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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. PM and team work to create a complete estimate from the bottom(activity level) up and roll it up to the total estimate. Main advantage - detail accuracy. Main dis ad - can take time to create
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Gold Plating
Create WBS
Bottom-up estimating
2. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Smoothing/Accommodating
Interactive Communication
FORMAL Communication
Contraints
3. Breakdown structure to help dreak down the risk on a project. It helps create a brainstorming type of environment that allows the team to identify and categorize additional risk. Similar to WBS but the team creates it.
Cost plus percentage of cost
Risk Breakdown Structure
RAM charts
Develop Human Resource Plan
4. 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
People responsible for quality
Push Communications
Develop Human Resource Plan
5. 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
ISO 3 Steps
Distribute Information
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Team development Life Cycle
6. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Power/Influence Grid
Benchmarking
Change Control System
7. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Pareto Diagram
Activity List
A Lag
Start to Finsh
8. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Charismatic
Oganization breakdown structure
Communications requirement analysis
Facilitator
9. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Coaching
Perks
Project Selection
Crashing
10. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Start to Start
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Time series method
Statistical Independence
11. Conflict Solution where there is an action in which a direct order to resolve something is given. It is typically the worst type of conflict resolution.
Penalty Power
Forcing
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Plan Risk Mgmt
12. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
Perks
People responsible for quality
Team development Life Cycle
6 sigma
13. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Director
Total Quality Management TQM
Concept of the Halo Theory
ISO 3 Steps
14. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Cost of Quality
Change Control Board
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Written or oral
15. One choice does not include any other choices
Finish to Start (Most common)
Power/Influence Grid
Mutual Exclusivity
Demings' 14 principles of Management
16. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Change Control Board
Contingency Reserves
Work Authorization System
Forcasting
17. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Work around
Fringe
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Gold Plating
18. 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
Salience Model
Project Scope Statement
Change Control System
Horizontal Comm
19. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Assumptions
Critical Chain Method
Risk breakdown structure
Indentify Stakholders
20. 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
Manage Project Team
Summary Schdule
Compromising
21. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Distribute Information
Brainstorming
Expert Power
Judgemental methods
22. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Fringe
Requested Changes
A Lag
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
23. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Horizontal Comm
Forcing
Milestone Schedule
Project Selection
24. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Free (or Total) float
Work Package
Expert Power
Resource breakdown structure
25. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Level of Scope development
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Charismatic
Project Selection
26. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Critical Chain Method
Nonconformance
Free (or Total) float
27. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Free (or Total) float
Root cause analysis
A Lag
Risk Triggers
28. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Mgmt by Objectives
Bottom-up estimating
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Perks
29. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Organization Breakdown Structure
Team development Life Cycle
Hygiene factors
PMIS
30. Amount of time that an activity can slip or be delayed without delaying the finish date of the project (or activity or published project completion date)
LAG
Requested Changes
PMIS
Referent Power
31. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Critical Chain Method
FORMAL Communication
Start to Start
Power/ Interest Grid
32. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Critical Chain Method
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
33. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Autocratic
Charismatic
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
34. Communication formula
n *(n -1) /2
Breach
Written or oral
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
35. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Status Reports
Push Communications
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
36. Commuincation within the project
Start to Start
Internal comm
Pure Risk
Contraints
37. 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
Visionary
Manage Project Team
Elements of scope
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
38. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Variance Analysis
Scope Baseline
Cost of Quality
39. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Progress Report
Work around
Report Performance
Indentify Risk
40. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Project management and quality
Analogous or Top down Estimating
6 sigma
41. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Work Authorization System
Fast Tracking
Bill of materials
Delphi Technique
42. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Emphasis on defining scope
External Comm
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Activity List
43. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Risk breakdown structure
ISO 3 Steps
Work around
Power/Influence Grid
44. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Referent Power
Residual Risk
PMIS
n *(n -1) /2
45. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Horizontal Comm
Plan Risk Mgmt
Contingency Reserves
46. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Business Risk
Scope Baseline
Fringe
Rolling Wave Planning
47. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Finish to Start (Most common)
Expert Power
Verbal and Non-verbal
Root cause analysis
48. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Plan Risk Mgmt
Bottom-up Estimating
Stakeholder Analysis
Report Performance
49. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Run Chart
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Progress Report
Indentify Risk
50. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Approved Change
Monte Carlo Technique
Residual Risk
Organization Breakdown Structure