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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any successor or violating a schedule constraint.
Scope Creep
Risk Transference
Progressive Elaboration
Free Float
2. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Lead
WBS Dictionary
Cost Management Plan
Activity
3. The approved version of a schedule model that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.
Risk Category
Estimate to Complete
Change Request
Schedule Baseline
4. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Gantt Chart
S-Curve Analysis
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Earned Value Management
5. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Project Management Plan
Defect Repair
Milestone
Change Control
6. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Actual Cost
Organizational Process Assets
Lag
Decomposition
7. The approved version of a work product that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison.
Baseline
Trigger Condition
Critical Path Method
Three-Point Estimate
8. The knowledge gained during a project which shows how project events were addressed or should be addressed in the future for the purpose of improving future performance
Analogous Estimating
Start-to-Finish
Lessons Learned
Performing Organization
9. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Earned Value
Stakeholder
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Organizational Process Assets
10. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Risk Mitigation
Early Start Date
Project
Risk Avoidance
11. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Late Finish Date
Budget at Completion
Fast Tracking
Change Control
12. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Scope Management Plan
Start-to-Start
Lead
Predecessor Activity
13. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Human Resource Plan
Probability and Impact Matrix
Most Likely Duration
Early Start Date
14. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Bottom-up Estimating
Project Management Plan
Change Request
Program Management Office
15. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Portfolio Balancing
Path Convergence
Project Management Plan
Late Finish Date
16. The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information and more accurate estimates become available.
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Deliverable
Progressive Elaboration
Phase Gate
17. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Progressive Elaboration
Cost Management Plan
Communication Management Plan
Staffing Management Plan
18. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Acceptance Criteria
Preventive Action
Risk Avoidance
Start-to-Finish
19. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Project Scope Statement
Backward Pass
Finish-to-Start
Project Phase
20. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Path Divergence
Schedule Model
Human Resource Plan
Project Management
21. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to a program to meet the program requirements and to obtain benefits and control not available by managing projects individually.
Estimate to Complete
Baseline
Lag
Program Management
22. The amount of budget deficit or surplus at a given point in time - expressed as the difference between the earned value and the actual cost.
Schedule Management Plan
Requirement
Cost Variance
Opportunity
23. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Staffing Management Plan
Gantt Chart
Risk
Effort
24. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
To-Complete Performance Index
Product Life Cycle
Schedule Compression
Late Finish Date
25. In the critical path method - the earliest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start based on the schedule network logic - the data date - and any schedule constraints.
Summary Activity
Quality Management Plan
Early Start Date
Portfolio Management
26. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Defect Repair
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Organizational Breakdown Structure
27. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Data Date
Program
Level of Effort
Control Account
28. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Estimate at Completion
Portfolio
Schedule Management Plan
Critical Path Activity
29. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Lag
Portfolio
Early Start Date
Percent Complete
30. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Critical Path
Opportunity
Control Account
Portfolio Management
31. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Portfolio Balancing
Critical Path Activity
Defect Repair
Schedule Variance
32. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Defect Repair
Progressive Elaboration
Project Schedule
Change Control System
33. A condition or capability that is required to be present in a product - service - or result to satisfy a contract or other formally imposed specification.
Change Control System
Schedule Model
Requirement
Forward Pass
34. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Variance at Completion
Fast Tracking
Control Account
Risk Management Plan
35. A schedule compression technique in which activities or phases normally done in sequence are performed in parallel for at least a portion of their duration.
Assumption
Fast Tracking
Risk Management Plan
Threat
36. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Acceptance Criteria
Risk Breakdown Structure
Free Float
37. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Assumption
Start-to-Start
Scope Management Plan
Total Float
38. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Cost Variance
Phase Gate
Portfolio Management
Path Divergence
39. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how a team will acquire goods and services from outside of the performing organization.
Defect Repair
Procurement Management Plan
Planned Value
Apportioned Effort
40. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Start-to-Start
Critical Path
Risk Avoidance
Risk Transference
41. A group of related projects - subprograms and program activities that are managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually.
Schedule Baseline
Program
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Finish-to-Start
42. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Resource Calendar
Level of Effort
Activity
Logical Relationship
43. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Schedule Compression
Schedule Model Analysis
Successor Activity
Discrete Effort
44. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Staffing Management Plan
Earned Value
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Human Resource Plan
45. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Fast Tracking
Portfolio Balancing
Summary Activity
Cost Performance Index
46. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Schedule Baseline
Optimistic Duration
Effort
Change Control Board
47. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Effort
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Resource Leveling
Project Management Plan
48. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Effort
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Risk Register
Path Convergence
49. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Activity
Finish-to-Start
Precedence Diagramming Method
50. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
WBS Dictionary
Estimate at Completion
Control Account
Free Float