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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.
Quantitatively based durations
Secondary Risks
Grade
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
2. It can include correspondence - memos - meeting minutes - and documents describing the project.
Scope Management Plan
Project Records
Product description
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
3. Defines the procedures by which project scope can be changed; includes paperwork - tracking systems and approval levels necessary for authorizing changes.
Scope Change Control System
Control Schedule
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Trend Analysis
4. The process of determining project stakeholders' information needs and defining a communication approach.
Assumptions Analysis
Plan Communications
Quality Audit
Triggers
5. 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
Resource Calendar
Sensitivity Analysis
Prevention vs. Inspections
Team Development
6. 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
Sensitivity Analysis
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Formal acceptance and closure
Inspection
7. Process to monitor the status of the project to update the project budget and manage changes to the cost baseline.
Scope Changes
Schedule Compression
Quality Audit
Procurement resources
8. 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.
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
Procurement negotiations
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Source Selection Criteria
9. A general management technique used to determine whether a particular work can be accomplished by the project team or must be purchased from outside sources.
Formal acceptance and closure
Schedule Compression
Monitor and Control Risks
Make-or-buy analysis
10. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.
Lessons Learned
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Staffing Pool Description
Product description
11. Changing the project management plan to eliminate the threat entirely.
Schedule Compression
Avoidance
Quality Policy
Independent estimates
12. A provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and/or schedule risk. Often used with a modifier to provide further details on what types of risk are meant to be mitigated.
Statistical Sampling
Project Cost Management
Contingency - Buffer - Reserve
Cost-reimbursable contracts
13. 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
Plan Communications
Performance Reports
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
Scope Management Plan
14. 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
Schedule Baseline
Risk management policies
Lead
Project Scope Management
15. Activities specifically taken by management and team members to help individual team members work together effectively - thereby improving team performance
Project Communications Management
Team Building Activities
Project Management
Data Precision Ranking
16. 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
Checklists
Risk probability
Decision Tree
Project Procurement Management
17. 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
Status Review Meetings
Identify Stakeholders
Facilitated Workshops
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
18. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project
Plan Communications
Perform Quality Control
Mitigation
Schedule Baseline
19. Incurred for the exclusive benefit of the project (e.g. - salaries of full-time project staff).
Determine Budget
Trend Analysis
Estimate Activity Durations
Direct costs
20. A subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - used to illustrate or study some potential or proposed schedule condition - such as changes in preferential schedule logic or project scope.
Checklists
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Scope Changes
Project Stakeholders
21. This involves calculating the theoretical early and late start and finish dates for all project activities without regard to any resource pool restrictions.
Control Scope
Scope Management Plan
Assumptions Analysis
Mathematical Analysis
22. Process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project.
Plan Risk Management
Plan Procurements
Functional Organization
Control Costs
23. Descriptions of which resources will be available at what times and in what patterns necessary for schedule development
Project Life Cycle
Resource Pool Descriptions
Quality Metrics
Close procurements
24. Describes how risk management will be structured and performed on the project.
Risk Management Plan
Assumptions
Constraints
Risk Database
25. 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
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Procurement audits
Process Adjustments
26. Describes the need - justification - requirements - and current boundaries for the project.
Coding Structure
Team Building Activities
Scope baseline
Change Requests
27. 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.
Decomposition
Control Account
Performance Reports
Scope Change Control System
28. Any modification to the agreed upon project scope as defined by the approved WBS
Crashing
Work Results
Scope Changes
Budget Updates
29. Reduce the probability and/or consequence of an adverse risk event to be within acceptable threshold limits.
Project Quality Management
Mitigation
Project Selection Methods
Plan Communications
30. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.
Quality Assurance
Plan Communications
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Earned Value Analysis
31. Document that formally authorizes a project. Provides project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Project Charter
Life Cycle Costing
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Decision Tree
32. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.
Procurement Documents
Determine Budget
Project Quality Management
Project Plan
33. 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.
Sequence Activities
Procurement Documents
Re-baselining
Checklists
34. The process to develop an approximation (estimate) of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities.
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
Requirements Documentation
Bid / quotation
Grade
35. The policies - guidelines - or procedures that govern the recruitment of staff.
Project Charter
Risk Consequences
Team Building Activities
Recruitment Practices
36. Technique to evaluate the degree to which data about risks is useful for risk management.
Probability and impact matrix
Data Precision Ranking
Simulation
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
37. 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.
Bid / quotation
Free Float
Acquire Project Team
Project Quality Management
38. Dependencies determined by the Project Management Team; involve a relationship between project activities and non-project activities (i.e. - dependencies on issues that are beyond the scope of the project). These dependencies are outside the project
Assumptions Analysis
Scope Changes
External Dependencies
Subproject
39. Clarify the structure - requirements and other terms of the purchases so that mutual agreement can be reached prior to signing the contract.
Quality Assurance
Procurement negotiations
Product Description
Acquire Project Team
40. 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
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
Project Portfolio Management
Stakeholder register
Cost-reimbursable contracts
41. A modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity.
Lag
Subproject
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Budget Updates
42. Focused sessions that bring key cross-functional stakeholders together to define product requirements
Report Performance
Corrective Action
Project Human Resource Management
Facilitated Workshops
43. The process of analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements - and schedule constrains to create the project schedule
Risk Categories
Independent estimates
Group Decision Making Techniques
Develop Schedule
44. It shortens the project schedule without changing the project scope - in order to meet schedule constraints - imposed dates - or other schedule objectives. -. This technique includes crashing and fast tracking.
Acquire Project Team
Project Plan Updates
Schedule Compression
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
45. Diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives.
Decision Tree
Life Cycle Costing
Assumptions
Identify Risks
46. 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
Crashing
Control Schedule
Initiation
Brainstorming
47. Factors which - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real or certain.
Constraints
Assumptions
Program
Risk Audits
48. Process to monitor the status of the project to update the project budget and manage changes to the cost baseline.
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
Re-baselining
Control Costs
Control Account
49. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.
Performance Reviews
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Quality Metrics
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
50. 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
Resource Leveling
Communications management plan
Procurement Documents
Configuration Management System