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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Project Charter
Parametric Estimating
Secondary Risk
Path Divergence
2. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Schedule Model
Staffing Management Plan
Risk Avoidance
Project Phase
3. 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.
Critical Path Method
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Program Management
Procurement Management Plan
4. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Requirements Management Plan
Project Phase
Project Calendar
Risk Transference
5. 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.
Program
Project Charter
Actual Cost
Deliverable
6. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Sponsor
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Code of Accounts
Successor Activity
7. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Planned Value
Start-to-Start
Pessimistic Duration
Critical Path Activity
8. A schedule compression technique in which activities or phases normally done in sequence are performed in parallel for at least a portion of their duration.
Sponsor
Fast Tracking
Earned Value Management
What-If Sce
9. 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.
Estimate to Complete
Late Start Date
Earned Value Management
Decomposition
10. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Most Likely Duration
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Risk
Project Scope Statement
11. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Path Convergence
Product Life Cycle
Portfolio Management
Baseline
12. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Product Life Cycle
Portfolio
Decomposition
Organizational Project Management Maturity
13. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Backward Pass
Successor Activity
Late Finish Date
Late Start Date
14. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Data Date
Change Control System
Gantt Chart
Total Float
15. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Opportunity
Decision Tree Analysis
Parametric Estimating
Path Divergence
16. 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.
Milestone
Risk
Critical Path Method
Schedule Baseline
17. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Acceptance Criteria
Risk Management Plan
Project Management Plan
Critical Path Activity
18. 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.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Total Float
Schedule Baseline
Corrective Action
19. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Schedule Model Analysis
Total Float
Critical Path Activity
Effort
20. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Summary Activity
Cost Variance
Crashing
Effort
21. 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 Board
Estimate at Completion
Logical Relationship
Start-to-Finish
22. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Project
Corrective Action
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Performing Organization
23. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Project Management Office
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Program Management Office
Program Management
24. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Scope Management Plan
Project Scope Statement
Product Life Cycle
Planned Value
25. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Risk
Crashing
Corrective Action
Resource Leveling
26. 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.
Early Finish Date
Late Finish Date
Critical Path
Total Float
27. 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.
Schedule Model
Risk Avoidance
Planned Value
Variance Analysis
28. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Stakeholder
Requirement
Data Date
Decomposition
29. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Cost Performance Index
Analogous Estimating
Bottom-up Estimating
Lessons Learned
30. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
S-Curve Analysis
Performing Organization
Schedule Variance
Secondary Risk
31. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Risk Acceptance
Project Management
Early Start Date
Scope Baseline
32. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Effort
Summary Activity
Change Control Board
Project Management Office
33. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Code of Accounts
Budget at Completion
Project Scope
Project Schedule Network Diagram
34. A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Bottom-up Estimating
Project Charter
Earned Value Management
35. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Risk Register
Earned Value
Phase Gate
Early Finish Date
36. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Secondary Risk
Resource Calendar
Program
Control Account
37. 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
Scope Management Plan
Late Start Date
Lessons Learned
Scope Creep
38. 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.
Variance Analysis
Requirements Management Plan
Risk Acceptance
Stakeholder
39. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Risk Avoidance
Cost Variance
Finish-to-Start
Schedule Model Analysis
40. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Staffing Management Plan
Lag
Risk Management Plan
Constraint
41. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Performing Organization
Project Management Plan
Backward Pass
Organizational Breakdown Structure
42. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Resource Calendar
Project Phase
Change Control
Actual Cost
43. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Scope Management Plan
Organizational Process Assets
S-Curve Analysis
Risk Transference
44. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Change Control
Lag
Product Life Cycle
Schedule Management Plan
45. 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.)
Probability and Impact Matrix
Opportunity
Early Finish Date
Level of Effort
46. 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.
Corrective Action
Communication Management Plan
Baseline
Resource Leveling
47. 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.
Stakeholder
Forward Pass
Lead
Logical Relationship
48. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Schedule Performance Index
Project Scope Statement
Level of Effort
Early Start Date
49. 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.
Finish-to-Finish
Critical Chain Method
Cost Variance
Procurement Management Plan
50. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Product Life Cycle
Project Manager
Estimate to Complete
Risk Management Plan