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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Path Convergence
Project Phase
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Requirements Management Plan
2. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Cost Variance
Change Control Board
What-If Sce
Actual Cost
3. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Change Control Board
Project Phase
Most Likely Duration
Change Control
4. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Schedule Model Analysis
Project Management
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Late Finish Date
5. 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
Free Float
Progressive Elaboration
Project Scope Statement
6. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Late Finish Date
Program Management Office
Deliverable
Schedule Variance
7. A group of related projects - subprograms and program activities that are managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually.
Percent Complete
Schedule Variance
Program
Organizational Breakdown Structure
8. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Defect Repair
Assumption
Project Scope
Cost Performance Index
9. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Code of Accounts
Lead
Earned Value
Budget at Completion
10. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Level of Effort
Optimistic Duration
Successor Activity
Lead
11. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Risk Category
Scope Management Plan
Project
Risk Management Plan
12. 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.
Fast Tracking
Late Finish Date
Sponsor
Resource Calendar
13. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Secondary Risk
Project Management Office
Project
Scope Creep
14. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Risk Mitigation
Fast Tracking
Rolling Wave Planning
Secondary Risk
15. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Most Likely Duration
Baseline
Earned Value
Project Management
16. 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.
Activity
Scope Creep
Procurement Management Plan
Probability and Impact Matrix
17. 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.
Effort
Scope Management Plan
Resource Calendar
Requirement
18. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Level of Effort
Schedule Variance
Critical Path
Cost Management Plan
19. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Rolling Wave Planning
Acceptance Criteria
Parametric Estimating
S-Curve Analysis
20. 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 Calendar
Opportunity
Enterprise Environmental Factors
21. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Change Control Board
S-Curve Analysis
Early Start Date
Critical Chain Method
22. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Project Schedule
Risk Transference
Risk Register
Critical Path Method
23. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Preventive Action
Total Float
Deliverable
Risk Transference
24. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Sponsor
Project Calendar
Critical Path
Risk Avoidance
25. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Critical Path Method
Bottom-up Estimating
Probability and Impact Matrix
To-Complete Performance Index
26. 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.
Backward Pass
To-Complete Performance Index
Critical Path Method
Risk Management Plan
27. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
S-Curve Analysis
Earned Value
Project Scope Statement
Change Control System
28. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Project Scope
Program Management Office
Scope Management Plan
Risk Register
29. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Early Start Date
Project Management Office
Schedule Model Analysis
Variance Analysis
30. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Constraint
Lessons Learned
Schedule Performance Index
Code of Accounts
31. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Portfolio Management
Requirements Traceability Matrix
What-If Sce
Corrective Action
32. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Fast Tracking
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Constraint
Enterprise Environmental Factors
33. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Performing Organization
Progressive Elaboration
Path Divergence
Program Management Office
34. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Opportunity
Parametric Estimating
Stakeholder
Actual Cost
35. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Defect Repair
Change Request
Staffing Management Plan
Project Schedule
36. 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.
Path Divergence
Successor Activity
Free Float
Three-Point Estimate
37. 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.)
Probability and Impact Matrix
Finish-to-Finish
Schedule Model
Discrete Effort
38. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Late Finish Date
Human Resource Plan
Risk Management Plan
Estimate to Complete
39. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Logical Relationship
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Code of Accounts
Change Control Board
40. 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.
Logical Relationship
Schedule Baseline
Project Scope Statement
Start-to-Start
41. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Staffing Management Plan
Resource Calendar
Analogous Estimating
Lag
42. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Schedule Performance Index
Risk Avoidance
Pessimistic Duration
Baseline
43. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Actual Cost
Precedence Diagramming Method
Sponsor
Scope Management Plan
44. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Effort
Milestone
Decision Tree Analysis
Scope Creep
45. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Discrete Effort
Organizational Process Assets
Risk Avoidance
Performing Organization
46. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Control Account
Opportunity
Earned Value Management
Risk Register
47. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Organizational Process Assets
Resource Breakdown Structure
Portfolio Balancing
Successor Activity
48. 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.
Risk Acceptance
Change Control Board
Human Resource Plan
Progressive Elaboration
49. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Trigger Condition
Finish-to-Start
Project Scope
Change Control
50. 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
Staffing Management Plan
Schedule Variance
Free Float