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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. 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
Schedule Performance Index
Total Float
Cost Variance
2. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Portfolio Management
Schedule Performance Index
3. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Three-Point Estimate
Change Control
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Forward Pass
4. 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.
Program Management Office
Variance Analysis
Total Float
Requirements Traceability Matrix
5. 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
What-If Sce
Lessons Learned
Project
Human Resource Plan
6. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Data Date
Resource Breakdown Structure
Scope Creep
7. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Human Resource Plan
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Optimistic Duration
Probability and Impact Matrix
8. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Staffing Management Plan
Phase Gate
Actual Cost
Threat
9. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Decision Tree Analysis
Critical Path
Start-to-Start
Cost Variance
10. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Risk
Apportioned Effort
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Quality Management Plan
11. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Progressive Elaboration
Finish-to-Start
Requirements Management Plan
Path Divergence
12. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Human Resource Plan
Risk Mitigation
Pessimistic Duration
Opportunity
13. 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.)
Data Date
Human Resource Plan
Discrete Effort
Preventive Action
14. 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.
Risk Transference
Schedule Management Plan
Project
Early Finish Date
15. 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.
Program Management Office
Gantt Chart
Corrective Action
Late Start Date
16. 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
To-Complete Performance Index
Apportioned Effort
Performing Organization
Earned Value Management
17. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Threat
Cost Performance Index
Project Scope
Probability and Impact Matrix
18. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Risk
Risk Transference
Schedule Model
Change Control Board
19. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Assumption
Rolling Wave Planning
Program
Project Schedule Network Diagram
20. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Acceptance Criteria
WBS Dictionary
Scope Creep
Enterprise Environmental Factors
21. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Actual Cost
Program Management Office
Threat
Portfolio Management
22. 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 Management
Apportioned Effort
Program
Schedule Baseline
23. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Performing Organization
Risk Register
Resource Calendar
Baseline
24. An activity that does not produce definitive end products and is measured by the passage of time. (Note: Level of effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance.)
Pessimistic Duration
Late Finish Date
Estimate to Complete
Level of Effort
25. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
WBS Dictionary
Procurement Management Plan
Critical Path Method
Communication Management Plan
26. 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.
Progressive Elaboration
Variance Analysis
Fast Tracking
Phase Gate
27. 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.
Portfolio Management
Program
Early Start Date
Fast Tracking
28. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Cost Performance Index
Procurement Management Plan
Preventive Action
Project Management Plan
29. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Cost Variance
Estimate to Complete
Decision Tree Analysis
Scope Creep
30. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Risk Management Plan
Project Manager
Cost Performance Index
Percent Complete
31. The approved version of a scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) - and its associated WBS dictionary - which can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison.
Scope Baseline
Sponsor
Resource Breakdown Structure
Early Start Date
32. A group of potential causes of risk.
Lag
Program Management
To-Complete Performance Index
Risk Category
33. 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
Project Manager
Baseline
Program Management Office
34. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Rolling Wave Planning
Risk Register
Budget at Completion
Threat
35. 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.
Project Manager
S-Curve Analysis
Program
Schedule Model
36. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Code of Accounts
Project Management Plan
Activity
Forward Pass
37. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Corrective Action
Defect Repair
Critical Path Activity
38. 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
Resource Calendar
Start-to-Start
Code of Accounts
39. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Late Start Date
Assumption
Scope Management Plan
Project Management Plan
40. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Variance Analysis
Program
Parametric Estimating
Estimate to Complete
41. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Project Calendar
Estimate at Completion
Quality Management Plan
Enterprise Environmental Factors
42. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Summary Activity
Percent Complete
Path Divergence
Cost Variance
43. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Opportunity
Corrective Action
Earned Value Management
Product Life Cycle
44. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Early Start Date
What-If Sce
Variance at Completion
Portfolio Balancing
45. 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.
Project Management
Acceptance Criteria
Procurement Management Plan
Schedule Variance
46. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Summary Activity
Portfolio Balancing
Late Finish Date
Budget at Completion
47. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Human Resource Plan
Crashing
WBS Dictionary
Baseline
48. 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.
Rolling Wave Planning
Program Management
Product Life Cycle
Free Float
49. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Project Management Plan
Risk Acceptance
Path Convergence
Risk Transference
50. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Decomposition
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Project Scope Statement
Progressive Elaboration