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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A method used to estimate the minimum project duration and determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on the logical network paths within the schedule model.
Finish-to-Start
Code of Accounts
Change Control Board
Critical Path Method
2. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Early Finish Date
Variance at Completion
Scope Creep
Critical Path
3. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Estimate at Completion
Early Finish Date
Earned Value Management
Bottom-up Estimating
4. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Change Request
Assumption
Start-to-Finish
Rolling Wave Planning
5. A critical path method technique for calculating the late start and late finish dates by working backward through the schedule model from the project end date.
Gantt Chart
Change Control Board
Product Life Cycle
Backward Pass
6. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Scope Baseline
Start-to-Start
Estimate to Complete
Requirements Management Plan
7. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Program Management Office
Threat
Percent Complete
Project
8. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Budget at Completion
Quality Management Plan
Path Convergence
Opportunity
9. An activity that can be planned and measured and that yields a specific output. (Note: Discrete effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance.)
Free Float
Discrete Effort
Finish-to-Start
Most Likely Duration
10. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Requirements Management Plan
Analogous Estimating
Procurement Management Plan
Preventive Action
11. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Bottom-up Estimating
Resource Breakdown Structure
Precedence Diagramming Method
Change Control Board
12. 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.
Project Schedule
Free Float
Precedence Diagramming Method
Schedule Baseline
13. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Crashing
Change Control Board
Preventive Action
Project
14. A technique used to estimate cost or duration by applying an average of optimistic - pessimistic - and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates.
Defect Repair
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Three-Point Estimate
15. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Risk Mitigation
Risk Management Plan
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Parametric Estimating
16. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Resource Calendar
Three-Point Estimate
Risk Breakdown Structure
Project Phase
17. 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.
Cost Variance
Scope Baseline
Effort
Critical Chain Method
18. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Progressive Elaboration
Project Management Office
Code of Accounts
Trigger Condition
19. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Organizational Process Assets
Variance at Completion
Project Management Plan
20. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Change Control Board
Code of Accounts
Risk Category
Start-to-Finish
21. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Estimate to Complete
Code of Accounts
Predecessor Activity
Path Convergence
22. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Late Start Date
Change Request
Path Convergence
Project Scope
23. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Successor Activity
Three-Point Estimate
Crashing
Predecessor Activity
24. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that is required to be produced to complete a process - phase - or project.
Product Life Cycle
Schedule Model Analysis
Scope Creep
Deliverable
25. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio Management
Risk Transference
Procurement Management Plan
Critical Chain Method
26. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Stakeholder
Earned Value
Staffing Management Plan
Change Control System
27. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Program Management
Lead
Baseline
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
28. A measure of the cost performance that is required to be achieved with the remaining resources in order to meet a specified management goal - expressed as the ratio of the cost to finish the outstanding work to the remaining budget.
Code of Accounts
To-Complete Performance Index
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Predecessor Activity
29. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Program Management Office
Defect Repair
Schedule Variance
Precedence Diagramming Method
30. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Assumption
Three-Point Estimate
Portfolio Balancing
Secondary Risk
31. 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
Change Control Board
Start-to-Start
Communication Management Plan
32. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Cost Management Plan
Apportioned Effort
Critical Path Activity
Requirements Traceability Matrix
33. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Total Float
Project Management
Fast Tracking
34. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Project Manager
What-If Sce
Staffing Management Plan
Control Account
35. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
WBS Dictionary
Requirement
Code of Accounts
Program Management
36. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Apportioned Effort
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Summary Activity
37. 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
Lessons Learned
Acceptance Criteria
Crashing
Resource Leveling
38. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
WBS Dictionary
To-Complete Performance Index
Path Divergence
Variance Analysis
39. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Project Schedule
Corrective Action
Most Likely Duration
Project Management Office
40. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Schedule Baseline
Threat
Schedule Model Analysis
Earned Value
41. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
What-If Sce
Assumption
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
S-Curve Analysis
42. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Organizational Process Assets
Schedule Model
Phase Gate
Parametric Estimating
43. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Opportunity
Optimistic Duration
Late Start Date
Organizational Project Management Maturity
44. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Planned Value
Pessimistic Duration
Critical Chain Method
Probability and Impact Matrix
45. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Risk
Constraint
Analogous Estimating
Early Finish Date
46. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Rolling Wave Planning
Control Account
Schedule Management Plan
Crashing
47. 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.
Free Float
Percent Complete
Human Resource Plan
Code of Accounts
48. A review at the end of a phase in which a decision is made to continue to the next phase - to continue with modification - or to end a project or program.
Phase Gate
Cost Management Plan
Assumption
Gantt Chart
49. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Critical Path Method
To-Complete Performance Index
Sponsor
Budget at Completion
50. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Critical Chain Method
Product Life Cycle
Decomposition
WBS Dictionary