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1. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Quality Policy
Stakeholder Analysis
External Feedback
Verify Scope
2. 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.
Quality Assurance
Simulation
Project Plan
Project Cost Management
3. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on the project objective.
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Product Description
Risk
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
4. 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
Coding Structure
Information Distribution Methods
Project Portfolio Management
Brainstorming
5. Reduce the probability and/or consequence of an adverse risk event to be within acceptable threshold limits.
Control Scope
Rework
Grade
Mitigation
6. A modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity.
Quality Improvement
Bidder Conferences
Lag
Budget Updates
7. Documents how requirements will be analyzed - documented - and managed throughout the project
Project Plan Updates
Performance Reviews
Requirements Management Plan
Brainstorming
8. Used to rate or score seller proposals
Source Selection Criteria
Risk Register
Project Communications Management
Corrective Action
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
Estimate Activity Durations
Qualified seller lists
Group Creativity Techniques
Project Human Resource Management
10. 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
Triggers
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Statistical Sampling
11. Policies - guidelines and procedures that can help the project management team with various aspects of organizational planning.
Schedule Baseline
Human Resource Practices
Constraints
Plan Procurements
12. 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
Estimate Activity Resources
Project Management
Communications management plan
Communication Requirements Analysis
13. The process to develop an approximation (estimate) of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities.
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Staffing Pool Description
Procurement audits
Estimate Costs
14. Process of assessing and combining the impact and the likelihood of identified risks. Prioritizes risks according to their potential effect on project objectives for further analysis or action.
Quality
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Information Distribution Methods
Procurement negotiations
15. 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
Project Plan
Identify Stakeholders
Subproject
Parametric Estimating
16. A schedule compression technique in which cost and schedule tradeoffs are analyzed to determine how to obtain the greatest amount of compression for the least incremental cost. Crashing only works for activities where additional resources will shorte
Risk Consequences
Crashing
Product Scope
Initiation
17. 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.
Plan Quality
Re-baselining
Contract
Subproject
18. Describes the extent to which a risk is known or understood. Measures extent of data available as well as reliability of data.
Direct costs
Expert Judgment
Data precision
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
19. Structured review of the procurement process originating from the Plan Procurements process through Administer Procurements process. Objective is to identify successes and failures that warrant recognition in the preparation or administration of othe
Templates
Define Scope
Procurement audits
Initiation
20. 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.
Critical Path Method
Risk Audits
Activity List
Project Procurement Management
21. 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
Project Files
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Procurement audits
Root Cause Analysis
22. Defines what kinds of competencies are required from what kind of individuals or groups and in what time frames.
Grade
Estimate Activity Resources
Direct costs
Staffing Requirements
23. Process of changing the schedule baseline. It is done when schedule delays are very severe - and the project schedule has to be completely changed.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Perform Quality Control
Re-baselining
24. A modification of a logical relationship that allows an acceleration of the successor activity. A negative lead is equivalent to a positive lag.
Code of Accounts
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Lead
Secondary Risks
25. Includes the processes that organize - manage - and lead the project team.
Project Human Resource Management
Bidder Conferences
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Secondary Risks
26. Requests to expand or reduce project scope - modify policies/ processes/plans/procedures/costs and - if approved - can affect budgets or revise schedules. These change requests are processed through the Perform Integrated Change Control process.
Root Cause Analysis
Change Requests
Risk
Project Scope
27. 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
Project Stakeholders
Regulation
Corrective Action
Project Time Management
28. A requirement imposed by a governmental body and its compliance is mandatory.
Regulation
Project Team Directory
Activity List
Inspection
29. 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)
Grade
Project Records
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
30. Documents the characteristics of the product - result - or service which the project is undertaken to create.
Project Risk Management
Product Description
Status Review Meetings
Benchmarking
31. Includes identified risks - risk owners - results of Perform qualitative risk analysis process - agreed upon response strategies - etc.
Precedence Relationships
Risk Register
Project Integration Management
Inspection
32. The total amount of time that a schedule activity may be delayed from its early start without delaying the project finish date - or violating a schedule constraint. Calculated using the critical path method technique and determining the difference be
Product Scope
Total Float
Organizational Policies
Fast Tracking
33. Probability that a risk will occur.
Proposal
Quality Audit
Prioritized list of quantified risks
Risk probability
34. Helps to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. Examines the extent to which the uncertainty of each project element affects the objective being examined when all the other uncertain elements are held at their baseline v
Flowcharts
Monitor and Control Risks
Sensitivity Analysis
Project Portfolio Management
35. Descriptions of which resources will be available at what times and in what patterns necessary for schedule development
Quantitatively based durations
Recruitment Practices
Conditional Diagramming Methods
Resource Pool Descriptions
36. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.
Change Requests
Determine Budget
Activity List
Lag
37. A provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and/or schedule risk. Often used with a modifier to provide further details on what types of risk are meant to be mitigated.
Contingency - Buffer - Reserve
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Assumptions Analysis
Change Control System
38. 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
Status Review Meetings
Manage Stakeholder
Risk probability
Constraints
39. The expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work break down structure component - or the project.
Brainstorming
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Quality Metrics
Risk Management Plan
40. They involve measuring value or attractiveness to the project owner. Includes considering the decision criteria and a means to calculate value under uncertainty.
Project Selection Methods
Project Time Management
Quality Metrics
Group Decision Making Techniques
41. 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.
Independent estimates
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Configuration Management System
Make-or-buy analysis
42. Describes the processes required to ensure timely completion of the project. It includes defining activities - sequencing activities - estimating activity resources - estimating activity durations - developing the schedule - and controlling the sched
Product Scope
Project Time Management
Define Activities
Forecasting
43. Activities that assist in developing/enhancing the ability of team members to work together effectively and contribute to the success of the project team. It improves the people skills - technical competencies - and overall team environment and proje
Communication Requirements Analysis
Team Development
Flowcharts
Project Risk Management
44. Project team must measure itself periodically against the expectations of those outside the project.
Earned Value Analysis
External Feedback
Prioritized list of quantified risks
Determine Budget
45. 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
Plan Communications
Assumptions
Stakeholder Analysis
Project Risk Management
46. The process to identify and document project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - report relationships - and create a staffing management plan.
Focus groups
Develop Human Resource Plan
Budget Updates
Project Integration Management
47. Provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing common understanding of the project scope among the stakeholders
Prioritized list of quantified risks
Scope Statement
Focus groups
Decision Tree
48. Describes how project scope will be managed and how scope changes will be integrated into the project. It should also include an assessment of the expected stability of the project scope
Life Cycle Costing
Inspection
Plan Risk Management
Scope Management Plan
49. A schedule compression technique in which phases or activities normally performed in sequence are performed in parallel. Fast tracking often results in rework and increased risk. Fast tracking only works if activities can be overlapped to shorten the
Quality
Work Results
Project
Fast Tracking
50. A deliverable is a unique - tangible and verifiable work/product. Each project phase is marked by the completion of one or more deliverables.
Scope baseline
Project Plan Updates
Prioritized list of quantified risks
Deliverable