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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. 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.
Schedule Compression
Project Calendar
Forward Pass
Percent Complete
2. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Data Date
Risk
Schedule Compression
Scope Management Plan
3. 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.
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Activity
Project Charter
Logical Relationship
4. 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.
Performing Organization
Critical Path Method
Early Start Date
Product Life Cycle
5. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Requirement
Activity
Defect Repair
Staffing Management Plan
6. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Rolling Wave Planning
Precedence Diagramming Method
Parametric Estimating
Risk
7. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Control Account
Probability and Impact Matrix
Change Request
Scope Baseline
8. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Start-to-Start
Portfolio Management
Change Control Board
Requirements Traceability Matrix
9. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Gantt Chart
S-Curve Analysis
Change Control Board
10. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Critical Chain Method
Change Control System
Threat
Organizational Project Management Maturity
11. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Lead
Finish-to-Finish
Estimate to Complete
12. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Sponsor
Change Control System
Rolling Wave Planning
Quality Management Plan
13. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Requirements Management Plan
Defect Repair
Project Scope
Scope Management Plan
14. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Earned Value
Logical Relationship
What-If Sce
Cost Variance
15. 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.
Requirement
Schedule Model
Deliverable
Decision Tree Analysis
16. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Preventive Action
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Cost Management Plan
Project Management Office
17. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Performing Organization
Schedule Performance Index
What-If Sce
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.
Constraint
Schedule Compression
Risk Acceptance
Schedule Baseline
19. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed or extended from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.
Cost Variance
Total Float
Rolling Wave Planning
Estimate to Complete
20. 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
Apportioned Effort
Communication Management Plan
Schedule Model
WBS Dictionary
21. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Percent Complete
Program Management
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Risk Acceptance
22. 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
Rolling Wave Planning
Actual Cost
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
23. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Finish-to-Finish
Resource Calendar
Critical Chain Method
Change Request
24. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Project Schedule
Project Management Office
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Gantt Chart
25. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Change Control
Project Charter
Milestone
Risk
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.
Rolling Wave Planning
Finish-to-Finish
Defect Repair
Milestone
27. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Risk Mitigation
Optimistic Duration
Project Schedule
Portfolio
28. 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.
Three-Point Estimate
Program Management
To-Complete Performance Index
Probability and Impact Matrix
29. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Risk Avoidance
Percent Complete
Start-to-Finish
Procurement Management Plan
30. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Code of Accounts
Optimistic Duration
Cost Performance Index
Pessimistic Duration
31. 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.
What-If Sce
Rolling Wave Planning
Risk Avoidance
Deliverable
32. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Change Control Board
Stakeholder
Risk Mitigation
Program Management Office
33. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Constraint
Risk
Procurement Management Plan
Critical Path Method
34. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how a team will acquire goods and services from outside of the performing organization.
Procurement Management Plan
Program Management
Parametric Estimating
Logical Relationship
35. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Schedule Performance Index
Estimate at Completion
Portfolio Balancing
Risk Transference
36. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Estimate at Completion
Portfolio
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Critical Path Method
37. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Path Divergence
Preventive Action
Path Convergence
Percent Complete
38. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Scope Management Plan
Summary Activity
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Risk Register
39. 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.
Scope Creep
Risk Breakdown Structure
Requirements Management Plan
Phase Gate
40. 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
Project Scope Statement
Sponsor
Lessons Learned
Risk Mitigation
41. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Deliverable
Start-to-Start
Critical Chain Method
Path Convergence
42. 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.
Three-Point Estimate
Actual Cost
Defect Repair
Schedule Compression
43. A bar chart of schedule information where activities are listed on the vertical axis - dates are shown on the horizontal axis - and activity durations are shown as horizontal bars placed according to start and finish dates.
Gantt Chart
Project Scope
Scope Creep
Communication Management Plan
44. 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.
Start-to-Finish
Late Start Date
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Project Management
45. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Decision Tree Analysis
Cost Management Plan
Rolling Wave Planning
Corrective Action
46. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Estimate at Completion
Assumption
Resource Calendar
Parametric Estimating
47. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Gantt Chart
Change Control Board
Risk Avoidance
Change Control System
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.
Fast Tracking
Project
Backward Pass
Cost Performance Index
49. 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.
Early Start Date
Change Control System
Variance Analysis
Start-to-Start
50. A condition or capability that is required to be present in a product - service - or result to satisfy a contract or other formally imposed specification.
Estimate to Complete
Requirement
WBS Dictionary
Portfolio Balancing