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






2. The process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements - and forecasts to stakeholders.






3. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed.






4. Specify lessons that can be learned from each and every project - even from projects which are failures. They need to be documented. Most companies prefer post-implementation meetings and case studies to document Lessons Learned






5. 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.






6. Document that formally authorizes a project. Provides project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.






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






8. 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






9. Describes the procurement item in sufficient detail to allow prospective sellers to determine if they are capable of providing the products - services - or results.






10. A collection of formal (note: not informal) documented procedures - which defines how the documentation and project deliverables will be managed - changed and approved.






11. 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






12. 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.






13. Risks that arise as a direct result of implementing a risk response.






14. Process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.






15. Descriptions of which resources will be available at what times and in what patterns necessary for schedule development






16. 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.






17. An authorized time-phased budget at completion (BAC) used to measure - monitor - and control overall cost performance on the project. Developed as a summation of the approved budgets by time period and is typically displayed in the form of an S-curve






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






19. 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






20. Describes the processes required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project. It includes developing the human resource plan - acquiring the project team - developing the project team - and managing the project team.






21. Used to generate - classify - and prioritize product requirements. Some methods used to reach group decisions are: unanimity - majority - plurality - and dictatorship.






22. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.






23. Allows for probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimates






24. 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.






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






26. 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.






27. Forecasts of potential project schedule and cost results listing the possible completion dates or project duration and costs with their associated confidence levels.






28. Describes the processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated. It includes developing the project plan - managing the execution of the project plan - monitoring & controlling work - integrating the chang






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






30. 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.






31. Diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives.






32. 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






33. 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.






34. Systematic process of planning - identifying - analyzing - responding - and monitoring and controlling project risk. It increases the probability and impact of positive events - and decrease the probability and impact of negative events in the projec






35. Changing the project management plan to eliminate the threat entirely.






36. 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






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






38. Used to solicit proposals from prospective sellers






39. Includes identified risks - risk owners - results of Perform qualitative risk analysis process - agreed upon response strategies - etc.






40. Generally used when considerations like technical approach and technical skills are paramount in source selection






41. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






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.






43. Used to rate or score seller proposals






44. Technique to evaluate the degree to which data about risks is useful for risk management.






45. Seller prepared documents that describe the seller's ability and willingness to provide the requested product.






46. Defines the procedures by which project scope can be changed; includes paperwork - tracking systems and approval levels necessary for authorizing changes.






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






48. Probability that a risk will occur.






49. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.






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






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