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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Lessons Learned
Scope Management Plan
Apportioned Effort
Risk Acceptance
2. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Program Management Office
Precedence Diagramming Method
Most Likely Duration
Project Schedule
3. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Quality Management Plan
Variance Analysis
S-Curve Analysis
Human Resource Plan
4. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Product Life Cycle
Schedule Variance
Project Scope
Fast Tracking
5. The approved version of a work product that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison.
Baseline
Portfolio
Project Charter
Gantt Chart
6. 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.
Cost Management Plan
Optimistic Duration
Program
Project Charter
7. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Assumption
Scope Management Plan
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Control Account
8. 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.
Gantt Chart
Progressive Elaboration
Project Phase
Budget at Completion
9. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Opportunity
Critical Path Activity
Schedule Management Plan
10. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Resource Leveling
Risk Management Plan
Earned Value
Risk Register
11. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Requirements Management Plan
Critical Path Method
Risk
Late Finish Date
12. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Early Finish Date
Predecessor Activity
Risk Breakdown Structure
Project Schedule Network Diagram
13. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Portfolio
Gantt Chart
Organizational Process Assets
Portfolio Management
14. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Change Control System
Risk Acceptance
Baseline
Portfolio Management
15. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Project Calendar
Risk Register
Scope Baseline
16. 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.
Phase Gate
Program Management
Early Finish Date
Path Convergence
17. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Variance Analysis
Effort
Schedule Management Plan
Cost Management Plan
18. 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
Summary Activity
Project Schedule
Critical Path
19. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Assumption
Data Date
Risk Mitigation
Critical Path Activity
20. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Rolling Wave Planning
Milestone
Early Finish Date
Project Management Plan
21. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Trigger Condition
Level of Effort
Scope Management Plan
Activity
22. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Lead
Schedule Variance
Acceptance Criteria
Project Management
23. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Lead
Percent Complete
Data Date
Three-Point Estimate
24. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Schedule Management Plan
Critical Chain Method
Cost Variance
Performing Organization
25. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Estimate to Complete
Risk
Project Phase
Lessons Learned
26. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Project Manager
Human Resource Plan
Finish-to-Start
Critical Path
27. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
S-Curve Analysis
Human Resource Plan
Total Float
Risk Transference
28. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Requirements Management Plan
Crashing
Critical Chain Method
Pessimistic Duration
29. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Project Charter
Change Request
Milestone
Optimistic Duration
30. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Lead
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Logical Relationship
Path Divergence
31. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Project Management Plan
Bottom-up Estimating
Product Life Cycle
Progressive Elaboration
32. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Activity
Path Convergence
Communication Management Plan
Staffing Management Plan
33. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Parametric Estimating
Estimate to Complete
Constraint
Project Manager
34. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Stakeholder
Project Scope
Variance at Completion
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
35. 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.
Project
Backward Pass
Fast Tracking
Effort
36. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Control Account
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Risk Category
Milestone
37. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Bottom-up Estimating
Code of Accounts
Effort
Project Schedule
38. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Project Manager
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Schedule Variance
Path Divergence
39. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Decision Tree Analysis
Program Management Office
Effort
Constraint
40. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Constraint
Project Calendar
Code of Accounts
Project Manager
41. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Early Start Date
Start-to-Finish
Preventive Action
Schedule Management Plan
42. 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.)
Cost Variance
Earned Value Management
Discrete Effort
Program
43. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Actual Cost
Program
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Lag
44. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Analogous Estimating
Trigger Condition
Requirements Management Plan
Decomposition
45. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Resource Calendar
Estimate to Complete
Effort
Project Management Plan
46. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Pessimistic Duration
Communication Management Plan
Resource Breakdown Structure
47. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Project Calendar
Logical Relationship
Estimate at Completion
Percent Complete
48. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Variance Analysis
Predecessor Activity
Project
Corrective Action
49. 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 Charter
Apportioned Effort
Critical Path Method
Project Management Office
50. 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
Project Charter
Apportioned Effort
Free Float