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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Decision Tree Analysis
Procurement Management Plan
Progressive Elaboration
Scope Creep
2. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Parametric Estimating
Logical Relationship
Project Management Office
Discrete Effort
3. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Lag
Progressive Elaboration
Effort
Bottom-up Estimating
4. The amount of budget deficit or surplus at a given point in time - expressed as the difference between the earned value and the actual cost.
Finish-to-Finish
Cost Variance
Rolling Wave Planning
Enterprise Environmental Factors
5. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Most Likely Duration
Project Life Cycle
Finish-to-Start
Program
6. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Human Resource Plan
Three-Point Estimate
Actual Cost
7. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Progressive Elaboration
Risk
Secondary Risk
Baseline
8. 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.
Project Schedule
Schedule Model
Schedule Performance Index
Baseline
9. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Effort
Late Start Date
Forward Pass
Actual Cost
10. 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.
Change Control
Critical Path Method
Progressive Elaboration
Organizational Breakdown Structure
11. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Project Phase
Communication Management Plan
Scope Management Plan
Risk Mitigation
12. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Free Float
Portfolio
Program Management
Bottom-up Estimating
13. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Project Management Plan
Change Control System
Code of Accounts
Budget at Completion
14. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Percent Complete
Finish-to-Finish
Control Account
Bottom-up Estimating
15. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Communication Management Plan
Project Scope
Risk Breakdown Structure
16. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Risk Transference
Finish-to-Start
Project Manager
Decomposition
17. 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.
Requirements Management Plan
Precedence Diagramming Method
Defect Repair
Threat
18. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Portfolio Management
Project Phase
Corrective Action
Path Convergence
19. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
S-Curve Analysis
Schedule Model
Lag
Project Life Cycle
20. In the critical path method - the latest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can finish based on the schedule network logic - the project completion date - and any schedule constraints.
Bottom-up Estimating
Constraint
Total Float
Late Finish Date
21. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Change Control
Activity
Risk Register
Effort
22. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Critical Path
Variance at Completion
Analogous Estimating
Change Request
23. 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.
Earned Value Management
Bottom-up Estimating
Program Management
Project Management Office
24. 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.
Human Resource Plan
Lag
Cost Performance Index
Early Finish Date
25. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
S-Curve Analysis
Percent Complete
Late Finish Date
Opportunity
26. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Decision Tree Analysis
What-If Sce
Scope Baseline
Optimistic Duration
27. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Risk Management Plan
Project Schedule
Precedence Diagramming Method
28. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Risk Avoidance
Finish-to-Start
Apportioned Effort
Start-to-Finish
29. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Risk Acceptance
Successor Activity
Staffing Management Plan
30. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Risk Breakdown Structure
To-Complete Performance Index
Project Scope Statement
Change Request
31. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Project Scope
Opportunity
Project
Portfolio
32. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Project Life Cycle
Estimate to Complete
Project Schedule
Product Life Cycle
33. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Scope Management Plan
Lessons Learned
Assumption
Budget at Completion
34. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Stakeholder
Change Control Board
Risk Management Plan
Early Finish Date
35. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Stakeholder
Successor Activity
Late Finish Date
Bottom-up Estimating
36. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Project Management Plan
Parametric Estimating
S-Curve Analysis
Successor Activity
37. 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.
Late Start Date
Schedule Model Analysis
Portfolio Balancing
Actual Cost
38. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Project Phase
Pessimistic Duration
Defect Repair
Project Schedule Network Diagram
39. 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.
Early Start Date
Data Date
Finish-to-Finish
Schedule Management Plan
40. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Control Account
Lead
Resource Breakdown Structure
Preventive Action
41. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Budget at Completion
Milestone
Risk Acceptance
42. 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.)
Scope Management Plan
Discrete Effort
Requirement
Schedule Compression
43. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Cost Variance
Project Phase
Start-to-Start
44. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Discrete Effort
Pessimistic Duration
Estimate to Complete
45. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Schedule Compression
WBS Dictionary
Change Control
Code of Accounts
46. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Fast Tracking
Path Convergence
Logical Relationship
Scope Creep
47. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Fast Tracking
Program Management Office
Control Account
Project
48. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Product Life Cycle
Rolling Wave Planning
Acceptance Criteria
Schedule Baseline
49. 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.
Path Convergence
Project Scope
Baseline
Schedule Model Analysis
50. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Estimate at Completion
Earned Value
Opportunity
Organizational Process Assets