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1. A requirement imposed by a governmental body and its compliance is mandatory.
Facilitated Workshops
Regulation
Configuration Management System
Prototypes
2. Describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project.
Schedule Baseline
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
Requirements Documentation
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
3. 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.
Group Decision Making Techniques
Risk Management Plan
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Quality Management Plan
4. Policies - guidelines and procedures that can help the project management team with various aspects of organizational planning.
Risk Management Plan
Human Resource Practices
Scope Management Plan
Direct costs
5. Process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller - and awarding a contract
Mitigation
Risk Consequences
Close procurements
Conduct Procurements
6. Involves setting a fixed total price for a defined product or service to be provided.
Fixed- price contracts
Human Resource Practices
Product Description
Conditional Diagramming Methods
7. Includes the processes that organize - manage - and lead the project team.
Change Requests
Independent estimates
Project Human Resource Management
Make-or-buy analysis
8. Quantities to be performed for each specific category - and can be used to estimate activity durations
Quantitatively based durations
Team Development
Cost-reimbursable contracts
Perform Quality Control
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
Crashing
Project Files
Qualified seller lists
Secondary Risks
10. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives.
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Bottom-up Estimating
11. Describes the extent to which a risk is known or understood. Measures extent of data available as well as reliability of data.
Project Risk Management
Observations
Data precision
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
12. 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
Triggers
Organizational Policies
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Fast Tracking
13. 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
Communication Requirements Analysis
Performance Reviews
Work Results
Project Risk Management
14. 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
Decision Tree
Develop Schedule
Project Schedule
Process Adjustments
15. Documentation resulting from project activities. These files may also maintain records of other projects that are detailed enough to aid in developing cost estimates.
Risk Categories
Project Files
Schedule Compression
Quality Management Plan
16. Bring together prequalified stakeholders and subject matter experts to learn about their expectations and attitudes about a proposed product - service - or result
Formal acceptance and closure
Work Authorization System
Focus groups
Project Procurement Management
17. 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
Resource Calendar
Scope Management Plan
Project Scope
Fast Tracking
18. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas - or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts which data can be addressed later in Perform qualitative and quantitative
Sequence Activities
Brainstorming
Schedule Compression
Acquire Project Team
19. Collection of generally sequential project phases.
Program
Project Life Cycle
Work Results
Project Schedule
20. Charts/ Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed. Such expertise may be provided by any group or person with specialized education -
Prototypes
Probability and impact matrix
Control Scope
System or Process
21. Includes all those activities designed to enhance the competencies of the project team members. Training can be formal or informal.
Work Results
System or Process
Training
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
22. The process to identify and document project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - report relationships - and create a staffing management plan.
Budget Updates
System or Process
Develop Human Resource Plan
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
23. Involves developing a better understanding of the product of the project
Product Analysis
Project Files
Risk Database
Conduct Procurements
24. Meetings with all prospective sellers and buyers prior to submittal of a bid or proposal. Used to ensure that all prospective sellers have a clear and common understanding of the procurement - and that no bidders receive preferential treatment.
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Templates
Bidder Conferences
Make-or-buy analysis
25. Subdivision of project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components
Decomposition
Benchmarking
Project Plan Updates
Crashing
26. A modification of a logical relationship that allows an acceleration of the successor activity. A negative lead is equivalent to a positive lag.
Project
Project Plan Updates
Lead
Project Human Resource Management
27. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.
Grade
Observations
Training
Plan Risk Responses
28. 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
Schedule updates
Scope Changes
Scope Change Control System
Crashing
29. Allows for probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimates
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Identify Stakeholders
Corrective Action
Performance Reviews
30. 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.
Corrective Action
Collocation
Assumptions
Performance Reviews
31. Documents the characteristics of the product - result - or service which the project is undertaken to create.
Product Description
Identify Stakeholders
Project Team Directory
Contract Change Control System
32. Process of developing a detailed description of the project and product
Constraints
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Project Time Management
Define Scope
33. Includes the processes that help to estimate - budget - and control costs - so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
Earned Value Analysis
Brainstorming
Project Quality Management
Inspection
34. 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
Assumptions Analysis
Independent estimates
Work Authorization System
Total Float
35. Also called risk symptoms or warning signs - they are indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. They may be discovered in the risk identification process and watched in the risk monitoring and control process.
Report Performance
Distribute Information
Triggers
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
36. Seller is a subcontractor - vendor - or supplier - who will typically manage the work of the project. Buyer is the customer who has outsourced work to the seller.
Estimate Activity Durations
Templates
Buyer-Seller relationship
Scope Management Plan
37. Process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.
Project Cost Management
Control Scope
Plan Communications
Schedule Baseline
38. Probability that a risk will occur.
Control Schedule
Project Team Directory
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Risk probability
39. 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
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
Additional Risk Response Planning
Budget Updates
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
40. A partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing - and presenting information and data.
Collect Requirements
Project Procurement Management
Templates
Recruitment Practices
41. Process of defining and documenting stakeholders' needs to meet the project objectives
Earned Value Analysis
Collect Requirements
Checklists
Budget Updates
42. Dependencies that are contractually required or those inherent in the nature of the work. Often involve physical limitations.
Scope Change Control System
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Performance Reviews
Flowcharts
43. It shortens the project schedule without changing the project scope - in order to meet schedule constraints - imposed dates - or other schedule objectives. -. This technique includes crashing and fast tracking.
Communications Technology
Schedule Compression
Proposals
Technical performance measurement
44. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.
Matrix Organization
Decomposition
Corrective Action
Mathematical Analysis
45. 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 Selection Methods
Risk Register
Parametric Estimating
Quality Improvement
46. The expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work break down structure component - or the project.
Root Cause Analysis
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Cost Management Plan
Scope Changes
47. 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.
Schedule Baseline
Staffing Requirements
Procurement performance reviews
Plan Risk Responses
48. Predefined approaches to risk analysis and response in some organizations that have to be tailored to a particular project.
Corrective Action
Project Selection Methods
Risk management policies
Corrective Action
49. A general management technique used to determine whether a particular work can be accomplished by the project team or must be purchased from outside sources.
Recruitment Practices
Project Scope
Make-or-buy analysis
Quantitatively based durations
50. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle
Corrective Action
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Product description
Requirements Traceability Matrix