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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Project Charter
Finish-to-Start
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Scope Management Plan
2. A group of potential causes of risk.
Forward Pass
Requirement
Risk Category
Most Likely Duration
3. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Crashing
Corrective Action
Schedule Management Plan
Sponsor
4. 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.
Change Control
Early Start Date
Deliverable
Portfolio
5. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Risk Mitigation
Decision Tree Analysis
Path Convergence
Total Float
6. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Defect Repair
Acceptance Criteria
Early Finish Date
Activity
7. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Assumption
Defect Repair
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Risk Mitigation
8. A technique used for constructing a schedule model in which activities are represented by nodes and are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are to be performed.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Pessimistic Duration
Phase Gate
Precedence Diagramming Method
9. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Preventive Action
Requirements Management Plan
Critical Chain Method
Budget at Completion
10. 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.
Risk Management Plan
Constraint
Risk Breakdown Structure
Program Management
11. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Resource Calendar
Earned Value
WBS Dictionary
S-Curve Analysis
12. 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.
Resource Calendar
Finish-to-Start
Program
Progressive Elaboration
13. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Change Request
Program Management
Gantt Chart
Requirements Management Plan
14. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Cost Performance Index
Scope Management Plan
Project Phase
15. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Threat
Schedule Baseline
Optimistic Duration
Most Likely Duration
16. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Schedule Management Plan
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Critical Path Method
Estimate to Complete
17. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Risk Transference
Effort
Defect Repair
Scope Management Plan
18. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Project Management
Finish-to-Finish
Project Scope Statement
Risk Management Plan
19. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Path Divergence
Constraint
Milestone
Change Control System
20. An individual - group - or organization who may affect - be affected by - or perceive itself to be affected by a decision - activity - or outcome of a project - program - or portfolio.
Stakeholder
Portfolio
Three-Point Estimate
Variance at Completion
21. 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.
Procurement Management Plan
Actual Cost
Risk Transference
Program Management
22. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Portfolio
Corrective Action
Path Divergence
Critical Path
23. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Project Phase
Apportioned Effort
Corrective Action
Gantt Chart
24. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Risk Register
Project Scope
Risk
25. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Discrete Effort
Earned Value Management
Successor Activity
Secondary Risk
26. An iterative planning technique in which the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail - while the work in the future is planned at a higher level.
Level of Effort
Change Control System
Rolling Wave Planning
Critical Path Activity
27. 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.
Deliverable
Analogous Estimating
Lead
Project Life Cycle
28. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
WBS Dictionary
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Management Office
Change Control System
29. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
What-If Sce
Assumption
Schedule Variance
Threat
30. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Portfolio Management
Decision Tree Analysis
Program Management Office
Risk Register
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.
Three-Point Estimate
Pessimistic Duration
Baseline
Actual Cost
32. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Percent Complete
Analogous Estimating
Path Convergence
Risk Category
33. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Stakeholder
Scope Creep
WBS Dictionary
Cost Management Plan
34. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships - and staff management will be addressed and structured.
Human Resource Plan
Lessons Learned
Defect Repair
Project Manager
35. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Control Account
Late Start Date
Logical Relationship
36. 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.
Risk Acceptance
Schedule Performance Index
Cost Variance
Human Resource Plan
37. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio
Three-Point Estimate
Late Start Date
Portfolio Management
38. A technique in which start and finish dates are adjusted based on resource constraints with the goal of balancing demand for resources with the available supply.
Resource Leveling
Cost Management Plan
Effort
Change Request
39. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Critical Path Activity
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Program Management Office
Schedule Variance
40. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Performing Organization
Cost Performance Index
Most Likely Duration
Predecessor Activity
41. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Change Control System
Corrective Action
Program Management Office
Threat
42. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Estimate at Completion
Project Management Plan
Resource Breakdown Structure
Project
43. 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.
Portfolio Balancing
Free Float
Sponsor
Predecessor Activity
44. 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.
Pessimistic Duration
To-Complete Performance Index
Scope Baseline
Path Convergence
45. An activity that does not produce definitive end products and is measured by the passage of time. (Note: Level of effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance.)
Performing Organization
Critical Path Activity
Early Start Date
Level of Effort
46. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Code of Accounts
Variance at Completion
Path Convergence
Total Float
47. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Analogous Estimating
Organizational Process Assets
Path Divergence
Start-to-Finish
48. 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
Communication Management Plan
Opportunity
Cost Management Plan
Lessons Learned
49. 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.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Project Scope
Effort
Phase Gate
50. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Critical Path Activity
Path Divergence
Finish-to-Finish
Quality Management Plan