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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
WBS Dictionary
Code of Accounts
Project Scope Statement
Project Schedule
2. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Schedule Compression
Critical Path
Human Resource Plan
Budget at Completion
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 Register
Change Request
Baseline
Estimate at Completion
4. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Risk Category
WBS Dictionary
Sponsor
5. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Actual Cost
Risk Mitigation
Baseline
Acceptance Criteria
6. 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.
Communication Management Plan
Rolling Wave Planning
Decision Tree Analysis
Project Management
7. 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.
Variance at Completion
Level of Effort
Crashing
Total Float
8. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Logical Relationship
Early Start Date
Predecessor Activity
Budget at Completion
9. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Portfolio
Program Management Office
Organizational Process Assets
Variance at Completion
10. 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
Finish-to-Finish
Three-Point Estimate
Apportioned Effort
Cost Management Plan
11. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
What-If Sce
Project Phase
Analogous Estimating
Lead
12. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Start-to-Finish
Preventive Action
Early Start Date
13. 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.
Program Management
Threat
Scope Baseline
Enterprise Environmental Factors
14. 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
Portfolio
Pessimistic Duration
Risk Transference
15. In the critical path method - the latest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can finish based on the schedule network logic - the project completion date - and any schedule constraints.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Critical Path Activity
Late Finish Date
16. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Change Control System
Risk Acceptance
Scope Creep
Risk Management Plan
17. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
WBS Dictionary
Phase Gate
Total Float
Risk Breakdown Structure
18. 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.
Portfolio Balancing
Late Start Date
Threat
Project Charter
19. A bar chart of schedule information where activities are listed on the vertical axis - dates are shown on the horizontal axis - and activity durations are shown as horizontal bars placed according to start and finish dates.
Earned Value
Cost Variance
Gantt Chart
Resource Leveling
20. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Organizational Process Assets
Analogous Estimating
Backward Pass
Cost Management Plan
21. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
To-Complete Performance Index
Critical Path
Requirements Management Plan
Critical Path Activity
22. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
What-If Sce
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Quality Management Plan
Critical Chain Method
23. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Progressive Elaboration
Risk Avoidance
Scope Creep
Secondary Risk
24. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Assumption
Cost Management Plan
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Schedule Network Diagram
25. 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.
Schedule Baseline
Early Start Date
Percent Complete
Acceptance Criteria
26. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Performing Organization
Activity
Logical Relationship
Portfolio Balancing
27. 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.
Trigger Condition
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Cost Variance
Precedence Diagramming Method
28. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Project Schedule
Critical Path Activity
Sponsor
Fast Tracking
29. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Secondary Risk
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Variance Analysis
Change Control System
30. 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.
Successor Activity
S-Curve Analysis
Early Finish Date
Logical Relationship
31. A group of related projects - subprograms and program activities that are managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually.
Program
Change Control Board
Portfolio Management
Pessimistic Duration
32. 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.
Level of Effort
Progressive Elaboration
Risk
Project Management Plan
33. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Program Management Office
Baseline
Risk Transference
Organizational Process Assets
34. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Forward Pass
Project Scope
Activity
Opportunity
35. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Risk Acceptance
Project Phase
Acceptance Criteria
Percent Complete
36. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Fast Tracking
Project Life Cycle
Gantt Chart
Opportunity
37. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Total Float
Bottom-up Estimating
Risk
Organizational Process Assets
38. 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
Sponsor
Risk Acceptance
Level of Effort
39. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Project Management Office
Organizational Process Assets
Critical Path
40. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Trigger Condition
Start-to-Start
Staffing Management Plan
Data Date
41. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Change Control
Corrective Action
Start-to-Start
Acceptance Criteria
42. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Progressive Elaboration
Corrective Action
Critical Path Method
Risk Management Plan
43. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Milestone
Lag
Lead
44. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Product Life Cycle
Risk Mitigation
Backward Pass
Pessimistic Duration
45. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Resource Calendar
Probability and Impact Matrix
Total Float
Project Management Plan
46. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Procurement Management Plan
Product Life Cycle
Cost Management Plan
Organizational Breakdown Structure
47. 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.
Data Date
Change Control System
Procurement Management Plan
Free Float
48. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Organizational Process Assets
Logical Relationship
Effort
Estimate to Complete
49. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Cost Performance Index
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Schedule Management Plan
Constraint
50. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Change Control
Logical Relationship
Critical Path Method
Forward Pass