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1. Outcome of activities performed to accomplish the project.
Work Results
Control Scope
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
2. Involves developing a better understanding of the product of the project
Code of Accounts
Product Analysis
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Control Account
3. Factors which - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real or certain.
Project Scope Management
Assumptions
Project Life Cycle
Prevention vs. Inspections
4. Defines what kinds of competencies are required from what kind of individuals or groups and in what time frames.
Resource Pool Descriptions
Change Control System
Staffing Requirements
Constraints
5. Seeking to shift the consequences of the risk to a third party together with the ownership for the response.
Procurement audits
Risk
Parametric Estimating
Transference
6. The work that must be done to deliver a product with the specified features and functions
Organizational Policies
Constraints
Project Scope
Group Creativity Techniques
7. A formal procedure for authorizing project work to ensure that work is done by the identified organization at the right time and in proper sequence.
Resource Pool Descriptions
Work Authorization System
Precedence Relationships
Quality Assurance
8. Processes and procedures developed for the closing or canceling of projects.
Constraints
Fixed- price contracts
Inspection
Distribute Information
9. Defines the procedures by which project scope can be changed; includes paperwork - tracking systems and approval levels necessary for authorizing changes.
Prevention vs. Inspections
Scope Change Control System
Corrective Action
Technical performance measurement
10. They involve measuring value or attractiveness to the project owner. Includes considering the decision criteria and a means to calculate value under uncertainty.
Project Selection Methods
Subproject
Scope Change Control System
Procurement negotiations
11. A requirement imposed by a governmental body and its compliance is mandatory.
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Regulation
Make-or-buy analysis
Performance Reviews
12. 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
Brainstorming
Organization Breakdown Structure
Forecasting
Scope Statement
13. A modification of a logical relationship that allows an acceleration of the successor activity. A negative lead is equivalent to a positive lag.
Risk Audits
Collect Requirements
Inspection
Lead
14. The process of determining project stakeholders' information needs and defining a communication approach.
Performance Reviews
Life Cycle Costing
Lead
Plan Communications
15. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics.
Avoidance
Identify Risks
Plan Quality
Close procurements
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.
Decomposition
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
Additional Risk Response Planning
Interviews
17. Schematic displays of the logical relationships (dependencies) among the project schedule activities; always drawn from left to right to reflect project work chronology
Corrective Action
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
Inspection
Cost-reimbursable contracts
18. 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.
Critical Path Method
Bidder Conferences
Process Adjustments
Benchmarking
19. 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
Parametric Estimating
Conduct Procurements
Grade
Project Cost Management
20. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints.
Resource Leveling
Inspection
Life Cycle Costing
Project Stakeholders
21. Approved modifications to the project schedule that are used to manage the project
Identify Stakeholders
Simulation
Cost Management Plan
Schedule updates
22. Collection of generally sequential project phases.
Project Life Cycle
Process Adjustments
Plan Risk Responses
Communications Technology
23. Process of documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach - and identifying potential sellers.
Plan Procurements
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Tolerances vs. Control limits
24. The process of analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements - and schedule constrains to create the project schedule
Risk Consequences
Develop Schedule
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
Cost-reimbursable contracts
25. Process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project.
Plan Risk Management
Risk Register
Expert Judgment
System or Process
26. 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
Risk Database
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Project Integration Management
Monitor and Control Risks
27. 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
Budget Updates
Project Integration Management
Scope baseline
Requirements Management Plan
28. 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.
Rework
Corrective Action
Collocation
Requirements Management Plan
29. Predefined approaches to risk analysis and response in some organizations that have to be tailored to a particular project.
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Constraints
Bidder Conferences
Risk management policies
30. 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
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Bottom-up Estimating
Procurement negotiations
31. 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.
Plan Risk Responses
Assumptions Analysis
Project Risk Management
Procurement performance reviews
32. 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
Procurement audits
Parametric Estimating
Project Risk Management
Scope Management Plan
33. 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.
Contract
Project Risk Management
Group Decision Making Techniques
Performance Reports
34. Used to generate - classify - and prioritize product requirements. Some methods used to reach group decisions are: unanimity - majority - plurality - and dictatorship.
Group Decision Making Techniques
Risk Categories
Human Resource Practices
Administer procurements
35. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Program
Contract Change Control System
Code of Accounts
Develop Human Resource Plan
36. 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.
Change Requests
Plan Risk Responses
Project Human Resource Management
Checklists
37. 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
Constraints
Bidder Conferences
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
Checklists
38. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.
Free Float
Crashing
Control Account
Staffing Pool Description
39. Documentation resulting from project activities. These files may also maintain records of other projects that are detailed enough to aid in developing cost estimates.
Project Files
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Project Planning Methodology
Group Decision Making Techniques
40. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.
Fast Tracking
Estimate Activity Durations
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Observations
41. Clarify the structure - requirements and other terms of the purchases so that mutual agreement can be reached prior to signing the contract.
Procurement negotiations
Inspection
Work Results
Control Charts
42. 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.
Source Selection Criteria
Sensitivity Analysis
Budget Updates
Triggers
43. Terms used when the source selection decision will be based on price
Technical performance measurement
Bid / quotation
Administer procurements
Control Schedule
44. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.
Earned Value Analysis
Quality
Bidder Conferences
Statistical Sampling
45. Subdivision of project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components
Decomposition
Constraints
Product Description
Resource Pool Descriptions
46. Seller prepared documents that describe the seller's ability and willingness to provide the requested product.
Proposals
Tolerances vs. Control limits
Staffing Requirements
Project Stakeholders
47. 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
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Project Closeout
Crashing
Total Float
48. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle
Product Analysis
Corrective Action
Requirements Traceability Matrix
External Dependencies
49. Document that formally authorizes a project. Provides project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Acquire Project Team
Project Cost Management
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Project Charter
50. Documents how requirements will be analyzed - documented - and managed throughout the project
Subproject
Documentation Reviews
Requirements Management Plan
Define Activities