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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Variance Analysis
Risk Triggers
Start to Finsh
Mgmt Reserves
2. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Just-in-time (JIT)
Critical Path Method
FORMAL Communication
RAM charts
3. Communication formula
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Verbal and Non-verbal
n *(n -1) /2
Mutual Exclusivity
4. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Mgmt by Objectives
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Risk Breakdown Structure
5. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Approved Change
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Risk Register
Change Control System
6. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Develop Project Charter
Salience Model
Penalty Power
Requested Changes
7. 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
Work Authorization System
Crashing
90%
Risk Register
8. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes
Create WBS
Approved Change
Team development Life Cycle
Push Communications
9. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Indentify Risk
Critical Chain Method
10. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Expert Power
Fringe
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
11. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Develop Project Charter
Salience Model
Vertical Comm
12. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Statistical Independence
Manage Project Team
External Comm
13. 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
Plan Communication
Resource leveling
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Communications requirement analysis
14. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Risk Breakdown Structure
Contingency Reserves
Unoffical Comm
Smoothing/Accommodating
15. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Plan Risk Mgmt
Residual Risk
PMIS
Power/ Interest Grid
16. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Cost of Quality
Autocratic
Total Quality Management TQM
Pareto Diagram
17. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Run Chart
Critical Path Method
Verbal and Non-verbal
Reward Power
18. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Communications requirement analysis
Written or oral
Controlling communication
A lead
19. Schedule typically used in executive repoting with each milestone having a zero duration. It lack detail - generally listing only the main project milestones as diamonds instead of the Gantt bars
Milestone Schedule
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Resource breakdown structure
Expectancy Theory
20. 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.
Brainstorming
Visionary
Gold Plating
Fringe
21. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Develop Project Charter
Rolling Wave Planning
Zero duration
Judgemental methods
22. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
External Contraints
Push Communications
Code of Accounts
23. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Controlling communication
Bottom-up Estimating
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Total Quality Management TQM
24. 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
External Contraints
Resource breakdown structure
Bottom-up Estimating
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
25. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Design of Experiments
Scatter Diagram
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Work Package
26. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Risk Triggers
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Report Performance
Pareto Diagram
27. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Monte Carlo Technique
Work around
People responsible for quality
Forcasting
28. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Finish to Finish
Business Risk
29. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.
Nonconformance
External Contraints
Fast Tracking
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
30. Communication up and down the organization
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Bottom-up estimating
Vertical Comm
Team development Life Cycle
31. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Benchmarking
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
32. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Withdrawing/Avoiding
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Elements of scope
Indentify Stakholders
33. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
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34. 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
Influence/Impact grid
Summary Schdule
Statistical Independence
Brainstorming
35. 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
Indentify Stakholders
Rolling Wave Planning
A Lag
Business Risk
36. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Sample Testing
Project Slack
Change Control Board
FORMAL Communication
37. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Salience Model
Perks
Create WBS
Make money and to protect the public
38. 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
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Nonconformance
Organization Breakdown Structure
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
39. 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
Communications requirement analysis
Team development Life Cycle
Mediator
Compromising
40. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Assumptions
Start to Finsh
Charismatic
Activity List
41. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Offical
Delphi Technique
Manage Project Team
Influence/Impact Grid
42. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Mutual Exclusivity
Written or oral
Code of Accounts
Penalty Power
43. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
Closing the project
Benchmarking
Scatter Diagram
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
44. 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
Influence/Impact grid
Autocratic
Elements of scope
Causal/econometric
45. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Fringe
Status Reports
Implied warranty
Phase results are verified and documented
46. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Indentify Risk
Critical Chain Method
Concept of the Halo Theory
Code of Accounts
47. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Level of Scope development
Salience Model
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
48. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Compromising
90%
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Coaching
49. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Emphasis on defining scope
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Risk Triggers
Project Scope Statment
50. 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
Strong Matrix
Forcasting
Status Reports
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
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