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1. Includes all those activities designed to enhance the competencies of the project team members. Training can be formal or informal.






2. A structured review of the seller's progress to deliver project scope and quality - within cost and on schedule - as compared to the contract.






3. Organize and summarize the information gathered - and present the results of any analysis as compared to the performance measurement baseline. Reports should provide status and progress of the project at the required level of detail.






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






5. The process to identify and document project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - report relationships - and create a staffing management plan.






6. Repository that provides for collection - maintenance - and analysis of data gathered and used in the risk management process. Use of this database assists risk management throughout the organization and - over time - forms the basis of a risk lesson






7. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming item into compliance with requirements or specifications. It is a frequent cause of project overruns in most application areas.






8. 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






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






10. 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.






11. Process of estimating the type and quantities of resources like materials - people - equipment - or supplies required to perform each project activity






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






13. 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






14. It includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - dissemination - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information.






15. 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






16. Factors which - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real or certain.






17. Group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain control and benefits that are not available if managed individually.






18. Includes the processes that organize - manage - and lead the project team.






19. Estimating or predicting future project status and progress based on knowledge and information available at the time of forecasting.






20. Focused sessions that bring key cross-functional stakeholders together to define product requirements






21. 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






22. Factors that will limit the project management team's options (e.g. - a predefined budget)






23. A method of estimating a component of work. The work is decomposed into more detail. An estimate is prepared of what is needed to meet the requirements of each of the lower - more detailed pieces of work. These estimates are then aggregated into a to






24. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints.






25. 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.






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






27. The process of analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements - and schedule constrains to create the project schedule






28. Probability that a risk will occur.






29. 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






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






31. Approved modifications to the project schedule that are used to manage the project






32. Policies - guidelines and procedures that can help the project management team with various aspects of organizational planning.






33. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project






34. 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






35. Terms used when the source selection decision will be based on price






36. Measuring - examining and testing undertaken to determine whether results conform to requirements; also called reviews - product reviews - audits - and walkthroughs






37. Process of formally authorizing a new project or the next phase of an existing project; links the project to the ongoing work of the performing organization






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






39. Any modification to the contents of the project plan or the supporting details.






40. Collection of generally sequential project phases.






41. It is a tool and technique which is used to determine the information needs of the project stakeholders. This is a key component for planning the project's actual communications. It would assist in determining and limiting who will communicate with w






42. 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.






43. Activities specifically taken by management and team members to help individual team members work together effectively - thereby improving team performance






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






45. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.






46. 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.






47. Involves procedures required to close a contract as specified in the prescribed procedures for close procurements. Includes product verification and administrative closure.






48. A hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units.






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






50. Structured method to guide the project team during development of project plan. Standard forms and templates or even complicated simulations may be used.