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1. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project includes only the essential work required to complete the project successfully. It includes collecting the requirements - defining the scope - verifying the scope and controlling the scope o
Trend Analysis
Probability and impact matrix
Project Scope Management
Project Life Cycle
2. 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 -
System or Process
Triggers
Plan Communications
Communications management plan
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.
Performance Reports
Project Communications Management
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Procurement resources
4. 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
Verify Scope
Risk Database
Deliverable
Group Creativity Techniques
5. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Fixed- price contracts
System or Process
Simulation
6. 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.
Code of Accounts
Cost Management Plan
Inspection
Quality Assurance
7. The process of making relevant information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner - as planned. Performed throughout the entire project life cycle and in all management processes.
Probability and impact matrix
Distribute Information
Assumptions
Constraints
8. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measure of scale such as size - weight - and complexity - from a previous - similar activity as the basis for estimating the same parameter o
Plan Risk Responses
Benchmarking
Decision Tree
Perform Quality Control
9. Seller prepared documents that describe the seller's ability and willingness to provide the requested product.
Project Closeout
Project Integration Management
Proposals
Matrix Organization
10. A schedule network analysis technique used to determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on various logical network paths in the project schedule network - and to determine the minimum total project duration. Early start and finish dates are calc
Grade
Bidder Conferences
Sequence Activities
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
11. It includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - dissemination - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information.
Parametric Estimating
Project Communications Management
Lag
Procurement Documents
12. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.
Fast Tracking
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Staffing Pool Description
Quality Assurance
13. The process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements - and forecasts to stakeholders.
Procurement Documents
Matrix Organization
Project Portfolio Management
Report Performance
14. Activities should have a coding structure to allow sorting and/or extractions based on different attributes assigned to the activities.
Quantitatively based durations
External Dependencies
Requirements Management Plan
Coding Structure
15. Schematic displays of the logical relationships (dependencies) among the project schedule activities; always drawn from left to right to reflect project work chronology
Collect Requirements
Expert Judgment
Quality Policy
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
16. 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
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
Cost Performance Baseline
Fixed- price contracts
Develop Human Resource Plan
17. Processes and procedures developed for the closing or canceling of projects.
Estimate Activity Resources
System or Process
Project Closeout
Product Analysis
18. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.
Contract
Free Float
Project Risk Management
Staffing Pool Description
19. Process of defining and documenting stakeholders' needs to meet the project objectives
Secondary Risks
Performance Reviews
Bidder Conferences
Collect Requirements
20. Reduce the probability and/or consequence of an adverse risk event to be within acceptable threshold limits.
Avoidance
Mitigation
Decision Tree
Inspection
21. 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.
Status Review Meetings
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Constraints
Rework
22. Application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Triggers
Source Selection Criteria
Quality Management Plan
Project Management
23. Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM) includes four types of dependencies or relationships between activities: 1. Finish to Start; 2. Finish to Finish; 3. Start to Finish; 4. Start to Start
Inspection
Technical performance measurement
Precedence Relationships
Grade
24. 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
Conduct Procurements
Resource Calendar
Sensitivity Analysis
Team Development
25. A group of documented procedure used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to: a) Identify and document the system's functional and physical characteristics; b)Control any changes to such characteristics; c) Record and repo
Requirements Management Plan
Technical performance measurement
Configuration Management System
Project Quality Management
26. 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.
Organization Breakdown Structure
Plan Risk Responses
Collocation
Group Decision Making Techniques
27. The process of approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Risk probability
Acceptance
Estimate Activity Durations
28. 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.
Project Cost Management
Group Creativity Techniques
Communication Requirements Analysis
Parametric Estimating
29. A method of obtaining early feedback on requirements by providing a working model of the expected product before actually building it.
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Prototypes
Constraints
Identify Stakeholders
30. Predefined approaches to risk analysis and response in some organizations that have to be tailored to a particular project.
Fast Tracking
Risk management policies
Revised Cost Estimates
Triggers
31. 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
Project Management
Fast Tracking
Project Portfolio Management
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
32. 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
Project Closeout
Work Authorization System
Checklists
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
33. 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
Project Selection Methods
Project Scope Management
Parametric Estimating
Project Portfolio Management
34. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.
Conduct Procurements
Earned Value Analysis
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
35. 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
Project Selection Methods
Constraints
Plan Procurements
Initiation
36. Special category of revised cost estimates to an approved cost baseline.
Project Team Directory
Parametric Estimating
Fixed- price contracts
Budget Updates
37. 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.
Mitigation
Manage Stakeholder
Plan Risk Responses
Bottom-up Estimating
38. Subdivision of project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components
Subproject
Sensitivity Analysis
Decomposition
Risk Register
39. Process to monitor the status of the project to update the project budget and manage changes to the cost baseline.
Organization Breakdown Structure
Project Human Resource Management
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Control Costs
40. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.
Initiation
Re-baselining
Performance Reviews
Statistical Sampling
41. A formal - approved document used to define how the project is executed - controlled and monitored. It can either be at a detailed or high level and may contain one or more subsidiary plans.
Project Cost Management
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
Project Plan
42. 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.
Close procurements
Procurement Management Plan
Transference
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
43. The calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal - such as the budget at completion (BAC) or the estimate at completion (EAC). It is the ratio of 'remaining work' to the 'fu
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Sensitivity Analysis
Control Charts
Procurement negotiations
44. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.
Proposal
Determine Budget
Bidder Conferences
Communications management plan
45. Probability that a risk will occur.
Product Analysis
Plan Risk Management
Risk probability
Estimate Activity Durations
46. Testing identified assumptions against two criteria: assumption stability and consequences on the project if the assumption is false.
Quantitatively based durations
Project Assumption Testing
Project Communications Management
System or Process
47. Process of documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach - and identifying potential sellers.
Monitor and Control Risks
Plan Procurements
Focus groups
Independent estimates
48. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project satisfies the needs for which it is undertaken. It includes quality planning - performing quality assurance and control.
Identify Stakeholders
Estimate Activity Durations
Transference
Project Quality Management
49. A mathematical technique to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. This is performed using run charts.
Estimate Costs
Projectized Organization
Data Precision Ranking
Trend Analysis
50. 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
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Information Distribution Methods
Qualified seller lists
Control Costs