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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Backward Pass
Schedule Management Plan
Stakeholder
Performing Organization
2. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Logical Relationship
Baseline
Path Divergence
Trigger Condition
3. 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.
Free Float
Threat
Requirement
Level of Effort
4. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Total Float
Opportunity
Quality Management Plan
Phase Gate
5. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Project Calendar
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Earned Value Management
Project Management
6. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Lessons Learned
Risk
Program Management
Earned Value
7. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Risk Management Plan
Quality Management Plan
Backward Pass
Change Request
8. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Scope Creep
Change Control
Risk Category
Late Finish Date
9. 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.
Forward Pass
To-Complete Performance Index
Path Divergence
Decomposition
10. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Late Finish Date
Estimate to Complete
Actual Cost
Summary Activity
11. 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.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Schedule Variance
Path Convergence
Backward Pass
12. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Late Finish Date
Path Convergence
Early Finish Date
Activity
13. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Apportioned Effort
Risk Transference
Corrective Action
Communication Management Plan
14. 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.
Project Charter
To-Complete Performance Index
Bottom-up Estimating
Analogous Estimating
15. 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.
Risk
Staffing Management Plan
Precedence Diagramming Method
Program Management
16. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that is required to be produced to complete a process - phase - or project.
Deliverable
Project Calendar
Most Likely Duration
Project Phase
17. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
To-Complete Performance Index
Finish-to-Finish
Change Control
Decision Tree Analysis
18. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Deliverable
Portfolio
Program Management Office
Variance Analysis
19. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Constraint
Critical Path Method
Schedule Baseline
Project Scope Statement
20. 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.
Program Management Office
Early Start Date
Resource Leveling
Requirements Management Plan
21. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Risk Acceptance
Change Control System
Estimate to Complete
Schedule Management Plan
22. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Risk Acceptance
Estimate at Completion
Change Request
Probability and Impact Matrix
23. 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.
Change Control System
Critical Path Method
Risk Breakdown Structure
Risk
24. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Most Likely Duration
Forward Pass
Scope Creep
25. 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.
Fast Tracking
Crashing
Change Control
Percent Complete
26. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Project Calendar
Project
Opportunity
Precedence Diagramming Method
27. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Defect Repair
Variance Analysis
Procurement Management Plan
Summary Activity
28. 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.)
Start-to-Start
Sponsor
Deliverable
Discrete Effort
29. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Earned Value
Threat
Product Life Cycle
Organizational Breakdown Structure
30. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Project Management Office
Assumption
Path Divergence
Critical Path Method
31. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Earned Value
Risk Avoidance
Communication Management Plan
Predecessor Activity
32. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Staffing Management Plan
Milestone
Total Float
Portfolio
33. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Scope Baseline
Procurement Management Plan
Schedule Compression
Schedule Performance Index
34. 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.
Analogous Estimating
Rolling Wave Planning
Cost Performance Index
Resource Calendar
35. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Percent Complete
Analogous Estimating
Early Start Date
Project Phase
36. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Lessons Learned
Acceptance Criteria
Portfolio Balancing
Critical Path
37. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Threat
Schedule Variance
Milestone
Quality Management Plan
38. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Early Finish Date
Predecessor Activity
Decomposition
Project Manager
39. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Lead
Secondary Risk
Progressive Elaboration
Schedule Compression
40. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Risk Avoidance
Program Management Office
Scope Baseline
Milestone
41. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Critical Path
Requirement
Gantt Chart
Data Date
42. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Project Management
Threat
Path Divergence
Start-to-Start
43. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Project Life Cycle
Risk Category
Critical Path Method
Change Control Board
44. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Effort
Gantt Chart
Risk Register
Risk Mitigation
45. 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.)
Resource Calendar
Level of Effort
Project Life Cycle
Project Management
46. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Change Request
Estimate to Complete
S-Curve Analysis
Start-to-Finish
47. 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.
Performing Organization
Project Charter
Cost Variance
To-Complete Performance Index
48. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Total Float
What-If Sce
Portfolio Balancing
Schedule Model
49. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Schedule Model
Logical Relationship
S-Curve Analysis
Total Float
50. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Assumption
Product Life Cycle
Preventive Action
Pessimistic Duration