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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Critical Path Activity
Portfolio Management
Schedule Compression
2. A bar chart of schedule information where activities are listed on the vertical axis - dates are shown on the horizontal axis - and activity durations are shown as horizontal bars placed according to start and finish dates.
Gantt Chart
Project Management
Finish-to-Start
Constraint
3. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Risk Mitigation
Change Control Board
Early Finish Date
4. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Decision Tree Analysis
WBS Dictionary
Risk
Change Control
5. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Staffing Management Plan
Schedule Management Plan
Portfolio
Milestone
6. A group of related projects - subprograms and program activities that are managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually.
Risk Category
Budget at Completion
Program
Scope Management Plan
7. 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 Life Cycle
Late Start Date
Planned Value
Finish-to-Finish
8. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Control Account
Organizational Process Assets
Earned Value
Critical Chain Method
9. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Change Control
Schedule Baseline
Planned Value
Project Management Office
10. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Critical Path Activity
Planned Value
Actual Cost
Start-to-Start
11. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Earned Value Management
Critical Path Activity
Code of Accounts
Quality Management Plan
12. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Risk
Apportioned Effort
Schedule Baseline
Quality Management Plan
13. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Backward Pass
Requirements Management Plan
Resource Breakdown Structure
Assumption
14. 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.
Parametric Estimating
Backward Pass
Apportioned Effort
Constraint
15. A condition or capability that is required to be present in a product - service - or result to satisfy a contract or other formally imposed specification.
Human Resource Plan
Finish-to-Start
Control Account
Requirement
16. 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.
Rolling Wave Planning
Schedule Model Analysis
Bottom-up Estimating
Risk Breakdown Structure
17. 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.
Planned Value
Program
Phase Gate
Risk Breakdown Structure
18. A representation of the plan for executing the project's activities including durations - dependencies and other planning information - used to produce a project schedule along with other scheduling artifacts.
S-Curve Analysis
Three-Point Estimate
Change Control Board
Schedule Model
19. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Decomposition
Change Control System
Phase Gate
Lead
20. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Critical Chain Method
Effort
Project Scope Statement
Change Control
21. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Project Scope
Level of Effort
Risk Transference
Secondary Risk
22. 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.
Summary Activity
Progressive Elaboration
Change Request
Baseline
23. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Cost Performance Index
Most Likely Duration
Variance Analysis
24. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
What-If Sce
Communication Management Plan
Opportunity
Decomposition
25. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Resource Calendar
Progressive Elaboration
Project
Opportunity
26. A schedule compression technique in which activities or phases normally done in sequence are performed in parallel for at least a portion of their duration.
Risk
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Schedule Performance Index
Fast Tracking
27. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Control Account
Finish-to-Finish
Estimate to Complete
Project Schedule Network Diagram
28. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Critical Path Activity
Project Scope
Project Management
Successor Activity
29. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Discrete Effort
Estimate to Complete
Project Schedule
Parametric Estimating
30. 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.
Logical Relationship
Free Float
Project Scope Statement
To-Complete Performance Index
31. 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.
What-If Sce
Resource Leveling
Phase Gate
Change Control
32. A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Risk Avoidance
Requirement
What-If Sce
Project Charter
33. 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.
Parametric Estimating
Crashing
Project Life Cycle
Free Float
34. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Scope Creep
Secondary Risk
Three-Point Estimate
Probability and Impact Matrix
35. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Project Phase
Resource Breakdown Structure
Start-to-Finish
Constraint
36. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Critical Path
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Risk Avoidance
Percent Complete
37. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
What-If Sce
Schedule Compression
Earned Value
Critical Path Activity
38. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Project Phase
Risk Transference
Staffing Management Plan
Forward Pass
39. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Stakeholder
Defect Repair
Late Start Date
Decision Tree Analysis
40. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Cost Performance Index
Start-to-Finish
Change Control System
Program
41. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Backward Pass
Precedence Diagramming Method
Organizational Breakdown Structure
42. 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.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Lag
Human Resource Plan
Optimistic Duration
43. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Quality Management Plan
Threat
Milestone
Procurement Management Plan
44. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Resource Calendar
Project Schedule
Optimistic Duration
Corrective Action
45. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Finish-to-Finish
Corrective Action
Resource Leveling
Earned Value
46. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Trigger Condition
Threat
Acceptance Criteria
Cost Variance
47. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Constraint
Path Convergence
To-Complete Performance Index
Effort
48. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Late Finish Date
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Secondary Risk
Requirements Traceability Matrix
49. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Rolling Wave Planning
Probability and Impact Matrix
Summary Activity
Project Management Office
50. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Project Charter
Staffing Management Plan
To-Complete Performance Index
Actual Cost