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PMI Project Management Vocab

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1. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.






2. 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






3. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.






4. 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.






5. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.






6. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.






7. 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.






8. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.






9. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.






10. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.






11. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.






12. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.






16. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.






17. 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.






18. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.






19. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.






20. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.






21. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.






22. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.






23. 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.






24. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.






25. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.






26. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.






27. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.






28. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.






29. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.






30. 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.






31. 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






32. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.






33. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.






34. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.






35. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.






36. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.






37. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.






38. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.






39. 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.






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.






41. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.






42. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.






43. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.






44. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.






45. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.






46. 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.






47. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.






48. 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.






49. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.






50. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.