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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Team development Life Cycle
Distribute Information
Change Control System
FORMAL Communication
2. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Elements of scope
Charateristics of a project
ISO 3 Steps
Compromising
3. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Fast Tracking
Level of Scope development
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
FORMAL Communication
4. 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
Approved Change
Mediator
Business Risk
Contingency Reserves
5. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Sigma
Root cause analysis
Start to Finsh
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
6. 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
Project Scope Statement
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Bottom-up estimating
Run of Seven Rule
7. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Residual Risk
The 100% Rule
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Work around
8. 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
Bottom-up Estimating
Risk Breakdown Structure
Charateristics of a project
Indentify Risk
9. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Variance Analysis
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Level of Scope development
Pareto Diagram
10. 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.
Contingency Reserves
Referent Power
Approved Change
PMIS
11. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Scatter Diagram
Stakeholder Analysis
Concept of the Halo Theory
Acquire Project Team
12. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Charismatic
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Project management and quality
Bill of materials
13. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Coaching
Project Scope Statement
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
14. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Emphasis on defining scope
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Scheduling
Total Quality Management TQM
15. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Business Risk
16. 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
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Expert Power
Pareto Diagram
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
17. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Bill of materials
Visionary
A Lag
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
18. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Develop Human Resource Plan
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
FORMAL Communication
Indentify Stakholders
19. 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
Oganization breakdown structure
n *(n -1) /2
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
20. Type of communication method between two or more parties performing a multidirectional exchange of information. It is the most efficient way to ensure a common understanding by all participants on specified topics - and inclues meetings - and phones
Sigma
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Interactive Communication
Impact
21. Used with sceduling enviroments in which a forward pass establishes the easrliest the activities can start (ES) and finish (EF) and a backward pass establishes the latest the activites can start (LS) and finish (LF)
Vertical Comm
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Critical Path Method
Pure Risk
22. 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
Risk Owner
Elements of scope
Smoothing/Accommodating
23. A milestone has a ______duration
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Penalty Power
Zero duration
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
24. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Activity List
Residual Risk
FORMAL Communication
Withdrawing/Avoiding
25. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Sample Testing
Communications requirement analysis
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
A Lag
26. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Closing the project
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Conformance
27. 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
Develop Project Team
Referent Power
Change Control Board
Schedules - project priorities - resources
28. 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
Bottom-up Estimating
RAM charts
Root cause analysis
Forcing
29. 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
Director
Resource leveling
Start to Start
Project Scope Statment
30. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Statistical Independence
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Develop Project Charter
31. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
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32. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Project management and quality
Create WBS
Communications requirement analysis
Influence/Impact Grid
33. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Residual Risk
Develop Project Charter
Bottom-up Estimating
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
34. 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
Elements of scope
Confronting/ Problem solving
Strong Matrix
Smoothing/Accommodating
35. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Work Authorization System
Influence/Impact grid
Cost of Quality
Mgmt Reserves
36. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Finish to Finish
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Concept of the Halo Theory
Confronting/ Problem solving
37. 3 main components of the communication model
Salience Model
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Impact
Delphi Technique
38. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Plan Risk Mgmt
Free (or Total) float
Penalty Power
Forcasting
39. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Root cause analysis
Contingency Reserves
90%
Causal/econometric
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.
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Risk Breakdown Structure
Business Risk
Plan Communication
41. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Communications requirement analysis
Mgmt Reserves
Business Risk
Project Scope Statement
42. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Coaching
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Report Performance
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
43. 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
Work Package
Power/Influence Grid
Pareto Diagram
44. Type of communication method sent to a specific recipient who needs to know the information - This method ensures that the communication is distributed but does not certify that it actually reached or was understood by the intended audience Includes
Organization Breakdown Structure
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Root cause analysis
Push Communications
45. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Time series method
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Pull Communication
46. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
n *(n -1) /2
Horizontal Comm
Change Control System
Project Scope Statement
47. Factors that limits project options such as the number of people available - amount of time or money available to finish the job or other resources or assest issues
Contraints
Brainstorming
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Work around
48. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Conformance
Emphasis on defining scope
Sigma
Project Selection
49. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Change Control Board
Salience Model
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Develop Project Charter
50. 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.
Forcasting
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Design of Experiments
Smoothing and withdrawal
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