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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Type of power comes from an attitude or presence that a person has and the corresponding type of influence this person has on the team. It could also come from someone who aligns with other people in a powerful posistion at the company or on the team
Referent Power
n *(n -1) /2
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Crashing
2. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Cost plus percentage of cost
Requested Changes
Controlling communication
Code of Accounts
3. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Mediator
Contingency Reserves
Bottom-up Estimating
Penalty Power
4. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Root cause analysis
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
5. Close out any contracts w/ outside vendors - Deliver any required reports associated w/ closure (OPA updates) - Complete any close project or phase activites - Performed lessons learned - Complete the archives of any project files (OPA updates) - Rel
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Pure Risk
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
6. Describes when and how human resource requirments will be met. It is part of the Human Reources plan wich in turn is part of the Project Managment plan
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Work Authorization System
Cost plus percentage of cost
7. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Bill of materials
n *(n -1) /2
Gold Plating
Create WBS
8. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Just-in-time (JIT)
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Facilitator
Develop Project Team
9. Formal or informal system used in project mgmt to ensure that work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
Work Authorization System
Hygiene factors
Progress Report
Elements of scope
10. Shows the type of resources broken down
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Resource breakdown structure
Finish to Start (Most common)
Design of Experiments
11. Communication that is not on the record
Milestone Schedule
Crashing
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Unoffical Comm
12. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Milestone Schedule
Risk Triggers
Salience Model
Vertical Comm
13. Shows a reporting relationship between the resources in a organization. This structure is typically shown in company division - departments and group. Typicall is does not show details related to project organization and work
Stakeholder Analysis
Scheduling
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Organization Breakdown Structure
14. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Level of Scope development
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Collaborating
Mutual Exclusivity
15. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Influence/Impact Grid
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Cost plus percentage of cost
Start to Finsh
16. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Code of Accounts
People responsible for quality
Sigma
Create WBS
17. Inputs to many process because they deal w/ variables external to the project such as government requlations and market conditions. Examples are org structure govt standards - personnel - policies business market
Mgmt Reserves
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Project Scope Statment
Scope Baseline
18. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Crashing
Cost of Quality
Team development Life Cycle
Charismatic
19. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Code of Accounts
Bottom-up Estimating
Team development Life Cycle
Strong Matrix
20. Tool you can use initially in a project to evaluate what could potentially cause defects. You can use it during the project to review symptoms to determine the real problem (continue to ask questions until the root cause is determine)
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Influence/Impact Grid
Total Quality Management TQM
Status Reports
21. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Influence/Impact grid
Hygiene factors
RAM charts
22. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Progress Report
Finish to Finish
Forcasting
Cost plus percentage of cost
23. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel
Resource breakdown structure
Expectancy Theory
Power/ Interest Grid
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
24. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Autocratic
Risk breakdown structure
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Confronting/ Problem solving
25. 3 main components of the communication model
Indentify Risk
Internal comm
Communications requirement analysis
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
26. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
A lead
Charismatic
Business Risk
Commincations Mgmt plan
27. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Time series method
ISO 3 Steps
Cost plus percentage of cost
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
28. A schedule network analysis technique applied to a schedule that has already been analyzed by the critical path method. It can be used when shared or critical required resources are only available at certain time - are only available in limited quan
Resource breakdown structure
Resource leveling
FORMAL Communication
Indentify Stakholders
29. Formal or informal system used in project management to ensure that the work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
Plan Risk Mgmt
A lead
Work Authorization System
Critical Path Method
30. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Total Quality Management TQM
Status Reports
Strong Matrix
Acquire Project Team
31. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Gold Plating
Influence/Impact Grid
Oganization breakdown structure
Implied warranty
32. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Milestone Schedule
Acquire Project Team
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Risk Breakdown Structure
33. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Start to Start
Risk Register
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
The 100% Rule
34. Generally seen as the founding basis for total quality managment - Main Points are: 1. be proactive - not reactive 2. Utilize leadership and accountability 3. Measure and strive for constant improvement
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35. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Risk Register
Mgmt by Objectives
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Monte Carlo Technique
36. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Written or oral
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Expert Power
People responsible for quality
37. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Run Chart
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Statistical Independence
Salience Model
38. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Resource leveling
Work Authorization System
Strong Matrix
Status Reports
39. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Report Performance
Salience Model
FORMAL Communication
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
40. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Plan Risk Mgmt
Sample Testing
PMIS
41. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Impact
Resource breakdown structure
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Brainstorming
42. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Pareto Diagram
Emphasis on defining scope
Director
Critical Path Method
43. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Status Reports
PMIS
Resource leveling
44. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Vertical Comm
Bill of materials
Work Authorization System
Stakeholder Analysis
45. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Benchmarking
Critical Chain Method
Approved Change
Milestone list
46. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Causal/econometric
Change Control System
Plan Risk Mgmt
47. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Manage Project Team
Closing the project
Push Communications
Residual Risk
48. Inputs to many processes that deal with variables external to the project - such as imfomation systems and company policies and procedures. They can include process definitions - templates - organizations communications needs
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Reward Power
Approved Change
Free (or Total) float
49. Chart used Project Management on the left - Talbe of information (Usually activities - dates - resources etc) on Right - horizontal bars showing when those activities are occuring use it to track the day-to-day.
Forcasting
Cost plus percentage of cost
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
50. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Forcasting
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Crashing
Organization Process Assests (OPA)