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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. 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.
Program
Early Start Date
Parametric Estimating
Procurement Management Plan
2. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Sponsor
To-Complete Performance Index
Stakeholder
Budget at Completion
3. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Communication Management Plan
Apportioned Effort
Risk Breakdown Structure
Organizational Process Assets
4. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Schedule Variance
Program
Rolling Wave Planning
Constraint
5. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Preventive Action
Defect Repair
Resource Calendar
Stakeholder
6. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Variance at Completion
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Estimate to Complete
Schedule Compression
7. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Risk Mitigation
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Finish-to-Finish
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
8. A group of potential causes of risk.
Secondary Risk
Risk Category
Scope Baseline
Organizational Process Assets
9. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Risk Acceptance
Portfolio
WBS Dictionary
Crashing
10. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Code of Accounts
Three-Point Estimate
Control Account
Performing Organization
11. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Portfolio Balancing
Risk Register
Data Date
Most Likely Duration
12. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Sponsor
Trigger Condition
Progressive Elaboration
Late Start Date
13. 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.
Risk Avoidance
Program Management Office
Stakeholder
Fast Tracking
14. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Scope Baseline
Quality Management Plan
Secondary Risk
Preventive Action
15. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Earned Value
Defect Repair
Three-Point Estimate
Risk Transference
16. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Procurement Management Plan
Project
Critical Chain Method
Decomposition
17. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Critical Path
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Risk Management Plan
Decomposition
18. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Early Finish Date
Change Control System
Organizational Process Assets
Opportunity
19. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Preventive Action
Project Phase
Start-to-Finish
Precedence Diagramming Method
20. 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
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Risk Mitigation
Schedule Baseline
21. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Requirement
Three-Point Estimate
Variance Analysis
Project Management Plan
22. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Baseline
Pessimistic Duration
Data Date
Earned Value
23. 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.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Critical Path
Three-Point Estimate
Baseline
24. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Late Start Date
Product Life Cycle
Cost Variance
Project Scope
25. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Control Account
Progressive Elaboration
Schedule Performance Index
Corrective Action
26. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
S-Curve Analysis
Cost Management Plan
Most Likely Duration
Project Manager
27. 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.
Scope Creep
Activity
Resource Leveling
Path Convergence
28. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Risk Management Plan
Total Float
Procurement Management Plan
29. 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
Critical Path
Apportioned Effort
Risk Management Plan
30. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Predecessor Activity
Portfolio Management
Schedule Performance Index
Risk Acceptance
31. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Activity
Decomposition
Project Manager
Trigger Condition
32. 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.
Finish-to-Start
Project Charter
Risk Register
Late Start Date
33. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Variance at Completion
Phase Gate
Schedule Compression
Trigger Condition
34. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Change Control Board
Requirements Management Plan
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Level of Effort
35. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Estimate at Completion
Variance at Completion
Effort
Requirements Management Plan
36. 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.
Late Finish Date
Risk Category
Scope Baseline
Cost Variance
37. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
To-Complete Performance Index
Scope Creep
Risk Mitigation
Lessons Learned
38. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Free Float
Project Manager
Project Schedule
Activity
39. 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.
Cost Management Plan
Project Manager
Staffing Management Plan
Baseline
40. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Critical Path Activity
Path Divergence
Human Resource Plan
41. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Three-Point Estimate
Gantt Chart
Program Management
Schedule Performance Index
42. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Lag
Forward Pass
Early Finish Date
Change Control
43. 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
Risk Mitigation
Organizational Breakdown Structure
44. 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.
Schedule Compression
Schedule Baseline
Trigger Condition
Start-to-Finish
45. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Rolling Wave Planning
Cost Management Plan
Portfolio
Project Schedule Network Diagram
46. 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.
Actual Cost
Rolling Wave Planning
Start-to-Start
Gantt Chart
47. 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.
Program
Baseline
Progressive Elaboration
Lag
48. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Risk
Schedule Performance Index
Phase Gate
Estimate at Completion
49. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Acceptance Criteria
Performing Organization
Precedence Diagramming Method
Schedule Model
50. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Project Manager
Lag
Finish-to-Finish
Estimate to Complete