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PMI Project Management Vocab

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1. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.






2. 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.






3. 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






4. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.






5. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.






6. 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.






7. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.






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.






9. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.






10. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.






11. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.






12. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.






13. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.






14. A group of potential causes of risk.






15. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to a program to meet the program requirements and to obtain benefits and control not available by managing projects individually.






16. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.






17. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.






18. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.






19. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.






20. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.






21. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.






22. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.






23. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.






24. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.






25. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.






26. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.






27. 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.






28. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.






29. 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.






30. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.






31. 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.






32. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.






33. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.






34. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.






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.






36. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.






37. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.






38. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.






39. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.






40. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.






41. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.






42. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.






43. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.






44. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.






45. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.






46. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.






47. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.






48. 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.






49. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.






50. 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.