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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. 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.
Resource Leveling
Three-Point Estimate
Project Management Plan
To-Complete Performance Index
2. 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.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Program Management
Project Management
Baseline
3. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Rolling Wave Planning
Performing Organization
Risk Acceptance
Project Life Cycle
4. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Analogous Estimating
Project Phase
Summary Activity
Project Management Office
5. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Project Management Office
Probability and Impact Matrix
Program
Free Float
6. An activity where effort is allotted proportionately across certain discrete efforts and not divisible into discrete efforts. (Note: Apportioned effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance
Data Date
Apportioned Effort
Risk Avoidance
Effort
7. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Product Life Cycle
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Opportunity
Risk Acceptance
8. 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.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Baseline
Program
9. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Summary Activity
Parametric Estimating
Forward Pass
Estimate at Completion
10. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Effort
Schedule Model
Project Management
11. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Project Phase
Pessimistic Duration
Schedule Variance
Activity
12. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Level of Effort
Schedule Variance
Project Management Office
Progressive Elaboration
13. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Risk Avoidance
Finish-to-Finish
Trigger Condition
Analogous Estimating
14. 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.
Stakeholder
Project Schedule
Predecessor Activity
Three-Point Estimate
15. 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
S-Curve Analysis
Analogous Estimating
Stakeholder
16. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Budget at Completion
Path Convergence
Project Schedule
17. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Phase Gate
Estimate to Complete
Assumption
Organizational Project Management Maturity
18. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Cost Performance Index
Scope Creep
Actual Cost
19. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Discrete Effort
Sponsor
Start-to-Finish
Critical Path
20. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Baseline
Risk Transference
Critical Path Method
Performing Organization
21. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Opportunity
Schedule Performance Index
Analogous Estimating
Project Scope
22. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Discrete Effort
Data Date
Most Likely Duration
Activity
23. 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.
Portfolio Management
Progressive Elaboration
Three-Point Estimate
Early Finish Date
24. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Parametric Estimating
Lessons Learned
Change Control
Preventive Action
25. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Start-to-Finish
Start-to-Start
Logical Relationship
Program
26. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Analogous Estimating
Change Control System
Resource Leveling
Change Control
27. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Decomposition
Pessimistic Duration
Activity
Critical Path Activity
28. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Critical Path Activity
Logical Relationship
Risk Breakdown Structure
Budget at Completion
29. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Apportioned Effort
Total Float
Schedule Compression
30. 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.
Logical Relationship
Effort
Phase Gate
Early Start Date
31. 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.
Defect Repair
Planned Value
Variance Analysis
Cost Variance
32. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Scope Creep
Secondary Risk
Apportioned Effort
Stakeholder
33. 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.
Planned Value
Schedule Baseline
Scope Creep
Crashing
34. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Risk Management Plan
Change Control Board
Defect Repair
Variance at Completion
35. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Project Scope
WBS Dictionary
Project Management Office
Risk Category
36. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Three-Point Estimate
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Planned Value
Schedule Variance
37. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Risk Management Plan
Earned Value Management
Risk Mitigation
Project Scope
38. The knowledge gained during a project which shows how project events were addressed or should be addressed in the future for the purpose of improving future performance
S-Curve Analysis
Organizational Process Assets
Schedule Model Analysis
Lessons Learned
39. 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.
Requirement
Earned Value Management
Change Control
Percent Complete
40. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Phase
Organizational Process Assets
Threat
41. 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.
Lead
Lessons Learned
Fast Tracking
Cost Variance
42. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Risk Category
Planned Value
Finish-to-Start
Risk Management Plan
43. 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.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Late Start Date
Program Management Office
Forward Pass
44. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Gantt Chart
Crashing
Finish-to-Start
Procurement Management Plan
45. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Cost Performance Index
Performing Organization
Three-Point Estimate
Risk Avoidance
46. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Earned Value Management
Finish-to-Finish
Critical Path
S-Curve Analysis
47. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Planned Value
Crashing
Late Finish Date
Corrective Action
48. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Risk Breakdown Structure
Opportunity
Critical Path Method
49. 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.
Early Finish Date
Corrective Action
Path Convergence
Rolling Wave Planning
50. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Schedule Management Plan
Resource Calendar
Change Control Board
Organizational Breakdown Structure