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1. A functional organization has a hierarchy in which every employee has one clear superior. Staff members are grouped by areas of specialization. Functional organizations may still have projects - but the perceived scope of the project is defined by th
Bottom-up Estimating
Product Analysis
Statistical Sampling
Functional Organization
2. Dependencies that are contractually required or those inherent in the nature of the work. Often involve physical limitations.
Focus groups
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Scope Statement
Crashing
3. In a projectized organization - most of the organization's resources are involved in project work - and Project Managers have a great deal of independence and authority.
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Projectized Organization
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Direct costs
4. A modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity.
Documentation Reviews
Training
Code of Accounts
Lag
5. Documentation resulting from project activities. These files may also maintain records of other projects that are detailed enough to aid in developing cost estimates.
Observations
Scope Statement
Report Performance
Plan Quality
6. Quantities to be performed for each specific category - and can be used to estimate activity durations
Project Human Resource Management
Quantitatively based durations
Revised Cost Estimates
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
7. 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.
Formal acceptance and closure
Prototypes
Plan Risk Responses
Group Creativity Techniques
8. A partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing - and presenting information and data.
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Templates
Decomposition
Configuration Management System
9. The expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work break down structure component - or the project.
Acquire Project Team
Project Scope
Re-baselining
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
10. 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
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
Bottom-up Estimating
Matrix Organization
Functional Organization
11. 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
Report Performance
Work Results
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Contract Change Control System
12. Formal and informal policies that are required for project plan development. Organizational policies include quality management - personnel administration and financial controls.
Organizational Policies
Project Scope Management
Project Communications Management
Activity List
13. 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
Grade
Control Costs
Tolerances vs. Control limits
Team Development
14. Description of the product of the project - provides important information about any technical issues or concerns that would need to be considered during procurement planning
Procurement Documents
Project Planning Methodology
Product description
Rework
15. Generally used when considerations like technical approach and technical skills are paramount in source selection
Quality
Change Requests
Prevention vs. Inspections
Proposal
16. 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.
Additional Risk Response Planning
Cost Management Plan
Procurement Management Plan
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
17. Process of changing the schedule baseline. It is done when schedule delays are very severe - and the project schedule has to be completely changed.
Re-baselining
Scope Changes
Manage Stakeholder
Probability and impact matrix
18. A calendar of working days and non- working days that determines those dates on which each specific resource is ideal or can be active; typically defines the resource specific holidays and resource availability periods; the calendars that specify whe
Independent estimates
Resource Calendar
Fixed- price contracts
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
19. Describes how the procurement processes (from developing procurement documentation through contract closure) will be managed
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Project Risk Management
Procurement Management Plan
Total Float
20. This compares technical accomplishments during project execution with the project management plan's schedule of technical achievement.
Technical performance measurement
Procurement resources
Assumptions
Simulation
21. 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
Life Cycle Costing
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Program
22. Structured review of the project plans and assumptions - prior project files - contracts - and other information.
Formal acceptance and closure
Project Planning Methodology
Close procurements
Documentation Reviews
23. 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.
Report Performance
Team Development
Additional Risk Response Planning
Quality Assurance
24. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.
Contract Change Control System
Trend Analysis
Scope Management Plan
Tolerances vs. Control limits
25. Measuring - examining and testing undertaken to determine whether results conform to requirements; also called reviews - product reviews - audits - and walkthroughs
Close procurements
Inspection
Probability and impact matrix
Tolerances vs. Control limits
26. 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.
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Risk Database
Verify Scope
27. Activities should have a coding structure to allow sorting and/or extractions based on different attributes assigned to the activities.
Earned Value Analysis
Lag
Coding Structure
Performance Reports
28. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics.
Project
Project Charter
Prototypes
Identify Risks
29. 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
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Develop Schedule
Estimate Costs
Manage Stakeholder
30. A collection of formal (note: not informal) documented procedures - which defines how the documentation and project deliverables will be managed - changed and approved.
Control Schedule
Project Cost Management
Quality Management Plan
Change Control System
31. 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.
Risk Database
Project Integration Management
Project Team Directory
Collocation
32. Technique that explores the validity of assumptions basing on which every identified project risk is conceived and developed. It identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - instability - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions.
Assumptions Analysis
Define Activities
Communication Requirements Analysis
Simulation
33. Documents how requirements will be analyzed - documented - and managed throughout the project
Requirements Management Plan
Precedence Relationships
Regulation
Project Assumption Testing
34. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints.
Quality Improvement
Risk Database
Resource Leveling
Procurement file
35. Describes how risk management will be structured and performed on the project.
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
Communication Requirements Analysis
Quality Policy
Risk Management Plan
36. Process to monitor the status of the project to update the project budget and manage changes to the cost baseline.
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Control Account
Quality Audit
Contingency - Buffer - Reserve
37. 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.
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Information Distribution Methods
Team Building Activities
Fast Tracking
38. An accepted action performed to bring projected future project performance in line with the project plan. These actions have to be documented.
Corrective Action
Control Account
Identify Stakeholders
Organization Chart
39. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on the project objective.
Project Plan Updates
Project Cost Management
Risk
Project Human Resource Management
40. 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.
Lead
Schedule Baseline
Plan Communications
Resource Leveling
41. 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
Control Charts
Avoidance
Stakeholder register
Prioritized list of quantified risks
42. Process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities. Sequencing can be performed by using project management software or by using manual or automated techniques.
Earned Value Analysis
Sequence Activities
Assumptions Analysis
Define Scope
43. Checklists are structured tools - usually component specific - used to verify that a set of required steps has been performed and to ensure consistency in frequently performed tasks. These can be developed based on historical information and knowledg
Simulation
Resource Calendar
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Checklists
44. 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.
Constraints
Work Results
Plan Communications
Project Team Directory
45. Involves developing a better understanding of the product of the project
Recruitment Practices
Performance Reviews
Cost Management Plan
Product Analysis
46. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Decision Tree
Stakeholder register
Quality Policy
Project Communications Management
47. Allows for probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimates
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Project Management
Project Risk Management
Procurement performance reviews
48. Process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller - and awarding a contract
Contract Change Control System
Plan Risk Management
Conduct Procurements
Group Decision Making Techniques
49. A formal or informal approach to obtain information from stakeholders by talking to them directly
Interviews
Bid / quotation
Project
Lag
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
Buyer-Seller relationship
Risk Categories
Mathematical Analysis
Acquire Project Team