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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Estimate at Completion
Constraint
Change Control
Requirements Management Plan
2. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Program Management Office
Schedule Model Analysis
Probability and Impact Matrix
Lead
3. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Communication Management Plan
Cost Performance Index
Project Scope
Earned Value Management
4. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Lag
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Early Finish Date
Project Calendar
5. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Phase Gate
Program Management Office
Quality Management Plan
Crashing
6. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Deliverable
Quality Management Plan
Portfolio Management
7. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Risk
Variance Analysis
Quality Management Plan
Program Management
8. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Estimate to Complete
Project Life Cycle
Project Calendar
Variance at Completion
9. 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.
Lessons Learned
Human Resource Plan
Schedule Baseline
Project Scope Statement
10. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Start-to-Finish
Path Divergence
Schedule Variance
11. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Three-Point Estimate
Pessimistic Duration
Organizational Process Assets
Path Divergence
12. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Variance Analysis
Summary Activity
Logical Relationship
Pessimistic Duration
13. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Organizational Process Assets
Project Scope
Schedule Management Plan
Critical Path Activity
14. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Requirement
Schedule Performance Index
Phase Gate
Earned Value Management
15. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Summary Activity
Schedule Compression
Risk Mitigation
16. An individual - group - or organization who may affect - be affected by - or perceive itself to be affected by a decision - activity - or outcome of a project - program - or portfolio.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Stakeholder
Earned Value
Scope Creep
17. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Lessons Learned
What-If Sce
Secondary Risk
18. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Project Charter
Requirement
Probability and Impact Matrix
Pessimistic Duration
19. 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
Risk Management Plan
To-Complete Performance Index
Project Management Office
20. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Performing Organization
Schedule Performance Index
Scope Baseline
Change Control
21. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Progressive Elaboration
Variance Analysis
S-Curve Analysis
Corrective Action
22. 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.
Scope Baseline
Requirements Management Plan
Summary Activity
Progressive Elaboration
23. 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
Change Control System
Acceptance Criteria
Resource Breakdown Structure
Apportioned Effort
24. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Project Management
What-If Sce
Portfolio Balancing
Lag
25. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Secondary Risk
Actual Cost
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Assumption
26. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Schedule Model Analysis
Start-to-Start
Schedule Baseline
Organizational Breakdown Structure
27. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Project Scope Statement
Risk
Baseline
Performing Organization
28. 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.
Schedule Performance Index
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Summary Activity
To-Complete Performance Index
29. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Schedule Performance Index
Change Control System
Quality Management Plan
Requirements Traceability Matrix
30. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Change Control System
Cost Management Plan
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Optimistic Duration
31. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Earned Value
Schedule Performance Index
Baseline
Project
32. 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.
Project Life Cycle
Early Finish Date
Probability and Impact Matrix
Project Scope Statement
33. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Schedule Model
Project Management Office
Most Likely Duration
Project Phase
34. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Parametric Estimating
Schedule Model Analysis
Control Account
Enterprise Environmental Factors
35. 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.
Cost Performance Index
Backward Pass
Performing Organization
Project Scope
36. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Estimate at Completion
Baseline
Project Scope Statement
Lessons Learned
37. 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.
Rolling Wave Planning
Phase Gate
Schedule Model
Risk Acceptance
38. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Analogous Estimating
Summary Activity
Project Management Office
Project Schedule Network Diagram
39. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Lessons Learned
Forward Pass
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Critical Path Method
40. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Budget at Completion
Resource Calendar
Milestone
41. 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.
Critical Path
Phase Gate
Resource Leveling
Actual Cost
42. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Planned Value
Project Phase
Change Request
Risk
43. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Risk Avoidance
Code of Accounts
Data Date
Schedule Performance Index
44. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Schedule Management Plan
Stakeholder
Project Scope
45. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Start-to-Start
Resource Calendar
Summary Activity
Control Account
46. 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.
Path Convergence
Schedule Management Plan
Lag
Early Start Date
47. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Portfolio Balancing
Change Control
Estimate to Complete
Risk
48. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Predecessor Activity
Earned Value
Actual Cost
49. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Critical Path Activity
Lessons Learned
Decomposition
Project Management Office
50. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Critical Path
Lag
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Summary Activity