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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Scope Baseline
Planned Value
Percent Complete
Crashing
2. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Acceptance Criteria
Planned Value
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Performing Organization
3. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Schedule Performance Index
Path Convergence
Resource Leveling
Lead
4. 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.
Phase Gate
Rolling Wave Planning
Secondary Risk
Lead
5. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Preventive Action
S-Curve Analysis
Change Control System
Requirement
6. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Communication Management Plan
Decision Tree Analysis
Portfolio Balancing
Portfolio Management
7. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Project Scope Statement
Path Convergence
Effort
Risk Management Plan
8. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Trigger Condition
Bottom-up Estimating
Acceptance Criteria
Actual Cost
9. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Schedule Compression
Crashing
Rolling Wave Planning
Estimate at Completion
10. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Critical Chain Method
Project Phase
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
11. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Control Account
Project Life Cycle
Critical Path Activity
Cost Management Plan
12. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Parametric Estimating
Organizational Process Assets
Early Finish Date
Product Life Cycle
13. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Scope Baseline
Assumption
Parametric Estimating
Lessons Learned
14. 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.)
Program Management
Communication Management Plan
Constraint
Discrete Effort
15. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Schedule Management Plan
Precedence Diagramming Method
Pessimistic Duration
Late Start Date
16. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Scope Baseline
Project Scope Statement
Cost Variance
Decomposition
17. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Scope Baseline
Defect Repair
Project Life Cycle
Earned Value
18. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Defect Repair
Progressive Elaboration
Secondary Risk
Baseline
19. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Activity
Threat
Level of Effort
Performing Organization
20. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Variance Analysis
Change Request
Resource Calendar
Start-to-Start
21. 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.
Schedule Baseline
Scope Creep
Effort
Scope Baseline
22. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
What-If Sce
Successor Activity
Three-Point Estimate
Critical Path Method
23. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Scope Baseline
Schedule Model Analysis
Critical Chain Method
Portfolio
24. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Program Management Office
Resource Breakdown Structure
Apportioned Effort
Risk Breakdown Structure
25. 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.
Project Management
Earned Value Management
Organizational Process Assets
Critical Path Method
26. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Start-to-Start
Estimate to Complete
Risk Transference
Crashing
27. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Requirement
Acceptance Criteria
Opportunity
Fast Tracking
28. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Critical Path
Finish-to-Start
Organizational Process Assets
Threat
29. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Communication Management Plan
Critical Path Activity
Successor Activity
Scope Management Plan
30. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Optimistic Duration
Scope Creep
Late Finish Date
WBS Dictionary
31. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
S-Curve Analysis
Critical Path Activity
Stakeholder
Project
32. 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.
Decomposition
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Late Start Date
To-Complete Performance Index
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.
Assumption
Project Charter
Risk
Schedule Baseline
34. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Variance Analysis
Level of Effort
Estimate to Complete
Change Control
35. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Requirements Management Plan
Portfolio
Project Manager
Activity
36. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Baseline
Risk Register
Project Life Cycle
Schedule Variance
37. 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.
Earned Value
Early Start Date
Schedule Model
Risk Acceptance
38. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Procurement Management Plan
Project Schedule
Budget at Completion
Trigger Condition
39. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Risk Avoidance
Project Life Cycle
Project Management
Change Control
40. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Analogous Estimating
Schedule Variance
Opportunity
Change Control Board
41. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Project Scope Statement
Human Resource Plan
Product Life Cycle
Organizational Project Management Maturity
42. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
WBS Dictionary
Project Calendar
Scope Management Plan
Opportunity
43. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Estimate at Completion
Level of Effort
Forward Pass
Budget at Completion
44. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Optimistic Duration
Change Control Board
Schedule Model Analysis
Performing Organization
45. A group of potential causes of risk.
Risk Category
Early Finish Date
Total Float
Project Manager
46. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Path Divergence
Schedule Baseline
Resource Calendar
Project Schedule Network Diagram
47. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Program
Sponsor
Early Finish Date
Decision Tree Analysis
48. 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.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Total Float
Trigger Condition
Acceptance Criteria
49. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Change Control System
Most Likely Duration
Schedule Variance
Procurement Management Plan
50. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Critical Path Activity
Rolling Wave Planning
Project Scope Statement
Cost Management Plan