management Office
Milestone
25. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
S-Curve Analysis
Schedule Variance
Schedule Model
Risk Management Plan
26. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Schedule Performance Index
Estimate to Complete
Earned Value
Path Convergence
27. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Opportunity
Critical Path Method
Backward Pass
Project
28. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Assumption
Portfolio Management
Control Account
29. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Project Manager
Defect Repair
Communication Management Plan
Deliverable
30. 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.
Fast Tracking
Pessimistic Duration
Progressive Elaboration
Change Control
31. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Change Control Board
Risk Register
Sponsor
Portfolio
32. A group of related projects - subprograms and program activities that are managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually.
Risk Category
Lag
Program
Program Management
33. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Human Resource Plan
Procurement Management Plan
Constraint
Portfolio Management
34. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Late Start Date
Lag
Risk Acceptance
Effort
35. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Threat
Successor Activity
Risk Transference
Secondary Risk
36. 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.
Constraint
Critical Chain Method
Effort
Early Start Date
37. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Preventive Action
Start-to-Start
Risk Transference
Secondary Risk
38. 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.
Rolling Wave Planning
Precedence Diagramming Method
Risk Avoidance
Schedule Baseline
39. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Crashing
Analogous Estimating
Schedule Compression
Discrete Effort
40. 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.
Project Charter
Precedence Diagramming Method
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Corrective Action
41. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Data Date
Decision Tree Analysis
Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Management Plan
42. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Scope Creep
Budget at Completion
Lag
Requirements Management Plan
43. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Program
Project Management Plan
Risk Avoidance
Constraint
44. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Data Date
Optimistic Duration
Stakeholder
Predecessor Activity
45. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Phase Gate
Portfolio
Performing Organization
Project Management Office
46. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Path Divergence
Lessons Learned
Lead
Project Charter
47. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Threat
Finish-to-Finish
Scope Management Plan
Pessimistic Duration
48. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Risk Transference
Summary Activity
Change Request
Risk Register
49. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Acceptance Criteria
Communication Management Plan
Total Float
Variance at Completion
50. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Decomposition
Performing Organization
Schedule Compression
Planned Value