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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Change Control Board
Project Management
Schedule Management Plan
Procurement Management Plan
2. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Schedule Variance
Staffing Management Plan
Assumption
Acceptance Criteria
3. 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.
Risk Mitigation
Finish-to-Start
Baseline
Trigger Condition
4. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Change Control System
Path Divergence
Organizational Process Assets
Organizational Breakdown Structure
5. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Risk Register
Logical Relationship
Stakeholder
Staffing Management Plan
6. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Summary Activity
Estimate to Complete
Risk Avoidance
Schedule Variance
7. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Change Control System
Discrete Effort
Resource Leveling
Risk Category
8. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Opportunity
Project Calendar
Start-to-Finish
Percent Complete
9. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Requirements Management Plan
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Most Likely Duration
Logical Relationship
10. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Program Management Office
Organizational Process Assets
Constraint
Risk Breakdown Structure
11. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Resource Leveling
Program Management Office
Total Float
Milestone
12. 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.
Procurement Management Plan
Cost Management Plan
Probability and Impact Matrix
Change Control Board
13. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Risk Mitigation
Constraint
Critical Path Method
Assumption
14. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Earned Value Management
Schedule Performance Index
Schedule Model
Human Resource Plan
15. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Pessimistic Duration
Earned Value Management
Opportunity
Defect Repair
16. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Requirements Management Plan
Fast Tracking
Critical Chain Method
Earned Value
17. 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.
Lessons Learned
Parametric Estimating
Finish-to-Start
Scope Baseline
18. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Code of Accounts
Schedule Baseline
Discrete Effort
Opportunity
19. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Constraint
Decision Tree Analysis
Three-Point Estimate
Schedule Model Analysis
20. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Logical Relationship
Variance at Completion
Phase Gate
Finish-to-Finish
21. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Path Convergence
Project Phase
Estimate to Complete
Earned Value
22. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Actual Cost
Critical Path Activity
Threat
Percent Complete
23. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Percent Complete
Human Resource Plan
Risk
24. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
What-If Sce
Secondary Risk
Human Resource Plan
Estimate at Completion
25. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Acceptance Criteria
Phase Gate
Risk Category
Opportunity
26. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Scope Creep
Project Scope Statement
Start-to-Finish
Milestone
27. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Risk Register
Project
Path Divergence
Performing Organization
28. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Schedule Variance
Organizational Breakdown Structure
WBS Dictionary
Optimistic Duration
29. 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
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Effort
Project Calendar
30. 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.
Gantt Chart
Opportunity
Late Start Date
Control Account
31. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Variance Analysis
Late Start Date
Discrete Effort
Acceptance Criteria
32. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Procurement Management Plan
Resource Breakdown Structure
Project Management Office
Requirements Traceability Matrix
33. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Program Management
Schedule Model Analysis
WBS Dictionary
Stakeholder
34. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Project Life Cycle
Estimate to Complete
Start-to-Finish
Communication Management Plan
35. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Schedule Variance
S-Curve Analysis
Resource Breakdown Structure
Threat
36. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Analogous Estimating
Schedule Model
Phase Gate
Cost Performance Index
37. 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.
WBS Dictionary
Path Convergence
Backward Pass
Bottom-up Estimating
38. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Summary Activity
Logical Relationship
Estimate at Completion
39. 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.
Cost Variance
Project Scope
Resource Breakdown Structure
Risk Management Plan
40. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Project Schedule
Total Float
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Management Office
41. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Risk Management Plan
Project Management Plan
Project Calendar
Product Life Cycle
42. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Actual Cost
Analogous Estimating
Cost Management Plan
Risk Transference
43. 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.
Resource Leveling
Rolling Wave Planning
Human Resource Plan
Schedule Performance Index
44. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Schedule Performance Index
Risk Category
Successor Activity
45. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Critical Chain Method
Parametric Estimating
Risk Management Plan
Resource Calendar
46. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Cost Variance
Successor Activity
Bottom-up Estimating
Finish-to-Start
47. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Scope Baseline
Risk Register
Assumption
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
48. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
To-Complete Performance Index
Late Finish Date
Schedule Model Analysis
Activity
49. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Fast Tracking
Apportioned Effort
Lead
Performing Organization
50. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Risk Mitigation
Portfolio Balancing
Risk Register
Assumption