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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Portfolio Balancing
Project Charter
Change Request
Organizational Breakdown Structure
2. 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.
Constraint
Total Float
Defect Repair
Scope Creep
3. 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.
Milestone
Project
Data Date
Fast Tracking
4. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any successor or violating a schedule constraint.
Assumption
Project Management Plan
Requirement
Free Float
5. 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.
Performing Organization
Corrective Action
Procurement Management Plan
Bottom-up Estimating
6. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Project Scope
Procurement Management Plan
Risk Category
Apportioned Effort
7. 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.)
Discrete Effort
Project Management
Requirements Management Plan
Project Schedule
8. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Budget at Completion
Portfolio
Resource Breakdown Structure
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
9. 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
Early Start Date
Early Finish Date
Discrete Effort
10. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Program Management Office
Defect Repair
Project Charter
Risk Breakdown Structure
11. 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.
Schedule Variance
Organizational Process Assets
Program Management
Baseline
12. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Project Manager
Preventive Action
Total Float
Bottom-up Estimating
13. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
To-Complete Performance Index
Summary Activity
Communication Management Plan
Project Schedule
14. In the critical path method - the latest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can finish based on the schedule network logic - the project completion date - and any schedule constraints.
Parametric Estimating
Late Finish Date
Path Convergence
Cost Variance
15. 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.
Start-to-Start
Decision Tree Analysis
Assumption
Scope Baseline
16. 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.
Program
Control Account
Risk
Bottom-up Estimating
17. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Early Start Date
Start-to-Finish
Progressive Elaboration
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
18. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Cost Management Plan
Resource Breakdown Structure
Lessons Learned
Requirements Management Plan
19. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Early Finish Date
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Portfolio Management
Risk Category
20. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Budget at Completion
Change Control System
Earned Value
Risk Mitigation
21. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Backward Pass
Control Account
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Predecessor Activity
22. 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.
Project Scope Statement
Program Management
Progressive Elaboration
Communication Management Plan
23. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Variance at Completion
Risk
Assumption
Precedence Diagramming Method
24. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Project Phase
Finish-to-Finish
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Gantt Chart
25. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Rolling Wave Planning
Risk Breakdown Structure
Critical Path Method
Project Schedule Network Diagram
26. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Opportunity
Baseline
Free Float
Project Management Plan
27. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Earned Value
Estimate to Complete
Quality Management Plan
Late Start Date
28. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Staffing Management Plan
Risk Transference
Communication Management Plan
Activity
29. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Cost Performance Index
Crashing
Project Management
Actual Cost
30. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Corrective Action
Defect Repair
Scope Creep
31. 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.
Assumption
Phase Gate
Deliverable
Project Schedule Network Diagram
32. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Opportunity
Progressive Elaboration
Rolling Wave Planning
Parametric Estimating
33. 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
Procurement Management Plan
Acceptance Criteria
34. A critical path method technique for calculating the early start and early finish dates by working forward through the schedule model from the project start date or a given point in time.
Project Management Office
Forward Pass
Defect Repair
Scope Creep
35. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Change Request
Stakeholder
Resource Calendar
Budget at Completion
36. 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
Estimate to Complete
Lessons Learned
Critical Path
Level of Effort
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.
Program Management
Risk Acceptance
Risk Category
Early Start Date
38. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Risk Acceptance
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Path Convergence
Fast Tracking
39. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Resource Leveling
Pessimistic Duration
Communication Management Plan
Apportioned Effort
40. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Change Control System
Lessons Learned
Logical Relationship
Level of Effort
41. An individual - group - or organization who may affect - be affected by - or perceive itself to be affected by a decision - activity - or outcome of a project - program - or portfolio.
Risk Acceptance
Level of Effort
Scope Creep
Stakeholder
42. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Threat
Schedule Compression
Estimate at Completion
Successor Activity
43. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Change Control Board
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Human Resource Plan
Bottom-up Estimating
44. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Program Management
Lead
Constraint
What-If Sce
45. 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.)
Opportunity
Level of Effort
Requirements Management Plan
Apportioned Effort
46. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Project Management Office
Optimistic Duration
Project Scope
Risk Avoidance
47. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Risk Register
Preventive Action
S-Curve Analysis
Planned Value
48. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Schedule Management Plan
Path Convergence
Planned Value
Project Schedule Network Diagram
49. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Estimate at Completion
What-If Sce
Optimistic Duration
Schedule Compression
50. 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
Cost Performance Index
Apportioned Effort
Milestone
Schedule Management Plan