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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Path Divergence
Crashing
Quality Management Plan
Cost Performance Index
2. 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.
Late Start Date
Schedule Model
Project
Parametric Estimating
3. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Risk Transference
Preventive Action
Risk
Sponsor
4. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Program Management Office
Fast Tracking
Path Divergence
Free Float
5. 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.
Deliverable
What-If Sce
Critical Chain Method
Schedule Baseline
6. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Risk Transference
Deliverable
Trigger Condition
Stakeholder
7. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Quality Management Plan
Rolling Wave Planning
Performing Organization
Backward Pass
8. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Critical Chain Method
Lessons Learned
Preventive Action
Pessimistic Duration
9. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Stakeholder
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Critical Path
10. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Preventive Action
Planned Value
What-If Sce
Activity
11. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Portfolio Balancing
Progressive Elaboration
Schedule Management Plan
Lessons Learned
12. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Actual Cost
Risk Mitigation
Project
Variance at Completion
13. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Resource Calendar
Project Management Office
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Scope Creep
14. 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.
Project Schedule
Critical Path Method
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Program Management
15. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Planned Value
Risk Category
Project Management
Milestone
16. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Defect Repair
Constraint
Decomposition
Early Finish Date
17. 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.
Crashing
Early Finish Date
Path Divergence
Program Management
18. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Scope Management Plan
Scope Creep
Cost Management Plan
19. 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
Resource Leveling
Cost Variance
Optimistic Duration
20. A group of potential causes of risk.
Risk Category
Planned Value
Risk Mitigation
Program
21. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Assumption
To-Complete Performance Index
Bottom-up Estimating
Earned Value
22. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Estimate to Complete
Scope Creep
Bottom-up Estimating
Change Control System
23. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Late Start Date
Portfolio Balancing
Corrective Action
Enterprise Environmental Factors
24. 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.)
Project Scope
Discrete Effort
Precedence Diagramming Method
Requirements Management Plan
25. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Project Charter
Scope Baseline
Project Schedule
Path Convergence
26. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Project Manager
Risk Breakdown Structure
Change Control
Earned Value
27. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Effort
Product Life Cycle
Parametric Estimating
Organizational Project Management Maturity
28. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Risk
Estimate to Complete
Apportioned Effort
Enterprise Environmental Factors
29. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Corrective Action
Trigger Condition
Project Charter
Data Date
30. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Project Management Office
Project Phase
Acceptance Criteria
Schedule Management Plan
31. 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.
Requirements Management Plan
Early Start Date
Predecessor Activity
Rolling Wave Planning
32. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Risk Category
Control Account
Baseline
Critical Path Method
33. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
To-Complete Performance Index
Apportioned Effort
Critical Path Activity
Cost Management Plan
34. 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
Late Finish Date
Human Resource Plan
Opportunity
35. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Gantt Chart
Project Management Office
Optimistic Duration
Successor Activity
36. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Change Control System
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Cost Management Plan
Lag
37. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Estimate to Complete
Gantt Chart
Scope Management Plan
Quality Management Plan
38. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Forward Pass
Opportunity
Portfolio Balancing
Variance at Completion
39. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Change Control
Procurement Management Plan
Optimistic Duration
Project Schedule
40. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Risk
Start-to-Finish
Decision Tree Analysis
Backward Pass
41. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Portfolio Balancing
Earned Value Management
Requirements Management Plan
Resource Breakdown Structure
42. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Project Life Cycle
Start-to-Finish
Parametric Estimating
Lead
43. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Stakeholder
Procurement Management Plan
Change Request
Decomposition
44. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Fast Tracking
Schedule Performance Index
Path Divergence
Actual Cost
45. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Earned Value Management
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Constraint
Activity
46. 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
WBS Dictionary
Sponsor
Gantt Chart
47. 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
Resource Breakdown Structure
Project Scope
Project Manager
48. 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.
Apportioned Effort
Project Life Cycle
Stakeholder
Human Resource Plan
49. 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.
Progressive Elaboration
Three-Point Estimate
Estimate at Completion
Resource Leveling
50. 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.
Threat
WBS Dictionary
Optimistic Duration
Late Start Date