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Subjects : certifications, capm
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1. Provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing common understanding of the project scope among the stakeholders






2. It can include correspondence - memos - meeting minutes - and documents describing the project.






3. The planned dates to perform schedule activities and the planned dates for meeting schedule milestones. Includes planned start and finish dates for the project's activities - milestones - work packages - planning packages - and control accounts. This






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






5. 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.






6. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.






7. Incurred for the exclusive benefit of the project (e.g. - salaries of full-time project staff).






8. It compares cost performance over time - schedule activities or work packages overrunning and under running the budget - and estimated funds needed to complete work in progress.






9. 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.






10. 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






11. 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.






12. Process of changing the schedule baseline. It is done when schedule delays are very severe - and the project schedule has to be completely changed.






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






14. Documents the characteristics of the product - result - or service which the project is undertaken to create.






15. A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result






16. Process of defining and documenting stakeholders' needs to meet the project objectives






17. Outcome of activities performed to accomplish the project.






18. Allow for non-sequential activities (e.g. Loops or Conditional Branches); e.g. - GERT(Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique) and System Dynamics






19. This involves calculating the theoretical early and late start and finish dates for all project activities without regard to any resource pool restrictions.






20. 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.






21. Process of redefining the cost performance/schedule/performance measurement/technical baseline. If cost variances are severe - re-baselining is needed to provide a realistic measure of performance.






22. Involves immediate corrective or preventive action as a consequence of quality control measurements.






23. 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






24. The planned dates to perform schedule activities and the planned dates for meeting schedule milestones. Includes planned start and finish dates for the project's activities - milestones - work packages - planning packages - and control accounts. This






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






26. 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.






27. The process of identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success.






28. Special category of revised cost estimates to an approved cost baseline.






29. An accepted action performed to bring projected future project performance in line with the project plan. These actions have to be documented.






30. 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






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






32. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.






33. 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






34. It consists of tools and techniques used to gather - integrate and disseminate the outputs of project management processes. Supports all aspects of the project from initiating through closing - and can include both manual and automated systems.






35. Special category of revised cost estimates to an approved cost baseline.






36. 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.






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






38. Process of developing a detailed description of the project and product






39. A technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic - and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates.






40. Process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - ad making changes and corrections as needed.






41. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project satisfies the needs for which it is undertaken. It includes quality planning - performing quality assurance and control.






42. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments.






43. 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.






44. The process of making relevant information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner - as planned. Performed throughout the entire project life cycle and in all management processes.






45. Schematic displays of the logical relationships (dependencies) among the project schedule activities; always drawn from left to right to reflect project work chronology






46. Meetings held to assess project status and/or progress.






47. Application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.






48. Involves developing a better understanding of the product of the project






49. Describes the need - justification - requirements - and current boundaries for the project.






50. Provide a structure that ensures a comprehensive process of systematically identifying risks to a consistent level of detail and contributes to the effectiveness and quality of the Identify Risks process. They include categories like technical - exte