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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Acceptance Criteria
Three-Point Estimate
Requirements Management Plan
Change Request
2. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Most Likely Duration
Early Finish Date
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
WBS Dictionary
3. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Schedule Compression
Fast Tracking
Schedule Model
Acceptance Criteria
4. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Program Management Office
Critical Path Method
Progressive Elaboration
Variance Analysis
5. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Risk
Schedule Variance
Change Request
Lessons Learned
6. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Project Manager
Decision Tree Analysis
Program Management Office
Requirement
7. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Effort
Progressive Elaboration
Analogous Estimating
Probability and Impact Matrix
8. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Finish-to-Start
Schedule Model Analysis
Logical Relationship
Crashing
9. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Portfolio
Crashing
Milestone
Total Float
10. A group of potential causes of risk.
Risk Category
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Budget at Completion
Finish-to-Start
11. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Schedule Baseline
Schedule Management Plan
Finish-to-Start
Performing Organization
12. 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.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Acceptance Criteria
To-Complete Performance Index
13. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Deliverable
Risk Acceptance
Change Control Board
Logical Relationship
14. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Lessons Learned
Requirements Traceability Matrix
S-Curve Analysis
Schedule Management Plan
15. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Decomposition
Organizational Process Assets
Preventive Action
Requirements Traceability Matrix
16. 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.
Lessons Learned
Free Float
Lag
Milestone
17. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Corrective Action
Lead
Discrete Effort
Cost Variance
18. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Early Start Date
Corrective Action
Estimate at Completion
19. 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.
Progressive Elaboration
Project Phase
Portfolio
Estimate at Completion
20. 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.
Project Management
Schedule Variance
Rolling Wave Planning
Free Float
21. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Optimistic Duration
Requirements Management Plan
Pessimistic Duration
22. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Schedule Performance Index
Fast Tracking
Percent Complete
Risk Acceptance
23. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Bottom-up Estimating
Crashing
Opportunity
Project Charter
24. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Code of Accounts
Discrete Effort
Effort
Organizational Project Management Maturity
25. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Gantt Chart
Preventive Action
Path Convergence
Opportunity
26. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Rolling Wave Planning
Portfolio
Lessons Learned
Communication Management Plan
27. 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.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Change Request
Risk Acceptance
Communication Management Plan
28. 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.
Apportioned Effort
Early Start Date
Optimistic Duration
Resource Breakdown Structure
29. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Cost Performance Index
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Free Float
Constraint
30. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Logical Relationship
Project Management
Scope Management Plan
31. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Project Management Office
Portfolio Management
Risk
Finish-to-Start
32. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Risk Mitigation
S-Curve Analysis
Risk Acceptance
Enterprise Environmental Factors
33. 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.
Late Finish Date
Program Management Office
Resource Leveling
Risk Management Plan
34. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Project Scope
Progressive Elaboration
Threat
Finish-to-Start
35. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Milestone
Decomposition
Variance at Completion
Schedule Model
36. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Cost Performance Index
Change Control Board
Project Scope Statement
Bottom-up Estimating
37. 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.
Program Management Office
Phase Gate
Procurement Management Plan
Path Convergence
38. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Decomposition
Stakeholder
WBS Dictionary
Milestone
39. 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
Schedule Model
Decision Tree Analysis
Decomposition
40. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Communication Management Plan
Project Phase
Risk Management Plan
41. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Defect Repair
Data Date
Parametric Estimating
Budget at Completion
42. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Forward Pass
Three-Point Estimate
Estimate at Completion
Parametric Estimating
43. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Planned Value
Product Life Cycle
Variance at Completion
Resource Calendar
44. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Scope Management Plan
Probability and Impact Matrix
Secondary Risk
Critical Chain Method
45. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Decomposition
Requirement
Sponsor
Project Scope
46. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Activity
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Progressive Elaboration
Finish-to-Finish
47. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Preventive Action
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Trigger Condition
Critical Path Activity
48. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Estimate at Completion
Phase Gate
WBS Dictionary
Project
49. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Scope Creep
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Predecessor Activity
Variance at Completion
50. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Portfolio Balancing
Lead
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Change Control Board