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1. 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.
Contract Change Control System
Define Scope
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
2. Estimating or predicting future project status and progress based on knowledge and information available at the time of forecasting.
Secondary Risks
Project Cost Management
Procurement negotiations
Forecasting
3. Defines what kinds of competencies are required from what kind of individuals or groups and in what time frames.
Project Communications Management
Staffing Requirements
Control Costs
Schedule updates
4. A collection of formal (note: not informal) documented procedures - which defines how the documentation and project deliverables will be managed - changed and approved.
Change Control System
Performance Reviews
Product Analysis
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
5. Process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - ad making changes and corrections as needed.
Constraints
Stakeholder Analysis
Administer procurements
Product Scope
6. The expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work break down structure component - or the project.
Inspection
Work Results
Benchmarking
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
7. Used to solicit proposals from prospective sellers
Data precision
Procurement Documents
Initiation
Proposals
8. 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.
Additional Risk Response Planning
Scope Change Control System
Simulation
Constraints
9. 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
Staffing Requirements
Stakeholder register
Communication Requirements Analysis
Make-or-buy analysis
10. Process of estimating the type and quantities of resources like materials - people - equipment - or supplies required to perform each project activity
Develop Schedule
Project Integration Management
Estimate Activity Resources
Cost Performance Baseline
11. 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
Project Portfolio Management
Assumptions Analysis
Risk Consequences
Flowcharts
12. Factors which - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real or certain.
Parametric Estimating
Control Account
Assumptions
Communications Technology
13. 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
Configuration Management System
Statistical Sampling
Estimate Activity Resources
Contingency - Buffer - Reserve
14. Methods used to distribute information to team members and other stakeholders.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Planning Methodology
Project Plan Updates
Information Distribution Methods
15. 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
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Plan Quality
Communication Requirements Analysis
Project Scope Management
16. 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
Analogous Estimating (top-down)
Project Human Resource Management
Direct costs
17. Describes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - dissemination and ultimate disposition of project information. It includes identifying stakeholders - planning communication - distributing information - mana
Technical performance measurement
Project Communications Management
Risk Audits
Inspection
18. 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
Sequence Activities
Project Scope Management
Re-baselining
Fast Tracking
19. A partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing - and presenting information and data.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Templates
Requirements Documentation
Conditional Diagramming Methods
20. Costs allocated to the project by the performing organization as a cost of doing business (e.g. - salaries of corporate executives). Usually calculated as a percentage of direct costs.
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
Risk Audits
Initiation
21. A modification of a logical relationship that allows an acceleration of the successor activity. A negative lead is equivalent to a positive lag.
Fixed- price contracts
Avoidance
Lead
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
22. Describes the extent to which a risk is known or understood. Measures extent of data available as well as reliability of data.
Sensitivity Analysis
Procurement Documents
Data precision
Regulation
23. Includes the processes that help to estimate - budget - and control costs - so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
Project Cost Management
Inspection
Risk Audits
Develop Schedule
24. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.
Project Stakeholders
Work Results
Staffing Pool Description
Work Results
25. Projects are frequently divided into better manageable components or subprojects. Subprojects are often contracted to an external enterprise or another functional unit in the performing organization.
Perform Quality Control
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Subproject
Project Cost Management
26. 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
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Avoidance
Constraints
Design of Experiments (DOE)
27. 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.
Project Human Resource Management
Procurement resources
Communication Requirements Analysis
Product Analysis
28. 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
Team Development
Buyer-Seller relationship
Risk Register
Flowcharts
29. For many procurement items - the procuring organization may elect to either prepare its own independent estimate - or have an estimate of costs prepared by an outside professional estimator - to serve as a benchmark on proposed responses.
Close procurements
Documentation Reviews
Independent estimates
Project Risk Management
30. 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
Organization Breakdown Structure
Matrix Organization
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Cost Management Plan
31. Process of redefining the cost performance/schedule/performance measurement/technical baseline. If cost variances are severe - re-baselining is needed to provide a realistic measure of performance.
Corrective Action
Communication Requirements Analysis
Re-baselining
Status Review Meetings
32. Process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.
Control Scope
Free Float
Communications Technology
Matrix Organization
33. The process to identify and document project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - report relationships - and create a staffing management plan.
Develop Human Resource Plan
Contract
Precedence Relationships
Conditional Diagramming Methods
34. 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
Avoidance
Plan Procurements
Project Risk Management
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
35. Any modification to the contents of the project plan or the supporting details.
Quality Assurance
Project Scope Management
Project Plan Updates
Collect Requirements
36. Persons or organizations who are actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by the performance or completion of the project. They may also exert influence over the project - its deliverables - and the
Project Stakeholders
Procurement negotiations
Constraints
Process Adjustments
37. A schedule compression technique in which cost and schedule tradeoffs are analyzed to determine how to obtain the greatest amount of compression for the least incremental cost. Crashing only works for activities where additional resources will shorte
Crashing
Project Communications Management
Regulation
Quantitatively based durations
38. 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
Sensitivity Analysis
Constraints
Total Float
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
39. 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
Work Results
Project Planning Methodology
Functional Organization
Expert Judgment
40. 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
Initiation
Project Procurement Management
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
Scope Management Plan
41. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.
Determine Budget
Control Account
Mathematical Analysis
Requirements Traceability Matrix
42. Application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Project Management
Project Procurement Management
Change Control System
Requirements Documentation
43. Documents how requirements will be analyzed - documented - and managed throughout the project
Schedule updates
Requirements Management Plan
Plan Risk Responses
Project Human Resource Management
44. 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
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Process Adjustments
Resource Calendar
Facilitated Workshops
45. 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.
Stakeholder Analysis
Project Risk Management
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Bottom-up Estimating
46. Process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project.
Procurement resources
Decision Tree
Fast Tracking
Plan Risk Management
47. Features or services that characterize a product - result - or service
Contingency - Buffer - Reserve
Product Scope
Resource Leveling
Project Records
48. Project team must measure itself periodically against the expectations of those outside the project.
External Feedback
Precedence Relationships
Project Planning Methodology
Project Communications Management
49. Involves setting a fixed total price for a defined product or service to be provided.
Project Management
Fixed- price contracts
Buyer-Seller relationship
Constraints
50. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on the project objective.
Risk
Resource Calendar
Project Plan Updates
Sensitivity Analysis