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1. The document that describes the communication needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; and who is responsible for providing each type of communica






2. Any modification to the contents of the project plan or the supporting details.






3. Project team must measure itself periodically against the expectations of those outside the project.






4. Project Simulation uses a model that translates the specified detailed uncertainties of the project into their potential impact on project objectives.






5. This compares technical accomplishments during project execution with the project management plan's schedule of technical achievement.






6. The process to identify and document project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - report relationships - and create a staffing management plan.






7. A method of estimating a component of work. The work is decomposed into more detail. An estimate is prepared of what is needed to meet the requirements of each of the lower - more detailed pieces of work. These estimates are then aggregated into a to






8. Describes the processes concerned with identifying - analyzing - and responding to project risk. It includes planning risk management - identifying risks - performing qualitative risk analysis - performing quantitative risk analysis - planning risk r






9. A management control point where the resource plans - scope - schedule and actual cost are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.






10. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on the project objective.






11. A collection of formal (note: not informal) documented procedures - which defines how the documentation and project deliverables will be managed - changed and approved.






12. Processes and procedures developed for the closing or canceling of projects.






13. Involves setting a fixed total price for a defined product or service to be provided.






14. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.






15. Describes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - dissemination and ultimate disposition of project information. It includes identifying stakeholders - planning communication - distributing information - mana






16. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships - and productivity.






17. A structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project's scope of work is assigned to a person or team. It illustrates the connections between work pac






18. Includes the processes that organize - manage - and lead the project team.






19. Measuring - examining and testing undertaken to determine whether results conform to requirements; also called reviews - product reviews - audits - and walkthroughs






20. For many procurement items - the procuring organization may elect to either prepare its own independent estimate - or have an estimate of costs prepared by an outside professional estimator - to serve as a benchmark on proposed responses.






21. An authorized time-phased budget at completion (BAC) used to measure - monitor - and control overall cost performance on the project. Developed as a summation of the approved budgets by time period and is typically displayed in the form of an S-curve






22. Document that formally authorizes a project. Provides project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.






23. Risks that remain after planned responses have been implemented - as well as those that have been deliberately accepted.






24. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measure of scale such as size - weight - and complexity - from a previous - similar activity as the basis for estimating the same parameter o






25. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.






26. Describes the extent to which a risk is known or understood. Measures extent of data available as well as reliability of data.






27. Formal written notice from a person or organization responsible for contract administration - informing that the contract has been completed.






28. It is used to identify stakeholders that can provide information on detailed project and product requirements. It contains the following information regarding the identified stakeholders: identification information (name - designation - location - co






29. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables to calculate an estimate for activity parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration. An example for the cost parameter is multiplying






30. The process of determining project stakeholders' information needs and defining a communication approach.






31. Seeking to shift the consequences of the risk to a third party together with the ownership for the response.






32. Approved modifications to the project schedule that are used to manage the project






33. An applicable restriction that will affect the performance of the project/process.






34. A requirement imposed by a governmental body and its compliance is mandatory.






35. Methods used to distribute information to team members and other stakeholders.






36. An analytical technique used to determine the basic underlying reason that causes a variance or a defect or a risk. Root cause may underlie more than one variance or defect or risk. Root cause analysis is done as part of corrective action - Helps ide






37. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints.






38. Defines the process by which the procurement can be modified. It includes paperwork - tracking systems - dispute resolution procedures - and approval levels necessary for authorizing changes.






39. Projects are frequently divided into better manageable components or subprojects. Subprojects are often contracted to an external enterprise or another functional unit in the performing organization.






40. A subsequent phase of a project is sometimes begun prior to approval of the previous phase deliverables when the risks involved are deemed acceptable. This practice of overlapping phases is often called fast tracking






41. Broader view of Project Cost Management - whereby other than project costs - we consider the effect of project decisions on the cost of using the project's product.






42. A documented list of project team members - their project roles - and communication information.






43. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed.






44. This is done to take care of risks that were not identified in the risk response plan - or their impact on objectives is greater than expected.






45. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component - or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed.






46. A subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - used to illustrate or study some potential or proposed schedule condition - such as changes in preferential schedule logic or project scope.






47. Process of documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach - and identifying potential sellers.






48. The process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements - and forecasts to stakeholders.






49. If the performing organization does not have a formal contracting group - then the project team will have to supply both the resources and expertise to support procurement activities






50. They possess a blend of functional and projectized characteristics. Weak matrices maintain many of the characteristics of a functional organization - and the Project Manager's role is more that of a coordinator or expediter than that of a manager. Si