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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Deliverable
Effort
Control Account
Three-Point Estimate
2. 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.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Assumption
Resource Leveling
Cost Variance
3. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Schedule Baseline
Early Finish Date
Schedule Management Plan
Project
4. 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
Critical Path
Staffing Management Plan
Early Start Date
5. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Early Start Date
Decomposition
Variance Analysis
6. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Project Management
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Earned Value
Corrective Action
7. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Activity
Control Account
Trigger Condition
Forward Pass
8. 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.
Change Request
Critical Path Activity
Fast Tracking
Deliverable
9. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
S-Curve Analysis
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Scope Baseline
Baseline
10. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Finish-to-Finish
Late Finish Date
Activity
11. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Decision Tree Analysis
Start-to-Start
Lessons Learned
Percent Complete
12. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Staffing Management Plan
Actual Cost
Change Control Board
Cost Management Plan
13. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Lag
Successor Activity
Path Divergence
Opportunity
14. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Program Management
Resource Leveling
Scope Creep
Defect Repair
15. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Project Manager
Summary Activity
Code of Accounts
Scope Baseline
16. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Data Date
Path Divergence
Portfolio
Risk
17. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Schedule Variance
Cost Management Plan
Schedule Baseline
Quality Management Plan
18. 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.
Communication Management Plan
Optimistic Duration
Three-Point Estimate
To-Complete Performance Index
19. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Lag
Risk Transference
Gantt Chart
Project Charter
20. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Bottom-up Estimating
Path Convergence
Sponsor
Portfolio Management
21. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Rolling Wave Planning
Level of Effort
Crashing
Quality Management Plan
22. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Schedule Baseline
Precedence Diagramming Method
Portfolio
Resource Calendar
23. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Project
Schedule Model Analysis
Early Start Date
Risk Mitigation
24. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Project
Project Management Plan
Program Management Office
Staffing Management Plan
25. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Bottom-up Estimating
Risk Category
Critical Path
Organizational Breakdown Structure
26. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Risk
Trigger Condition
Forward Pass
Project Phase
27. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Milestone
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Scope Creep
WBS Dictionary
28. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Cost Management Plan
Progressive Elaboration
Discrete Effort
Performing Organization
29. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Sponsor
Change Request
Late Finish Date
Variance at Completion
30. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Decomposition
Schedule Model
Assumption
Cost Performance Index
31. A group of potential causes of risk.
Risk Category
Parametric Estimating
Lead
Summary Activity
32. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Logical Relationship
Project Manager
Estimate to Complete
Start-to-Start
33. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Critical Chain Method
Schedule Performance Index
Planned Value
Organizational Project Management Maturity
34. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Product Life Cycle
Assumption
Schedule Compression
Requirements Management Plan
35. 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.
Critical Path Method
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Critical Path Activity
Schedule Model
36. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Opportunity
Planned Value
Change Control System
Earned Value Management
37. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Most Likely Duration
Resource Breakdown Structure
Project Scope
Schedule Management Plan
38. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Schedule Model
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Apportioned Effort
Variance at Completion
39. 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.
Budget at Completion
Backward Pass
Resource Leveling
Rolling Wave Planning
40. In the critical path method - the latest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start based on the schedule network logic - the project completion date - and any schedule constraints.
Project Management
Change Control System
Late Start Date
Three-Point Estimate
41. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Actual Cost
Portfolio Balancing
Decision Tree Analysis
Summary Activity
42. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Total Float
Variance Analysis
Quality Management Plan
Corrective Action
43. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Cost Management Plan
Apportioned Effort
Risk Category
Change Control Board
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.
Human Resource Plan
Risk
Schedule Model Analysis
To-Complete Performance Index
45. 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.
Schedule Performance Index
Risk Avoidance
Progressive Elaboration
Earned Value
46. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Critical Path Activity
Resource Calendar
Decision Tree Analysis
Risk Breakdown Structure
47. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Opportunity
Total Float
Project Management
Lag
48. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Risk Avoidance
Discrete Effort
Project Schedule
Risk Management Plan
49. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Fast Tracking
Resource Calendar
Change Control Board
Schedule Performance Index
50. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Early Finish Date
Estimate to Complete
Corrective Action
Late Finish Date