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1. Dependencies that are contractually required or those inherent in the nature of the work. Often involve physical limitations.
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Human Resource Practices
Regulation
Resource Pool Descriptions
2. Provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing common understanding of the project scope among the stakeholders
Initiation
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Scope Statement
Risk Register
3. Descriptions of which resources will be available at what times and in what patterns necessary for schedule development
Product description
Assumptions
Schedule updates
Resource Pool Descriptions
4. 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.
Project Portfolio Management
Corrective Action
Group Creativity Techniques
Project Assumption Testing
5. It is a tool and technique which is used to determine the information needs of the project stakeholders. This is a key component for planning the project's actual communications. It would assist in determining and limiting who will communicate with w
Control Scope
Performance Reports
Communication Requirements Analysis
Procurement Management Plan
6. The process to develop an approximation (estimate) of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities.
Estimate Costs
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Sensitivity Analysis
Subproject
7. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.
Forecasting
Quality Metrics
Constraints
Configuration Management System
8. Includes identified risks - risk owners - results of Perform qualitative risk analysis process - agreed upon response strategies - etc.
Plan Communications
Risk Register
Quality
Acquire Project Team
9. Project team must measure itself periodically against the expectations of those outside the project.
Project Files
Earned Value Analysis
Risk probability
External Feedback
10. Process of implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks - and evaluating risk process effectiveness throughout the project.
Analogous Estimating (top-down)
Determine Budget
Monitor and Control Risks
Change Control System
11. Charts that are used to show positions and relationships in a graphical format.
Report Performance
Project Closeout
Simulation
Organization Chart
12. Records of previous project results that can be used to identify risks.
Total Float
Assumptions
Plan Procurements
Project Files
13. A deliverable is a unique - tangible and verifiable work/product. Each project phase is marked by the completion of one or more deliverables.
Quality Policy
Deliverable
Recruitment Practices
Control Scope
14. Factors which - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real or certain.
Project Closeout
Resource Leveling
Assumptions
Information Distribution Methods
15. The state - quality - or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. An applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.
Residual Risks
Constraints
Manage Stakeholder
Quality
16. This involves calculating the theoretical early and late start and finish dates for all project activities without regard to any resource pool restrictions.
Performance Reviews
Resource Leveling
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Mathematical Analysis
17. 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.
Project Planning Methodology
Contract Change Control System
Checklists
Project Human Resource Management
18. Technologies or methods to transfer information among project stakeholders.
Communications Technology
Functional Organization
Scope baseline
Cost-reimbursable contracts
19. 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
Control Costs
Control Charts
Contract
Quality Management Plan
20. Clarify the structure - requirements and other terms of the purchases so that mutual agreement can be reached prior to signing the contract.
Data precision
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Procurement negotiations
21. 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.
Project Integration Management
Data Precision Ranking
System or Process
Cost Management Plan
22. Expectations The process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur. Project manager applies appropriate interpersonal skills to manage stakeholder expectations - for example - by building t
Manage Stakeholder
Constraints
Project Risk Management
Develop Schedule
23. Documentation resulting from project activities. These files may also maintain records of other projects that are detailed enough to aid in developing cost estimates.
Determine Budget
Control Account
Re-baselining
Plan Quality
24. Process of developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives. Includes the identification and assignment of individuals to take responsibility for each agreed-to and funded risk response.
Project Risk Management
Probability and impact matrix
Sensitivity Analysis
Plan Risk Responses
25. 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.
Project Schedule
Risk Database
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Project Risk Management
26. 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
Scope Management Plan
Bottom-up Estimating
Residual Risks
Project Integration Management
27. 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
Triggers
Matrix Organization
Quality Audit
Close procurements
28. 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.
Life Cycle Costing
Probability and impact matrix
Constraints
Collect Requirements
29. 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
Project Files
Trend Analysis
Prototypes
Design of Experiments (DOE)
30. Persons or organizations who are actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by the performance or completion of the project. They may also exert influence over the project - its deliverables - and the
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
Re-baselining
Project Stakeholders
Acquire Project Team
31. Process of estimating the type and quantities of resources like materials - people - equipment - or supplies required to perform each project activity
External Feedback
Fast Tracking
Distribute Information
Estimate Activity Resources
32. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget. It includes estimating the cost - determining the budget - and controlling the costs.
Project
Group Decision Making Techniques
Project Cost Management
Inspection
33. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.
Determine Budget
Scope Statement
Stakeholder Analysis
Procurement Management Plan
34. A management control point where the resource plans - scope - schedule and actual cost are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Similarities between Operations and Projects
Templates
Control Account
Constraints
35. The policies - guidelines - or procedures that govern the recruitment of staff.
Templates
Total Float
Code of Accounts
Recruitment Practices
36. The work that must be done to deliver a product with the specified features and functions
Workaround plans
Project Scope
Project Stakeholders
Communications management plan
37. A formal or informal approach to obtain information from stakeholders by talking to them directly
Risk Audits
Estimate Costs
Project Scope Management
Interviews
38. Organize and summarize the information gathered - and present the results of any analysis as compared to the performance measurement baseline. Reports should provide status and progress of the project at the required level of detail.
Quality Management Plan
Procurement negotiations
Identify Risks
Performance Reports
39. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project
Perform Quality Control
Quality Improvement
Prevention vs. Inspections
Plan Risk Responses
40. Refers to the centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic business objectives. Portfolio management ensures that the portfolios are reviewed to ascertain that resources are allocated as per priority and the allocation is con
Project Portfolio Management
Project Planning Methodology
Schedule Compression
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
41. Allows for probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimates
Root Cause Analysis
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Conduct Procurements
Product Description
42. A modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity.
Lag
Develop Schedule
Root Cause Analysis
Bidder Conferences
43. 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
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Procurement Management Plan
Project Records
44. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Training
Schedule updates
Communications Technology
Code of Accounts
45. Includes the processes that help to estimate - budget - and control costs - so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
Schedule Compression
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Mitigation
Project Cost Management
46. Features or services that characterize a product - result - or service
Plan Quality
Product Scope
Independent estimates
Quality Metrics
47. Process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - ad making changes and corrections as needed.
Additional Risk Response Planning
Administer procurements
Prevention vs. Inspections
Scope baseline
48. 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
Probability and impact matrix
Workaround plans
Stakeholder register
Budget Updates
49. Describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project.
Requirements Documentation
Team Building Activities
Differences between Operations and Project
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
50. Process of documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach - and identifying potential sellers.
Deliverable
Formal acceptance and closure
Plan Procurements
Communications management plan