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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Sponsor
Resource Calendar
Predecessor Activity
Program Management Office
2. 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.
Scope Baseline
To-Complete Performance Index
Sponsor
Schedule Model
3. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Actual Cost
Early Start Date
Project Scope Statement
Predecessor Activity
4. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Schedule Compression
Project Calendar
Free Float
Earned Value Management
5. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Resource Calendar
Late Start Date
Project Life Cycle
Organizational Process Assets
6. 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.
Risk Category
Backward Pass
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Activity
7. 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.
Deliverable
Earned Value
Quality Management Plan
Free Float
8. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Variance at Completion
What-If Sce
Procurement Management Plan
Project Scope Statement
9. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Lag
Program
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Pessimistic Duration
10. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Schedule Baseline
Schedule Compression
Organizational Process Assets
Phase Gate
11. 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
Change Control Board
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Project
12. 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
Data Date
Corrective Action
Late Start Date
13. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships - and staff management will be addressed and structured.
Portfolio Balancing
Sponsor
Human Resource Plan
Bottom-up Estimating
14. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Backward Pass
Program
Total Float
Assumption
15. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Critical Path Activity
Project Manager
To-Complete Performance Index
Actual Cost
16. 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.
Risk Avoidance
Early Start Date
Effort
Budget at Completion
17. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Project Phase
Risk Breakdown Structure
Activity
Product Life Cycle
18. 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.
Start-to-Finish
Late Start Date
Trigger Condition
Free Float
19. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Risk Management Plan
Resource Leveling
Risk Category
Requirements Traceability Matrix
20. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Schedule Model
Project Scope
Staffing Management Plan
Risk Avoidance
21. 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.
Assumption
Resource Leveling
Risk Breakdown Structure
Forward Pass
22. In the critical path method - the latest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can finish based on the schedule network logic - the project completion date - and any schedule constraints.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Late Finish Date
Resource Leveling
Schedule Compression
23. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Change Control
Scope Creep
Project Phase
Preventive Action
24. 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.
Phase Gate
Change Control
Trigger Condition
Planned Value
25. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Control Account
Requirements Management Plan
Three-Point Estimate
26. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Risk
Product Life Cycle
S-Curve Analysis
Trigger Condition
27. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Procurement Management Plan
Phase Gate
Estimate to Complete
Variance Analysis
28. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Milestone
Project Management Office
Analogous Estimating
Schedule Management Plan
29. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
S-Curve Analysis
Risk Transference
Lead
Risk
30. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Defect Repair
Schedule Baseline
Bottom-up Estimating
Activity
31. 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.)
Risk Breakdown Structure
Level of Effort
Resource Breakdown Structure
Actual Cost
32. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed or extended from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.
Path Convergence
Fast Tracking
Phase Gate
Total Float
33. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Quality Management Plan
Critical Path Method
Discrete Effort
Corrective Action
34. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Project Management Office
Scope Management Plan
Portfolio Balancing
Effort
35. 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.
Optimistic Duration
Three-Point Estimate
Schedule Model
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
36. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Staffing Management Plan
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Risk Breakdown Structure
Budget at Completion
37. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Planned Value
Project
Project Management
Defect Repair
38. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Schedule Performance Index
Project Manager
Free Float
Early Start Date
39. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Project Calendar
Risk Register
Data Date
Summary Activity
40. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Decision Tree Analysis
Data Date
Variance Analysis
Cost Performance Index
41. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Three-Point Estimate
Variance Analysis
Probability and Impact Matrix
Acceptance Criteria
42. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Project Management Plan
Requirements Management Plan
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Risk Acceptance
43. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Schedule Model Analysis
Project Management
Rolling Wave Planning
Risk
44. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Program
Planned Value
Quality Management Plan
Project Management Office
45. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Preventive Action
Fast Tracking
Budget at Completion
Pessimistic Duration
46. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio Management
Optimistic Duration
Portfolio Balancing
Predecessor Activity
47. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Code of Accounts
Deliverable
Backward Pass
Defect Repair
48. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Bottom-up Estimating
Phase Gate
What-If Sce
Finish-to-Start
49. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Cost Management Plan
Gantt Chart
Rolling Wave Planning
Successor Activity
50. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Predecessor Activity
Portfolio
Earned Value
Cost Variance