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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Project Scope
What-If Sce
Assumption
Level of Effort
2. 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.
Start-to-Finish
Requirement
Risk Category
Critical Chain Method
3. 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.
Progressive Elaboration
Milestone
Variance Analysis
Budget at Completion
4. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Pessimistic Duration
Risk Register
Gantt Chart
Rolling Wave Planning
5. 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.
Three-Point Estimate
Earned Value
Predecessor Activity
Project Phase
6. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Product Life Cycle
Requirement
Cost Variance
Rolling Wave Planning
7. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Activity
Free Float
Schedule Management Plan
Risk Register
8. 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
Project
Total Float
Summary Activity
9. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Most Likely Duration
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Estimate to Complete
Discrete Effort
10. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Earned Value Management
Schedule Compression
Decision Tree Analysis
Probability and Impact Matrix
11. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Risk Category
Bottom-up Estimating
Risk Management Plan
Program Management Office
12. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Product Life Cycle
Finish-to-Start
Risk Breakdown Structure
Schedule Variance
13. 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.
Baseline
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Performing Organization
Finish-to-Start
14. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Path Divergence
Trigger Condition
Portfolio Balancing
Discrete Effort
15. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Schedule Variance
Schedule Baseline
Actual Cost
Sponsor
16. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Deliverable
Variance Analysis
Portfolio
Discrete Effort
17. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Optimistic Duration
Effort
Threat
Risk Acceptance
18. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Change Control Board
What-If Sce
Requirements Traceability Matrix
19. 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 Avoidance
Program Management
Three-Point Estimate
Trigger Condition
20. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Analogous Estimating
Code of Accounts
Predecessor Activity
Acceptance Criteria
21. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Pessimistic Duration
Control Account
Activity
Change Control
22. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Summary Activity
Cost Performance Index
Finish-to-Start
Schedule Baseline
23. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Project Management Plan
Schedule Model Analysis
Critical Path Method
Finish-to-Finish
24. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
What-If Sce
Risk Mitigation
Baseline
Decomposition
25. 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.)
Organizational Process Assets
Procurement Management Plan
Discrete Effort
Decomposition
26. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Phase Gate
Schedule Compression
Schedule Model
Project Life Cycle
27. In the critical path method - the earliest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can finish based on the schedule network logic - the data date - and any schedule constraints.
Critical Chain Method
Early Finish Date
Corrective Action
Change Control
28. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Resource Leveling
Project Scope Statement
Lag
Cost Performance Index
29. 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.
Logical Relationship
Trigger Condition
Data Date
To-Complete Performance Index
30. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
What-If Sce
Level of Effort
Discrete Effort
Summary Activity
31. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Defect Repair
Parametric Estimating
Earned Value
S-Curve Analysis
32. 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.
Earned Value
Staffing Management Plan
Deliverable
Cost Variance
33. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Risk Management Plan
Risk
Organizational Process Assets
Risk Acceptance
34. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Portfolio Management
Fast Tracking
Successor Activity
Opportunity
35. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Activity
Project
Program Management Office
Estimate to Complete
36. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Project Schedule
Budget at Completion
Quality Management Plan
Portfolio Balancing
37. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Lead
Change Control System
Baseline
Enterprise Environmental Factors
38. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any successor or violating a schedule constraint.
Earned Value Management
Activity
Project Scope
Free Float
39. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Most Likely Duration
Portfolio
Decision Tree Analysis
Lead
40. 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.
Critical Path Activity
Precedence Diagramming Method
Estimate to Complete
Resource Leveling
41. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Variance Analysis
Control Account
Critical Path
Project Schedule
42. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Human Resource Plan
Effort
Scope Baseline
Most Likely Duration
43. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Sponsor
Finish-to-Start
Resource Leveling
Preventive Action
44. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Predecessor Activity
Threat
Finish-to-Finish
Milestone
45. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Project Management Plan
Trigger Condition
Requirements Management Plan
Three-Point Estimate
46. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Planned Value
Schedule Baseline
Milestone
47. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Variance at Completion
Communication Management Plan
Trigger Condition
Project Life Cycle
48. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Early Finish Date
Corrective Action
S-Curve Analysis
Organizational Project Management Maturity
49. 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.
Schedule Model
Fast Tracking
Preventive Action
Procurement Management Plan
50. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Project Phase
Project Schedule
Cost Management Plan
Estimate to Complete