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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
What-If Sce
Data Date
Critical Path Activity
Early Finish Date
2. 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.
Project Schedule
Portfolio
Rolling Wave Planning
Deliverable
3. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Quality Management Plan
Schedule Management Plan
Program
Risk
4. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Variance at Completion
Risk Mitigation
Threat
Project Management
5. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Project Phase
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Schedule Management Plan
Pessimistic Duration
6. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Performing Organization
Crashing
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Constraint
7. A group of potential causes of risk.
Risk Category
Planned Value
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Earned Value
8. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Change Request
Earned Value
Secondary Risk
Percent Complete
9. 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.
Program Management
Staffing Management Plan
Performing Organization
Gantt Chart
10. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Constraint
Variance Analysis
Code of Accounts
Scope Baseline
11. 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.
Fast Tracking
Risk Register
Project Life Cycle
Precedence Diagramming Method
12. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Risk Mitigation
Change Control Board
Risk Register
Fast Tracking
13. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Optimistic Duration
Earned Value
Scope Management Plan
Project Phase
14. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Data Date
Late Finish Date
Project Life Cycle
Risk Mitigation
15. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Control Account
Corrective Action
Deliverable
Budget at Completion
16. 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.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Finish-to-Start
Change Request
Critical Path Method
17. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
What-If Sce
Logical Relationship
To-Complete Performance Index
Risk Avoidance
18. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Risk
Stakeholder
Start-to-Start
Lessons Learned
19. 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.)
Schedule Variance
Discrete Effort
Project Schedule
Parametric Estimating
20. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Project
Risk Category
Critical Path Activity
Change Request
21. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Stakeholder
Effort
Parametric Estimating
Progressive Elaboration
22. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
To-Complete Performance Index
Rolling Wave Planning
Free Float
Staffing Management Plan
23. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Summary Activity
Analogous Estimating
Project Schedule
Fast Tracking
24. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Phase Gate
Risk Category
Constraint
Risk Transference
25. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Stakeholder
Decision Tree Analysis
To-Complete Performance Index
Critical Path Activity
26. 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.
Actual Cost
Risk
Stakeholder
Risk Mitigation
27. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Gantt Chart
Schedule Model
Project Management
Risk Breakdown Structure
28. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Corrective Action
Project Management
Schedule Variance
Cost Variance
29. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Change Control
What-If Sce
Schedule Performance Index
Lag
30. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Project Management Office
Assumption
Successor Activity
Organizational Process Assets
31. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Portfolio
Crashing
Preventive Action
Control Account
32. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Cost Performance Index
Project Management
Critical Chain Method
33. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Project Management
Finish-to-Finish
Trigger Condition
Probability and Impact Matrix
34. 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.
What-If Sce
Project Life Cycle
Project Phase
Schedule Baseline
35. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Free Float
Risk Avoidance
Enterprise Environmental Factors
36. 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.)
Phase Gate
Portfolio
Most Likely Duration
Level of Effort
37. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Risk Transference
Portfolio Management
Estimate to Complete
Forward Pass
38. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Rolling Wave Planning
Project
Fast Tracking
Portfolio Balancing
39. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Risk Mitigation
Project Calendar
40. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Risk Transference
Optimistic Duration
Project Management Office
Code of Accounts
41. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Apportioned Effort
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Percent Complete
Schedule Model Analysis
42. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Program
Risk Breakdown Structure
Deliverable
Probability and Impact Matrix
43. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Lag
Acceptance Criteria
Threat
Program
44. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Schedule Compression
Predecessor Activity
Human Resource Plan
Schedule Model Analysis
45. 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.
Project Management Office
Project Schedule Network Diagram
To-Complete Performance Index
Late Finish Date
46. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Fast Tracking
Resource Calendar
Change Control Board
Start-to-Start
47. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Assumption
Baseline
Procurement Management Plan
WBS Dictionary
48. 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.
Project
WBS Dictionary
Risk Register
Program
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.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Three-Point Estimate
Risk Breakdown Structure
Project Management Plan
50. 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.
Late Finish Date
Decomposition
Project Charter
Probability and Impact Matrix