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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Discrete Effort
Resource Breakdown Structure
Project Management Office
Schedule Performance Index
2. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
What-If Sce
Baseline
Start-to-Finish
Resource Calendar
3. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Project Scope Statement
Risk Register
Change Control Board
Control Account
4. 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.
Stakeholder
Schedule Model
S-Curve Analysis
Project Life Cycle
5. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Actual Cost
Project Management Office
Threat
Schedule Compression
6. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Project Schedule
Trigger Condition
Risk
Fast Tracking
7. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio Management
Requirement
Estimate to Complete
Start-to-Start
8. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Earned Value Management
Risk Category
Summary Activity
Change Control System
9. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Portfolio Management
What-If Sce
Risk Transference
Lead
10. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Resource Leveling
Earned Value
Secondary Risk
Risk Acceptance
11. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Level of Effort
Path Divergence
Risk Register
Effort
12. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Constraint
Path Divergence
Early Start Date
Variance Analysis
13. 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.
Summary Activity
Earned Value Management
Analogous Estimating
Resource Leveling
14. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Phase Gate
To-Complete Performance Index
S-Curve Analysis
Summary Activity
15. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Project Management
Constraint
Project Scope
Risk Acceptance
16. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Fast Tracking
Scope Management Plan
Resource Calendar
Organizational Breakdown Structure
17. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Change Request
Most Likely Duration
Organizational Process Assets
Discrete Effort
18. 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.
Free Float
Optimistic Duration
Stakeholder
Schedule Management Plan
19. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Risk Management Plan
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Forward Pass
Change Control System
20. 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.
Code of Accounts
Project Management Plan
Human Resource Plan
Performing Organization
21. 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
Quality Management Plan
Threat
Human Resource Plan
Lessons Learned
22. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Most Likely Duration
Change Control
Requirements Management Plan
Scope Management Plan
23. 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.
Requirement
Backward Pass
Data Date
Variance at Completion
24. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Change Control
Portfolio Balancing
Early Finish Date
Crashing
25. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Late Finish Date
Organizational Process Assets
Performing Organization
Logical Relationship
26. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Critical Path Method
Project
Defect Repair
Program
27. 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.
Rolling Wave Planning
Schedule Variance
Risk Breakdown Structure
Analogous Estimating
28. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Preventive Action
Project Charter
Start-to-Finish
Most Likely Duration
29. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Cost Management Plan
Assumption
Schedule Performance Index
Milestone
30. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Risk
Project Charter
Risk Avoidance
Risk Transference
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.
Earned Value
Activity
Portfolio Balancing
Baseline
32. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Deliverable
Variance at Completion
Most Likely Duration
Data Date
33. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Three-Point Estimate
Portfolio
Critical Path Activity
Forward Pass
34. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Trigger Condition
Precedence Diagramming Method
Opportunity
Discrete Effort
35. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Human Resource Plan
Schedule Model Analysis
Project Charter
Successor Activity
36. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Decision Tree Analysis
Assumption
Risk Breakdown Structure
Early Start Date
37. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Quality Management Plan
Fast Tracking
Phase Gate
Deliverable
38. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Decomposition
Project Phase
Path Convergence
Finish-to-Start
39. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Threat
Resource Calendar
Estimate at Completion
Portfolio
40. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Sponsor
Risk Acceptance
Most Likely Duration
Product Life Cycle
41. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Critical Path Activity
Project Manager
Parametric Estimating
Risk Avoidance
42. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Communication Management Plan
What-If Sce
Early Start Date
Project Scope Statement
43. 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.
Forward Pass
Resource Leveling
Early Finish Date
Performing Organization
44. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Finish-to-Finish
Trigger Condition
Communication Management Plan
Project
45. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Lessons Learned
Project Management
Program Management Office
Critical Chain Method
46. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Code of Accounts
Bottom-up Estimating
Path Convergence
Early Start Date
47. 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.
Late Finish Date
Procurement Management Plan
Quality Management Plan
Free Float
48. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Control Account
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Phase Gate
Secondary Risk
49. 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.
To-Complete Performance Index
Program Management
Successor Activity
Assumption
50. 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.
Project Schedule
Lag
Program Management
Early Start Date