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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Pessimistic Duration
Constraint
Critical Chain Method
Activity
2. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Project Scope
Communication Management Plan
Effort
Finish-to-Finish
3. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Procurement Management Plan
Critical Path Activity
Critical Chain Method
Cost Management Plan
4. 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.
Variance Analysis
Project Charter
Performing Organization
Critical Path Activity
5. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Project
Enterprise Environmental Factors
WBS Dictionary
6. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Data Date
Pessimistic Duration
Communication Management Plan
Change Control
7. The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information and more accurate estimates become available.
Start-to-Finish
Total Float
Progressive Elaboration
Requirements Management Plan
8. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Program Management Office
Finish-to-Start
Rolling Wave Planning
Late Finish Date
9. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Schedule Performance Index
Program Management
Portfolio Balancing
Trigger Condition
10. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any successor or violating a schedule constraint.
Logical Relationship
Free Float
Risk Register
Change Request
11. 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.
Late Start Date
Phase Gate
Path Divergence
Critical Path Activity
12. 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.
Project Schedule
Threat
Cost Variance
Early Start Date
13. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Project Management
Lessons Learned
Discrete Effort
Project Management Plan
14. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Bottom-up Estimating
Project Manager
Lessons Learned
Product Life Cycle
15. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Optimistic Duration
Requirement
Path Convergence
Variance at Completion
16. 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.
Lessons Learned
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Program
To-Complete Performance Index
17. 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.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Risk Acceptance
Critical Path Method
Cost Management Plan
18. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Requirements Management Plan
Schedule Model Analysis
Forward Pass
Portfolio
19. 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 Management Office
Risk Management Plan
Change Control System
Deliverable
20. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Start-to-Start
Schedule Model
Project Management Plan
Decomposition
21. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Parametric Estimating
Performing Organization
Portfolio Balancing
Most Likely Duration
22. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Project Life Cycle
Analogous Estimating
Corrective Action
Project Scope Statement
23. An activity that can be planned and measured and that yields a specific output. (Note: Discrete effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance.)
Human Resource Plan
Program Management
Discrete Effort
Phase Gate
24. 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.
Cost Variance
Corrective Action
Variance at Completion
Schedule Management Plan
25. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Earned Value Management
Requirements Management Plan
Opportunity
Rolling Wave Planning
26. 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.
Variance at Completion
Risk
Baseline
Rolling Wave Planning
27. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Acceptance Criteria
Procurement Management Plan
Logical Relationship
Project Life Cycle
28. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Project Schedule
Analogous Estimating
Change Request
Project Manager
29. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Schedule Model Analysis
Cost Variance
Predecessor Activity
Corrective Action
30. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Earned Value Management
Path Convergence
Assumption
Project Management
31. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Crashing
Optimistic Duration
Schedule Model Analysis
Change Control
32. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Risk
Change Request
Critical Path Activity
33. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Variance at Completion
Schedule Management Plan
Start-to-Finish
Portfolio Management
34. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Lessons Learned
Earned Value
Parametric Estimating
Program Management Office
35. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Cost Variance
Late Start Date
Backward Pass
36. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Level of Effort
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Path Divergence
Risk Transference
37. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
What-If Sce
Schedule Variance
Parametric Estimating
Planned Value
38. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Successor Activity
Quality Management Plan
Project Management
Corrective Action
39. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Milestone
Project Phase
Schedule Compression
Schedule Baseline
40. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Deliverable
Portfolio Management
To-Complete Performance Index
Preventive Action
41. 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
Fast Tracking
Resource Leveling
Requirements Traceability Matrix
42. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Staffing Management Plan
Progressive Elaboration
Cost Variance
Acceptance Criteria
43. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Early Start Date
Variance Analysis
Critical Path Method
Trigger Condition
44. 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.
Portfolio
Schedule Baseline
Project Calendar
Scope Management Plan
45. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Risk Mitigation
Project Life Cycle
Path Convergence
Human Resource Plan
46. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Program Management
Pessimistic Duration
Resource Breakdown Structure
Schedule Management Plan
47. 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
Scope Management Plan
Schedule Variance
Project Management Office
48. 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.
Baseline
Decomposition
Milestone
Project Schedule
49. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Portfolio
Resource Breakdown Structure
Product Life Cycle
Effort
50. 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.
Code of Accounts
Project Calendar
Early Finish Date
Project Manager