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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Strong Matrix
Contraints
Project Scope Statment
Risk Triggers
2. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
Implied warranty
Expert Power
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Scheduling
3. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Crashing
Fringe
Manage Project Team
Requested Changes
4. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Perks
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Residual Risk
5. What the project consist of - What is involved to create the project - What it is expected to do when complete ( to avoid confusion) What is the ? What are the elements
Elements of scope
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Plan Risk Mgmt
Acquire Project Team
6. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Verbal and Non-verbal
Bottom-up estimating
Statistical Independence
Finish to Start (Most common)
7. Type of Mgmt style where the PM sees what can be - where the company or team needs to go. Focusing more on the big picture of the company - with others focusing on the day to day events.
Judgemental methods
Cost of Quality
Change Control System
Visionary
8. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Statistical Independence
Plan Communication
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Develop Project Team
9. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
FORMAL Communication
Forcing
Offical
Scheduling
10. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Business Risk
Change Control System
LAG
RAM charts
11. 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
Mediator
Contraints
Resource leveling
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
12. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Resource leveling
Resource breakdown structure
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Smoothing/Accommodating
13. Used for communication and information distribution on the project - not necessarily a hightech system but what ever is used for project communication on the project. Normally a mixture of technology and non-technology.
Resource breakdown structure
Rolling Wave Planning
Critical Chain Method
PMIS
14. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Indentify Risk
Impact
Fringe
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
15. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Vertical Comm
Power/ Interest Grid
Reward Power
Forcing
16. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Project Scope Statment
Work Package
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
3 Processes of quality managment
17. An inventory managment process that lets a company have little or no excess inventory in stock- Ideally a stocks ZERO inventory with supplies arriving only when needed for the products being built
Just-in-time (JIT)
Controlling communication
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
18. Plan defines the communication needs of the stakeholders - the communications format and frequency and who delivers them. It can include reports meeting scehdules - changes process and contact information for the team.
Cost of Quality
Commincations Mgmt plan
Autocratic
Code of Accounts
19. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Plan Risk Mgmt
Smoothing and withdrawal
20. 1 Has a specific purpose 2. Creates specifi results 3 Has a definite start and finish dates 4. Is temporary 5. Could be progressively elaborated
Director
Forcing
Charateristics of a project
Offical
21. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
n *(n -1) /2
Root cause analysis
Influence/Impact Grid
22. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
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23. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Work Authorization System
Variance Analysis
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Just-in-time (JIT)
24. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Work Package
Expert Power
Charateristics of a project
Coaching
25. The Process of prioritizing risk for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact - The Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives
Charismatic
Plan Risk Mgmt
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Verbal and Non-verbal
26. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Hygiene factors
Milestone Schedule
Develop Project Charter
27. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Critical Chain Method
Bottom-up estimating
Benchmarking
Summary Schdule
28. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Scope Baseline
Organization Breakdown Structure
Indentify Risk
29. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Nonconformance
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Mutual Exclusivity
Acquire Project Team
30. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Closing the project
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Assumptions
31. Document that develops and helps attain buy-in on a common interpretation of the project scope. It can describe what it is - as wel as what is not - in the project
Fringe
Project Scope Statment
Risk Breakdown Structure
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
32. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Collaborating
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Milestone Schedule
33. Play a huge role in planning - When you perform project management part of the concept of Planning is to deal with items unkown. You must make assumptions for scheduling and bugeting. In most cases as the project evoles - you learn more about it.
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Assumptions
Horizontal Comm
Report Performance
34. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Life-cycle costing
Director
Team development Life Cycle
35. Shows an aggregate or rolled up view of the various activites at the summary level. It gives senior management - the project management team - a picture of how long the summary level work packages are to take - and what sequence they occur
Change Control Board
Summary Schdule
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Level of Scope development
36. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Develop Project Team
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Nonconformance
37. Form - creation of the team - Storm - refers to the chaos that occurs when people start working together - Norm - behavior starts to normalize - Perform - activity that transpires as the team works as a team instead of solo - Adjourn - work is compl
Power/ Interest Grid
Free (or Total) float
Team development Life Cycle
Level of Scope development
38. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Start to Start
Milestone list
Conformance
Interactive Communication
39. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
FORMAL Communication
Implied warranty
Facilitator
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
40. When an activity cannot be estimated with a resonable degree of confidence the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail. Estimates are made to the smallest incremental level need and then aggregated into a total quantity for each of th
3 Processes of quality managment
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Work Authorization System
Bottom-up Estimating
41. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Push Communications
42. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Smoothing and withdrawal
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Requested Changes
Just-in-time (JIT)
43. Responsiblity Assignment Matrix The tool lets the project team know who is involved in each area and what they are responsible for an in what area
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Smoothing and withdrawal
RAM charts
Approved Change
44. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Scatter Diagram
Visionary
Project Scope Statement
Secondary Risk
45. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Total Quality Management TQM
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Pure Risk
Judgemental methods
46. Key tool that is a statistical method or tool - that helps identify which factors may influence specific variable of a product or process under development or in production. It lets you change many factors at once.
Requested Changes
Design of Experiments
Perks
Facilitator
47. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Push Communications
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Requested Changes
Develop Human Resource Plan
48. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Delphi Technique
Secondary Risk
Autocratic
Implied warranty
49. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Causal/econometric
Work around
Salience Model
Statistical Independence
50. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Scope Baseline
Pure Risk
Critical Path Method
Time series method