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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
S-Curve Analysis
Analogous Estimating
Requirement
Baseline
2. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Deliverable
Lag
Corrective Action
Requirements Management Plan
3. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Variance at Completion
Portfolio Management
Risk Management Plan
Budget at Completion
4. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Threat
Code of Accounts
Pessimistic Duration
Staffing Management Plan
5. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Risk Management Plan
Critical Chain Method
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Path Divergence
6. 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.
Planned Value
Preventive Action
To-Complete Performance Index
Trigger Condition
7. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Opportunity
Risk Avoidance
Schedule Model Analysis
Bottom-up Estimating
8. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Finish-to-Finish
Scope Management Plan
Estimate at Completion
Performing Organization
9. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Start-to-Start
Percent Complete
Constraint
Performing Organization
10. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Scope Creep
Predecessor Activity
Project Life Cycle
Risk Mitigation
11. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Finish-to-Start
Late Start Date
Project Management Plan
Decomposition
12. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Data Date
Project
Effort
Corrective Action
13. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Apportioned Effort
Project
Schedule Performance Index
Level of Effort
14. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Risk
Risk Breakdown Structure
Project Phase
Gantt Chart
15. 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
Variance Analysis
Threat
Summary Activity
16. 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.
Preventive Action
Risk Breakdown Structure
Organizational Process Assets
Project Charter
17. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Schedule Model Analysis
Path Divergence
Preventive Action
Risk Register
18. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Resource Leveling
Project Manager
Milestone
Sponsor
19. 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.
Cost Variance
Project
Three-Point Estimate
Constraint
20. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Deliverable
Apportioned Effort
Estimate at Completion
Analogous Estimating
21. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Actual Cost
Estimate to Complete
Path Convergence
S-Curve Analysis
22. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Budget at Completion
Project Management Plan
Portfolio
Discrete Effort
23. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Successor Activity
Forward Pass
S-Curve Analysis
Schedule Management Plan
24. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Communication Management Plan
What-If Sce
Corrective Action
Progressive Elaboration
25. A technique used for constructing a schedule model in which activities are represented by nodes and are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are to be performed.
Project Manager
Project Management Office
Project Life Cycle
Precedence Diagramming Method
26. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Project Calendar
Project Life Cycle
Late Finish Date
Pessimistic Duration
27. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Project Management
Project Schedule
Project Scope Statement
Planned Value
28. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Risk Category
Project Scope Statement
Control Account
Risk
29. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Start-to-Finish
Early Start Date
Project Manager
What-If Sce
30. 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.
Schedule Baseline
Predecessor Activity
Resource Breakdown Structure
Lessons Learned
31. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Rolling Wave Planning
Activity
Cost Performance Index
Earned Value Management
32. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Summary Activity
Project Management Office
Logical Relationship
Critical Path Activity
33. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Early Start Date
Cost Variance
Project Scope Statement
Budget at Completion
34. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Lead
Summary Activity
Crashing
Change Request
35. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Cost Variance
Crashing
Finish-to-Finish
Risk Management Plan
36. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Earned Value Management
Planned Value
Secondary Risk
Change Control System
37. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Stakeholder
Critical Chain Method
Forward Pass
Program Management Office
38. 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.
Project Manager
Risk Management Plan
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Rolling Wave Planning
39. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Activity
Level of Effort
Schedule Compression
Project Phase
40. 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.
Progressive Elaboration
Risk Breakdown Structure
Critical Path Method
Early Start Date
41. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Management Office
Acceptance Criteria
Variance at Completion
42. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Change Control
What-If Sce
Phase Gate
Corrective Action
43. 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.
Resource Leveling
Logical Relationship
Sponsor
Precedence Diagramming Method
44. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Risk Transference
Defect Repair
Project Manager
Cost Management Plan
45. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Critical Path
Project Management
Actual Cost
Decision Tree Analysis
46. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Procurement Management Plan
Variance Analysis
Late Start Date
Risk
47. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Portfolio Balancing
Phase Gate
Forward Pass
Early Start Date
48. 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.
Project Life Cycle
Fast Tracking
Critical Path Activity
Estimate to Complete
49. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
What-If Sce
Resource Breakdown Structure
S-Curve Analysis
Scope Management Plan
50. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Requirements Management Plan
To-Complete Performance Index
Resource Calendar
Project Calendar