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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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.
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Commincations Mgmt plan
Bottom-up estimating
Schedules - project priorities - resources
2. 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
Bottom-up Estimating
External Comm
Influence/Impact Grid
Pure Risk
3. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Free (or Total) float
Report Performance
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Breach
4. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Design of Experiments
Hygiene factors
Status Reports
Causal/econometric
5. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Cost plus percentage of cost
Mgmt Reserves
6. 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
Resource breakdown structure
Power/ Interest Grid
Referent Power
Crashing
7. ID all potential project stakeholders - Identify the potential impact or support each other stakeholder could generate and classify them ...ie the grids - Assess how key stakeholders are likley to react or respond in various situations
Work Authorization System
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
8. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Root cause analysis
Stakeholder Analysis
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Work Package
9. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Mgmt by Objectives
Scope Baseline
ISO 3 Steps
10. Communication up and down the organization
Create WBS
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Vertical Comm
Level of Scope development
11. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Root cause analysis
Project management and quality
Variance Analysis
Offical
12. 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
RAM charts
Variance Analysis
External Comm
Confronting/ Problem solving
13. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Expectancy Theory
Risk Triggers
Milestone Schedule
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
14. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Phase results are verified and documented
Business Risk
90%
Finish to Start (Most common)
15. 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
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Root cause analysis
Rolling Wave Planning
16. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Stakeholder Analysis
Closing the project
Run of Seven Rule
Status Reports
17. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Facilitator
Cost plus percentage of cost
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Variance Analysis
18. 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 leveling
Run Chart
Plan Communication
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
19. 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
Organization Breakdown Structure
Resource breakdown structure
Facilitator
Pareto Diagram
20. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Critical Path Method
Horizontal Comm
Total Quality Management TQM
Scope Baseline
21. 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
Team development Life Cycle
Expert Power
Scope Baseline
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
22. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Risk breakdown structure
Smoothing/Accommodating
23. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
6 sigma
Zero duration
Verbal and Non-verbal
ISO 3 Steps
24. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Project Slack
Expert Power
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
6 sigma
25. 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
Power/Influence Grid
Rolling Wave Planning
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Penalty Power
26. Used to track technical performance such as how well something works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or budget - respectively
Life-cycle costing
Change Control System
Sample Testing
Run Chart
27. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Secondary Risk
Mutual Exclusivity
Forcing
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
28. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Critical Path Method
Develop Human Resource Plan
Smoothing/Accommodating
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
29. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Rolling Wave Planning
A Lag
Finish to Finish
Summary Schdule
30. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Work Authorization System
Verbal and Non-verbal
31. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Salience Model
Project Selection
A lead
32. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Cost of Quality
Nonconformance
External Contraints
Concept of the Halo Theory
33. Type of Mgmt style that tries to find a common goal when there is a disagreement. This style is ideal when there are varying technical opinions or disagreement among resources managers
Mediator
A Lag
Work around
Risk Register
34. 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
Crashing
Elements of scope
Distribute Information
Work around
35. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Time series method
Indentify Risk
Causal/econometric
LAG
36. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Work Authorization System
Develop Project Team
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Free (or Total) float
37. 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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38. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Time series method
Code of Accounts
Controlling communication
Milestone Schedule
39. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
The 100% Rule
Time series method
Communications requirement analysis
Pareto Diagram
40. A milestone has a ______duration
Zero duration
Code of Accounts
Risk Register
Influence/Impact grid
41. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Rolling Wave Planning
External Comm
Sigma
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
42. Conflict Solution Negotiation attempt to get everyone involved to give (concede) a little to find a common ground and resloution. It is sometimes viewed as undesirable because when everyone give something up there is a potential that the solution wil
Project Slack
Emphasis on defining scope
Compromising
Offical
43. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
External Comm
Manage Project Team
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Cost of Quality
44. Used for very large volumes of information or for very large audiences that requires the recipients to access the communication content at their own discretion - Inclued intranet sites - e-learning - and knowledge repositories
Create WBS
Finish to Finish
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Pull Communication
45. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Gold Plating
Report Performance
Mgmt by Objectives
Risk breakdown structure
46. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Make money and to protect the public
Resource leveling
Forcing
Closing the project
47. 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)
Judgemental methods
Forcing
Fast Tracking
48. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Horizontal Comm
Critical Chain Method
Business Risk
Develop Human Resource Plan
49. 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.
Sigma
Charateristics of a project
Plan Communication
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
50. 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
Pure Risk
Work Authorization System
Oganization breakdown structure
Start to Start