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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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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2. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
People responsible for quality
Verbal and Non-verbal
3. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Code of Accounts
Make money and to protect the public
Autocratic
Develop Project Charter
4. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Residual Risk
Influence/Impact grid
Fast Tracking
Demings' 14 principles of Management
5. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Controlling communication
Horizontal Comm
Fast Tracking
Director
6. Conflict Solution where there is an effort in which attempts are made to work out the actual problem. It is the best type of conflict resolution
Risk breakdown structure
Resource breakdown structure
Confronting/ Problem solving
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
7. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
FORMAL Communication
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Project Slack
Change Control Board
8. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Run Chart
Visionary
Schedules - project priorities - resources
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
9. 3 main components of the communication model
Manage Project Team
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Smoothing/Accommodating
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
10. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Sample Testing
Risk breakdown structure
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
11. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Mutual Exclusivity
n *(n -1) /2
Concept of the Halo Theory
Expert Power
12. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Time series method
Run Chart
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Secondary Risk
13. Provides details of the planned Scope for the project - this includes the Project Scope Statment - WBS - WBS dictionary. It is the key output in the Create WBS.
Conformance
Charismatic
Offical
Scope Baseline
14. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts
90%
Start to Start
Smoothing/Accommodating
Critical Path Method
15. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
Communications requirement analysis
6 sigma
Bottom-up estimating
Change Control System
16. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Free (or Total) float
Influence/Impact grid
Approved Change
17. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
n *(n -1) /2
Indentify Risk
Expectancy Theory
Verbal and Non-verbal
18. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Milestone list
Breach
Unoffical Comm
19. 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)
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Hygiene factors
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
20. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Charateristics of a project
Indentify Risk
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Facilitator
21. 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
Project Scope Statment
Risk breakdown structure
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Coaching
22. A milestone has a ______duration
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Zero duration
RAM charts
23. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Level of Scope development
Statistical Independence
Confronting/ Problem solving
Collaborating
24. Difference between internal and external risk
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Impact
Influence/Impact Grid
Scope Baseline
25. 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)
Implied warranty
A Lag
Make money and to protect the public
26. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
External Comm
6 sigma
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Vertical Comm
27. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Referent Power
Power/Influence Grid
RAM charts
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
28. 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
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Charateristics of a project
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
29. Concept that defines a low level of detail on the WBS for immediate work being accomplished while the work to be done in the future is only at the highlevel of decomposition in the WBS until it is soon to be started. The concept that utilizes the pro
Rolling Wave Planning
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Vertical Comm
Scheduling
30. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Expert Power
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Acquire Project Team
Develop Human Resource Plan
31. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Organization Breakdown Structure
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Charismatic
32. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Risk Triggers
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Pareto Diagram
Influence/Impact grid
33. 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
Forcing
Rolling Wave Planning
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Just-in-time (JIT)
34. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Resource leveling
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Root cause analysis
90%
35. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Project management and quality
Work around
Collaborating
36. Communication in writing or oral
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Written or oral
Develop Project Charter
Bottom-up estimating
37. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Impact
Sigma
Charateristics of a project
Conformance
38. Shows the type of resources broken down
Plan Communication
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Resource breakdown structure
Gold Plating
39. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Start to Start
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Progress Report
40. Process of determining the project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach. Who needs what information - when they need it - how it will be provided to them and by whom.
Plan Communication
Formal Power
Plan Risk Mgmt
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
41. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Emphasis on defining scope
Conformance
Assumptions
Demings' 14 principles of Management
42. A planning technique which progressively details the work as information becomes firm - and allows for less detail in later project phase where uncertainty is greater is called
Risk Breakdown Structure
Rolling Wave Planning
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
43. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
External Comm
Code of Accounts
Risk Owner
Time series method
44. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Coaching
3 Processes of quality managment
Mutual Exclusivity
Variance Analysis
45. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Penalty Power
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Contraints
Status Reports
46. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Hygiene factors
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Cost of Quality
47. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Design of Experiments
Impact
Monte Carlo Technique
Autocratic
48. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Pareto Diagram
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Sigma
49. Process that helps determine where a project fits in the big picture of planning at the company - It also could be used to address a goal-setting technique which emphasizes establishing attainable goals and monitoring for variance then adjusting as n
Conformance
Run Chart
Secondary Risk
Mgmt by Objectives
50. The narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints - and a description of work - that provides a documents basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developi
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Confronting/ Problem solving
Progress Report
Project Scope Statement