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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Schedule Model Analysis
Late Start Date
Phase Gate
Project Schedule
2. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Project Management Office
Risk
Analogous Estimating
Trigger Condition
3. 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.
Critical Path
Risk Breakdown Structure
Bottom-up Estimating
Program
4. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Risk Avoidance
Probability and Impact Matrix
Finish-to-Start
Critical Path
5. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Effort
Activity
Schedule Management Plan
Probability and Impact Matrix
6. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Early Start Date
Optimistic Duration
Cost Management Plan
Backward Pass
7. 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.
Finish-to-Finish
Start-to-Finish
Late Finish Date
Early Start Date
8. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Actual Cost
Change Control
Earned Value Management
WBS Dictionary
9. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Project Phase
Procurement Management Plan
Resource Calendar
Pessimistic Duration
10. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Deliverable
Change Control
Schedule Management Plan
Finish-to-Finish
11. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Project Scope
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Decomposition
Threat
12. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Project Manager
Pessimistic Duration
Defect Repair
To-Complete Performance Index
13. 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.
Data Date
Program Management
Change Request
Enterprise Environmental Factors
14. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
To-Complete Performance Index
Cost Performance Index
Lag
Risk Avoidance
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.
Total Float
Schedule Baseline
Variance at Completion
Start-to-Finish
16. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Risk Avoidance
WBS Dictionary
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Critical Path Method
17. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Risk Management Plan
Requirements Management Plan
Discrete Effort
Risk Avoidance
18. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Communication Management Plan
Lead
Forward Pass
Critical Chain Method
19. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Project Scope
Sponsor
Actual Cost
Critical Path
20. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Program
Project Management
Resource Calendar
Secondary Risk
21. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
WBS Dictionary
Total Float
Scope Creep
Schedule Model
22. 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
Backward Pass
Project Management Plan
Cost Variance
23. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Product Life Cycle
Staffing Management Plan
Change Control
Schedule Compression
24. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Forward Pass
Bottom-up Estimating
Path Divergence
Trigger Condition
25. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
To-Complete Performance Index
S-Curve Analysis
Cost Variance
Critical Chain Method
26. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Scope Management Plan
Late Start Date
Lessons Learned
Requirements Management Plan
27. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
WBS Dictionary
Lag
Portfolio Balancing
28. 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.
Percent Complete
Three-Point Estimate
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Pessimistic Duration
29. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Portfolio Management
Late Finish Date
Bottom-up Estimating
Constraint
30. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Rolling Wave Planning
Staffing Management Plan
Critical Path Activity
Milestone
31. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
WBS Dictionary
To-Complete Performance Index
Portfolio Management
32. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Program Management Office
Finish-to-Finish
Optimistic Duration
Path Convergence
33. 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.
Project Life Cycle
Schedule Baseline
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Variance Analysis
34. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Program Management
Estimate to Complete
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Staffing Management Plan
35. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Preventive Action
Acceptance Criteria
Probability and Impact Matrix
Project Scope Statement
36. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Risk Avoidance
Project Management Office
Product Life Cycle
Resource Calendar
37. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Activity
Pessimistic Duration
Portfolio Balancing
Scope Management Plan
38. 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.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Total Float
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Deliverable
39. 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.
Deliverable
Trigger Condition
Risk Management Plan
Critical Path
40. 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
Risk
Project Management
Progressive Elaboration
41. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Variance Analysis
Milestone
Schedule Variance
Probability and Impact Matrix
42. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Schedule Baseline
Progressive Elaboration
Project Schedule
Effort
43. 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.
Change Request
Project Calendar
Progressive Elaboration
Phase Gate
44. 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.
Project Manager
Schedule Management Plan
Trigger Condition
Gantt Chart
45. 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
Constraint
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Discrete Effort
46. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships - and staff management will be addressed and structured.
Apportioned Effort
Human Resource Plan
Summary Activity
Schedule Model Analysis
47. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Program Management Office
Risk Breakdown Structure
Project Management Office
Organizational Breakdown Structure
48. 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.
Parametric Estimating
Change Control Board
What-If Sce
Procurement Management Plan
49. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Variance at Completion
Risk Transference
Decision Tree Analysis
Organizational Process Assets
50. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Project Management Plan
WBS Dictionary
Portfolio Management
Risk Management Plan