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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Trigger Condition
Control Account
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Effort
2. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Portfolio
Secondary Risk
Start-to-Finish
Start-to-Start
3. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Change Control System
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Data Date
Finish-to-Finish
4. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Trigger Condition
Product Life Cycle
Activity
Risk Acceptance
5. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Lag
To-Complete Performance Index
Decision Tree Analysis
Variance at Completion
6. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Project Manager
Project Schedule
Decision Tree Analysis
Path Divergence
7. 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.
Backward Pass
Total Float
Forward Pass
Schedule Model
8. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Milestone
Program
Risk Transference
Requirements Management Plan
9. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Gantt Chart
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Defect Repair
Three-Point Estimate
10. 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.
Product Life Cycle
To-Complete Performance Index
Resource Breakdown Structure
Bottom-up Estimating
11. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Percent Complete
Discrete Effort
Estimate to Complete
Constraint
12. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Project Phase
Data Date
Project Management Plan
Rolling Wave Planning
13. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Analogous Estimating
Critical Path
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Effort
14. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Project Management
Cost Management Plan
Risk Acceptance
Late Finish Date
15. 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.
Start-to-Finish
Discrete Effort
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Baseline
16. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Free Float
Bottom-up Estimating
Lead
Risk
17. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Control Account
Project Management Office
Stakeholder
Project Schedule
18. 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.
Project
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Cost Variance
Human Resource Plan
19. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Trigger Condition
Critical Path
Schedule Variance
Schedule Compression
20. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Schedule Model
Scope Creep
Risk Breakdown Structure
Bottom-up Estimating
21. 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.)
Baseline
Earned Value Management
Project Charter
Discrete Effort
22. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Variance Analysis
Project Management Office
Resource Leveling
Apportioned Effort
23. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Procurement Management Plan
Deliverable
Schedule Variance
Change Control
24. 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.
Risk Management Plan
Rolling Wave Planning
Percent Complete
Scope Baseline
25. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Risk Category
Scope Management Plan
Program Management Office
Successor Activity
26. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio Management
Summary Activity
Start-to-Finish
Project Management
27. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Budget at Completion
Constraint
Crashing
Estimate at Completion
28. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Product Life Cycle
Schedule Model Analysis
Resource Breakdown Structure
Late Finish Date
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.
Path Divergence
Scope Baseline
Phase Gate
Gantt Chart
30. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Milestone
Portfolio Balancing
Risk Category
Portfolio
31. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Threat
Estimate at Completion
Project Management Office
Rolling Wave Planning
32. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Project Management Plan
Resource Breakdown Structure
Crashing
Successor Activity
33. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Procurement Management Plan
Start-to-Start
Milestone
Earned Value Management
34. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Critical Chain Method
Crashing
Portfolio
Estimate to Complete
35. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Risk Avoidance
Control Account
Apportioned Effort
Planned Value
36. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Opportunity
Schedule Management Plan
What-If Sce
Decomposition
37. 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.
Level of Effort
Free Float
Budget at Completion
Program
38. 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.
Gantt Chart
Program
Level of Effort
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.
Analogous Estimating
What-If Sce
Path Divergence
Project Scope Statement
40. 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.
Earned Value Management
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Three-Point Estimate
Acceptance Criteria
41. 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.
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Procurement Management Plan
Schedule Model
Critical Path Activity
42. 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.
Program Management Office
Early Finish Date
Performing Organization
Risk Breakdown Structure
43. 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.
Staffing Management Plan
Requirement
Schedule Performance Index
Finish-to-Start
44. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Scope Management Plan
Path Convergence
Communication Management Plan
Summary Activity
45. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Risk Avoidance
Risk Transference
Successor Activity
Effort
46. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Constraint
Gantt Chart
Percent Complete
Assumption
47. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Total Float
Cost Management Plan
Schedule Baseline
Project Schedule
48. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Requirements Management Plan
Project Management
Defect Repair
Risk Acceptance
49. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Portfolio
Program Management
Finish-to-Finish
Schedule Model Analysis
50. 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.
Critical Path Method
Earned Value Management
Rolling Wave Planning
Scope Baseline