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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Change Control Board
Project Phase
Critical Chain Method
Level of Effort
2. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Project Management Office
Project Schedule
Quality Management Plan
Most Likely Duration
3. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Scope Creep
Resource Calendar
Finish-to-Start
Corrective Action
4. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Risk Mitigation
Project Charter
Change Control Board
Effort
5. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Project Management Office
Communication Management Plan
Predecessor Activity
Project Management
6. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Communication Management Plan
Product Life Cycle
Effort
7. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Stakeholder
Effort
Three-Point Estimate
8. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Most Likely Duration
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Constraint
Decision Tree Analysis
9. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Critical Chain Method
Probability and Impact Matrix
Schedule Management Plan
Most Likely Duration
10. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed or extended from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.
Optimistic Duration
Total Float
Phase Gate
Risk Acceptance
11. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Parametric Estimating
Project Phase
Project Calendar
Acceptance Criteria
12. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Project Schedule
Budget at Completion
Change Control System
Critical Path Activity
13. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Late Start Date
Path Convergence
Early Start Date
Cost Management Plan
14. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Discrete Effort
Procurement Management Plan
To-Complete Performance Index
Program Management Office
15. 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.
Trigger Condition
Summary Activity
Human Resource Plan
To-Complete Performance Index
16. 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
Resource Breakdown Structure
Level of Effort
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
17. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Project Life Cycle
Actual Cost
Budget at Completion
18. 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.)
Schedule Baseline
Bottom-up Estimating
Project Manager
Discrete Effort
19. 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.
Rolling Wave Planning
Deliverable
Stakeholder
Project Manager
20. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Calendar
Deliverable
21. 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.
Change Control
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Product Life Cycle
Three-Point Estimate
22. A critical path method technique for calculating the early start and early finish dates by working forward through the schedule model from the project start date or a given point in time.
Opportunity
Schedule Performance Index
Corrective Action
Forward Pass
23. 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.
Corrective Action
Backward Pass
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Opportunity
24. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Quality Management Plan
Optimistic Duration
Code of Accounts
S-Curve Analysis
25. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Schedule Compression
Project Management
Portfolio Management
Logical Relationship
26. In the critical path method - the earliest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can finish based on the schedule network logic - the data date - and any schedule constraints.
Path Divergence
Optimistic Duration
What-If Sce
Early Finish Date
27. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Trigger Condition
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Product Life Cycle
Portfolio Balancing
28. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Decision Tree Analysis
Risk Breakdown Structure
What-If Sce
Trigger Condition
29. 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.
Program
Cost Variance
Activity
Most Likely Duration
30. 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
Project Management Office
Acceptance Criteria
Variance Analysis
31. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Project Calendar
Preventive Action
Resource Breakdown Structure
Variance Analysis
32. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Assumption
Change Control
Risk Avoidance
Variance Analysis
33. 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.)
Portfolio Balancing
Cost Performance Index
Level of Effort
Fast Tracking
34. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Three-Point Estimate
Code of Accounts
Schedule Performance Index
35. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Project Schedule
Start-to-Finish
Optimistic Duration
Project Manager
36. An activity where effort is allotted proportionately across certain discrete efforts and not divisible into discrete efforts. (Note: Apportioned effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance
Start-to-Start
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Quality Management Plan
Apportioned Effort
37. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Estimate to Complete
Schedule Model Analysis
Portfolio
38. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Schedule Variance
Organizational Process Assets
Risk Register
Requirement
39. A group of potential causes of risk.
Preventive Action
Resource Breakdown Structure
Acceptance Criteria
Risk Category
40. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Opportunity
Decision Tree Analysis
Risk Breakdown Structure
Risk
41. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Predecessor Activity
Staffing Management Plan
Analogous Estimating
Actual Cost
42. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Staffing Management Plan
Free Float
Risk Avoidance
Cost Performance Index
43. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Project Calendar
Assumption
Lead
Late Start Date
44. 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.
Schedule Baseline
Precedence Diagramming Method
Project
Critical Path Activity
45. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Scope Management Plan
Apportioned Effort
Planned Value
Risk Category
46. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Code of Accounts
Cost Variance
Apportioned Effort
Change Request
47. 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
Control Account
Lessons Learned
Risk Category
Risk Mitigation
48. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Project Manager
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Decomposition
49. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Schedule Performance Index
Estimate to Complete
Critical Path Method
Portfolio
50. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Project
Level of Effort
Probability and Impact Matrix
Data Date