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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. An activity that does not produce definitive end products and is measured by the passage of time. (Note: Level of effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance.)
Requirement
Precedence Diagramming Method
Resource Breakdown Structure
Level of Effort
2. The approved version of a scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) - and its associated WBS dictionary - which can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison.
Product Life Cycle
Risk
Change Control Board
Scope Baseline
3. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Risk Management Plan
Schedule Management Plan
Planned Value
Free Float
4. 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.
Crashing
Requirements Management Plan
Level of Effort
Progressive Elaboration
5. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Schedule Performance Index
Earned Value
Critical Path
Requirements Traceability Matrix
6. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Schedule Baseline
Acceptance Criteria
Risk Transference
Project Charter
7. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Project Calendar
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Path Divergence
Most Likely Duration
8. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Assumption
Risk Acceptance
Start-to-Finish
Product Life Cycle
9. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Early Start Date
Risk Management Plan
Defect Repair
Cost Management Plan
10. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Earned Value Management
Resource Leveling
S-Curve Analysis
Baseline
11. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Schedule Management Plan
Program Management
Baseline
12. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Corrective Action
Risk Avoidance
Project Calendar
Control Account
13. 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.
Project
Total Float
Resource Calendar
Schedule Variance
14. 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.
Corrective Action
Free Float
Product Life Cycle
Program Management
15. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Late Finish Date
Change Control System
Change Request
Control Account
16. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Requirements Management Plan
Stakeholder
Variance at Completion
Late Finish Date
17. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Scope Baseline
Logical Relationship
Variance at Completion
Portfolio Balancing
18. 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.
Critical Path Method
Path Divergence
Program
Backward Pass
19. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Change Control System
Start-to-Finish
Lead
Actual Cost
20. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Apportioned Effort
Schedule Compression
Stakeholder
Organizational Project Management Maturity
21. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
WBS Dictionary
Threat
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Activity
22. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Variance at Completion
Three-Point Estimate
Parametric Estimating
Risk
23. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Schedule Performance Index
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Earned Value Management
Organizational Process Assets
24. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Change Control System
Earned Value Management
Portfolio Balancing
Defect Repair
25. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Cost Management Plan
S-Curve Analysis
Discrete Effort
What-If Sce
26. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Scope Creep
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Risk Mitigation
Program
27. 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.
Backward Pass
Project Charter
Stakeholder
Resource Breakdown Structure
28. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio
Trigger Condition
Project Phase
Planned Value
29. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Risk Avoidance
Project Calendar
Program Management Office
Resource Calendar
30. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Opportunity
Corrective Action
Scope Baseline
Effort
31. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Variance at Completion
Project Management Plan
Project Charter
Project Schedule
32. The approved version of a schedule model that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.
Baseline
Project
Project Schedule
Schedule Baseline
33. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Backward Pass
Human Resource Plan
Project Scope
Late Finish Date
34. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Estimate to Complete
Risk Register
Schedule Variance
Earned Value Management
35. 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.
Lag
Schedule Compression
Late Start Date
Risk Acceptance
36. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Program Management Office
Pessimistic Duration
Schedule Performance Index
Data Date
37. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Summary Activity
Portfolio Balancing
Bottom-up Estimating
38. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Scope Creep
Bottom-up Estimating
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Control Account
39. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Discrete Effort
Risk Acceptance
Opportunity
Decomposition
40. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Apportioned Effort
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Resource Calendar
Pessimistic Duration
41. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Trigger Condition
Earned Value Management
To-Complete Performance Index
S-Curve Analysis
42. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Logical Relationship
Three-Point Estimate
Cost Variance
Program Management Office
43. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Finish-to-Finish
Quality Management Plan
S-Curve Analysis
Project Calendar
44. 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.
Crashing
To-Complete Performance Index
Baseline
Late Finish Date
45. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Project Schedule
Scope Baseline
Human Resource Plan
Project Management
46. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Project Management
Control Account
Change Request
Cost Variance
47. 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
Apportioned Effort
Product Life Cycle
Procurement Management Plan
Cost Management Plan
48. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
S-Curve Analysis
Risk Register
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Project
49. 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.
Lag
Procurement Management Plan
Scope Baseline
Activity
50. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Requirement
Portfolio Management
Free Float
WBS Dictionary