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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Control Account
Product Life Cycle
Crashing
Predecessor Activity
2. 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.
Performing Organization
Phase Gate
Deliverable
Lessons Learned
3. 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 Breakdown Structure
Project Life Cycle
Crashing
4. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Project Scope Statement
Variance at Completion
Schedule Model Analysis
5. 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.
Project Phase
Resource Leveling
Stakeholder
Scope Baseline
6. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Milestone
What-If Sce
Change Request
Planned Value
7. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Effort
Schedule Variance
Lag
8. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Change Control Board
Stakeholder
Project Management Office
Project Scope
9. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Decomposition
Risk
Fast Tracking
Scope Baseline
10. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Phase Gate
Critical Chain Method
Resource Leveling
Threat
11. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Finish-to-Finish
Data Date
Planned Value
Gantt Chart
12. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Decomposition
Most Likely Duration
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Risk Mitigation
13. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Decomposition
Program
Portfolio
Earned Value
14. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Summary Activity
Free Float
Staffing Management Plan
Data Date
15. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Project Management Plan
Critical Path
Variance at Completion
Decision Tree Analysis
16. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Sponsor
Organizational Process Assets
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Critical Path Activity
17. 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.
WBS Dictionary
Free Float
Human Resource Plan
Schedule Compression
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.)
Resource Leveling
Discrete Effort
Early Finish Date
Control Account
19. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Acceptance Criteria
Finish-to-Start
Activity
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
20. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Schedule Management Plan
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Progressive Elaboration
Lead
21. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Cost Management Plan
Most Likely Duration
Acceptance Criteria
Program Management
22. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Risk Acceptance
Forward Pass
Code of Accounts
Program Management Office
23. 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.
Sponsor
Actual Cost
Resource Leveling
Planned Value
24. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Threat
Sponsor
Predecessor Activity
Resource Leveling
25. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Project Management Office
Schedule Baseline
Project Management Plan
Project Scope
26. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Pessimistic Duration
Product Life Cycle
Backward Pass
Discrete Effort
27. 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.
Program Management
What-If Sce
Portfolio
Risk
28. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Earned Value Management
Scope Creep
Portfolio Balancing
Scope Management Plan
29. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Actual Cost
Sponsor
Project Management Office
Project Manager
30. 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.
Scope Baseline
Decision Tree Analysis
Early Finish Date
Project
31. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Project Life Cycle
Actual Cost
Variance Analysis
Optimistic Duration
32. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Optimistic Duration
Corrective Action
Critical Path Method
Actual Cost
33. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Early Finish Date
Parametric Estimating
Acceptance Criteria
What-If Sce
34. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Project
Actual Cost
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Planned Value
35. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Early Start Date
Communication Management Plan
Project Management Office
Logical Relationship
36. 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
Lessons Learned
S-Curve Analysis
Program Management
37. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Trigger Condition
S-Curve Analysis
Project Life Cycle
Effort
38. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Parametric Estimating
Lessons Learned
Critical Path
Schedule Variance
39. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Code of Accounts
Risk Category
Project Schedule
Total Float
40. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Planned Value
Resource Breakdown Structure
Risk Register
Deliverable
41. 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.
Free Float
Schedule Baseline
Precedence Diagramming Method
Project Management Plan
42. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
WBS Dictionary
Predecessor Activity
Backward Pass
Opportunity
43. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Risk Breakdown Structure
Schedule Performance Index
Risk Mitigation
44. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Scope Baseline
Effort
Project Life Cycle
Organizational Project Management Maturity
45. 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
Forward Pass
Program Management Office
Change Control
46. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Project Calendar
Risk Avoidance
Data Date
Constraint
47. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Secondary Risk
Cost Variance
Corrective Action
Scope Baseline
48. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Cost Management Plan
Decision Tree Analysis
Critical Path
Early Start Date
49. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Summary Activity
Critical Path Activity
What-If Sce
Threat
50. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Performing Organization
Logical Relationship
Baseline
Scope Baseline