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1. A management control point where the resource plans - scope - schedule and actual cost are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Recruitment Practices
Procurement file
Control Account
Data precision
2. 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
Control Account
Administer procurements
Procurement audits
Matrix Organization
3. 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
Organization Chart
Project Quality Management
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Tolerances vs. Control limits
4. Process to monitor the status of the project to update the project budget and manage changes to the cost baseline.
Quality Audit
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Identify Stakeholders
Manage Stakeholder
5. A modification of a logical relationship that allows an acceleration of the successor activity. A negative lead is equivalent to a positive lag.
Facilitated Workshops
Sequence Activities
Lead
Risk Consequences
6. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Corrective Action
Risk
Cost-reimbursable contracts
7. Calculates the theoretical early start and finish dates - and late start and finish dates - for all activities without regard to any resource limitations. This is done by performing a forward and backward pass analysis through the schedule network.
Project Selection Methods
Work Results
Coding Structure
Critical Path Method
8. 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.
Schedule updates
Benchmarking
Additional Risk Response Planning
Simulation
9. Lists or files maintained with information on prospective sellers. These lists will generally have information on relevant past experience and other characteristics of the prospective sellers
Lead
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Functional Organization
Qualified seller lists
10. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming item into compliance with requirements or specifications. It is a frequent cause of project overruns in most application areas.
Cost-reimbursable contracts
Performance Reviews
Rework
Control Costs
11. The process of approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources
Fast Tracking
Risk Consequences
Buyer-Seller relationship
Estimate Activity Durations
12. Processes and procedures developed for the closing or canceling of projects.
Inspection
Verify Scope
Free Float
Project
13. A -specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives.
Corrective Action
Project Procurement Management
Templates
Schedule Baseline
14. The calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal - such as the budget at completion (BAC) or the estimate at completion (EAC). It is the ratio of 'remaining work' to the 'fu
Flowcharts
Project Communications Management
Control Charts
Project Stakeholders
15. The conclusion of a project phase is marked by a review of both key deliverables and project performance till date to determine if the project should continue into its next phase and detect and correct errors cost-effectively. These phase end reviews
Organizational Policies
Procurement Documents
Templates
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
16. Incurred for the exclusive benefit of the project (e.g. - salaries of full-time project staff).
Observations
Direct costs
Stakeholder Analysis
Configuration Management System
17. 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
Requirements Documentation
Simulation
Control Charts
Procurement resources
18. 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
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Estimate Activity Resources
Estimate Costs
Triggers
19. A modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity.
Make-or-buy analysis
Assumptions
Lag
Risk Register
20. A formal or informal approach to obtain information from stakeholders by talking to them directly
Secondary Risks
Resource Calendar
Interviews
Plan Risk Responses
21. Describes how the procurement processes (from developing procurement documentation through contract closure) will be managed
Define Scope
Procurement Management Plan
Procurement file
Project Plan
22. Hybrid type of contractual agreements that contain aspects of both cost-reimbursable and fixed- price contracts. Some characteristics: · Open-ended - i.e. - full value of the agreement and the exact quantity of items to be delivered may not be define
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
Project Management
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Bidder Conferences
23. Estimating or predicting future project status and progress based on knowledge and information available at the time of forecasting.
Quantitatively based durations
Control Scope
Forecasting
Constraints
24. Policies - guidelines and procedures that can help the project management team with various aspects of organizational planning.
Perform Quality Control
Training
Focus groups
Human Resource Practices
25. 1. Performed by people; 2. Constrained by limited resources; 3. Planned - excuted - monitored - and controlled; 4. Ultimate goal is to achieve organizational objectives or stratregic plans
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Similarities between Operations and Projects
Group Decision Making Techniques
Product description
26. Process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline
Probability and impact matrix
Deliverable
Control Schedule
Bottom-up Estimating
27. Includes identified risks - risk owners - results of Perform qualitative risk analysis process - agreed upon response strategies - etc.
Code of Accounts
Proposal
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Risk Register
28. 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
Resource Calendar
Project Assumption Testing
Verify Scope
Benchmarking
29. Clarify the structure - requirements and other terms of the purchases so that mutual agreement can be reached prior to signing the contract.
Corrective Action
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Identify Stakeholders
Procurement negotiations
30. Process of formally authorizing a new project or the next phase of an existing project; links the project to the ongoing work of the performing organization
Organization Breakdown Structure
Parametric Estimating
Project Charter
Initiation
31. Documents the characteristics of the product - result - or service which the project is undertaken to create.
Analogous Estimating (top-down)
Report Performance
Acquire Project Team
Product Description
32. Involves setting a fixed total price for a defined product or service to be provided.
Constraints
Fixed- price contracts
Report Performance
Quality Improvement
33. 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.
Critical Path Method
Contract Change Control System
Flowcharts
Work Authorization System
34. Process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller - and awarding a contract
Project Planning Methodology
Scope Change Control System
Conduct Procurements
Bottom-up Estimating
35. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project
Risk Consequences
Requirements Management Plan
Perform Quality Control
Inspection
36. The process of analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements - and schedule constrains to create the project schedule
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Templates
Simulation
Develop Schedule
37. 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.
Quality Assurance
Contract Change Control System
Recruitment Practices
Activity List
38. The document that sets out the format and establishes the activities and criteria for planning - structuring - and controlling the project costs. The cost management plan is contained in - or is a subsidiary plan of - the project management plan.
Differences between Operations and Project
Cost Management Plan
Performance Reviews
Checklists
39. Process of changing the schedule baseline. It is done when schedule delays are very severe - and the project schedule has to be completely changed.
Secondary Risks
Re-baselining
Templates
Project Procurement Management
40. The process of determining project stakeholders' information needs and defining a communication approach.
Checklists
Plan Communications
Project Procurement Management
Regulation
41. Process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project.
Plan Risk Management
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Project Life Cycle
Procurement performance reviews
42. 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
Prioritized list of quantified risks
Contract
Communications management plan
Identify Risks
43. 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.
Procurement negotiations
Expert Judgment
Verify Scope
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
44. The process to identify and document project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - report relationships - and create a staffing management plan.
Trend Analysis
Develop Human Resource Plan
Simulation
Inspection
45. Used to identify project and product requirements; some of the techniques used are: Brainstorming - Nominal group technique - The Delphi technique - Idea/mind mapping - and Affinity diagram.
Product description
Focus groups
Group Creativity Techniques
Risk Categories
46. Collection of generally sequential project phases.
Change Requests
Quantitatively based durations
Project Life Cycle
Re-baselining
47. Responses to emerging risks that was previously unidentified or accepted. These were not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event.
Workaround plans
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Quality
Develop Human Resource Plan
48. Describes the procurement item in sufficient detail to allow prospective sellers to determine if they are capable of providing the products - services - or results.
Scope Statement
Risk management policies
Interviews
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
49. The policies - guidelines - or procedures that govern the recruitment of staff.
Determine Budget
Recruitment Practices
Project Risk Management
Project Files
50. Deliverable- oriented grouping of project components that organizes and defines the total scope of the project - work not in the WBS is outside the scope of the project.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Bottom-up Estimating
Analogous Estimating (top-down)
Constraints