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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
WBS Dictionary
Code of Accounts
Assumption
Staffing Management Plan
2. 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.
Change Control
Variance Analysis
Progressive Elaboration
Summary Activity
3. 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.
Earned Value
Opportunity
Risk Register
Program Management
4. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Free Float
Phase Gate
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Most Likely Duration
5. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Bottom-up Estimating
Percent Complete
Early Start Date
Crashing
6. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Project Charter
Lead
Optimistic Duration
Project Phase
7. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Threat
Project Management Plan
Variance at Completion
Risk Register
8. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Logical Relationship
Control Account
Critical Path Method
Project Schedule Network Diagram
9. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Finish-to-Finish
Estimate to Complete
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Project Management Office
10. 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.
Scope Baseline
Requirement
Scope Management Plan
Discrete Effort
11. 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 Management
Project Management
Scope Management Plan
12. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Free Float
Project Manager
Schedule Management Plan
Project Calendar
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
Total Float
Requirement
Performing Organization
14. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Late Start Date
Schedule Performance Index
Risk Acceptance
Estimate at Completion
15. 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.
Portfolio Balancing
Threat
Finish-to-Finish
Gantt Chart
16. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Code of Accounts
Actual Cost
Corrective Action
Schedule Baseline
17. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Summary Activity
S-Curve Analysis
Corrective Action
18. 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.
Phase Gate
Program
Decomposition
Analogous Estimating
19. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Program Management Office
Trigger Condition
Schedule Compression
Estimate to Complete
20. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Constraint
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Project Life Cycle
Human Resource Plan
21. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Summary Activity
Successor Activity
Schedule Model
Secondary Risk
22. 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.
To-Complete Performance Index
Performing Organization
Free Float
Organizational Process Assets
23. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Program
Cost Variance
Milestone
Finish-to-Finish
24. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Threat
S-Curve Analysis
Assumption
Predecessor Activity
25. A group of potential causes of risk.
Free Float
Risk Category
Planned Value
Critical Chain Method
26. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Effort
Scope Baseline
Project Scope
27. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Cost Management Plan
Risk Management Plan
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Data Date
28. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Risk Category
Risk Register
Schedule Model
29. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Discrete Effort
Project
Control Account
Risk Acceptance
30. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Late Start Date
Risk Avoidance
Procurement Management Plan
Stakeholder
31. 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.
Scope Baseline
Data Date
Gantt Chart
Project Life Cycle
32. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Start-to-Start
WBS Dictionary
Critical Path Method
Quality Management Plan
33. 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.)
Risk Acceptance
Discrete Effort
Schedule Management Plan
Corrective Action
34. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Planned Value
Risk Acceptance
Project Scope Statement
Logical Relationship
35. The knowledge gained during a project which shows how project events were addressed or should be addressed in the future for the purpose of improving future performance
Percent Complete
Lessons Learned
Backward Pass
Predecessor Activity
36. A review at the end of a phase in which a decision is made to continue to the next phase - to continue with modification - or to end a project or program.
Summary Activity
Schedule Performance Index
Phase Gate
Pessimistic Duration
37. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Change Request
Project Scope
Change Control System
Fast Tracking
38. 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.)
Risk Avoidance
Total Float
Level of Effort
Lag
39. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Control Account
WBS Dictionary
Cost Management Plan
Deliverable
40. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Scope Management Plan
Trigger Condition
Estimate at Completion
Deliverable
41. 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.
Schedule Model
Quality Management Plan
Progressive Elaboration
Gantt Chart
42. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Project
Start-to-Start
Parametric Estimating
Effort
43. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Successor Activity
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Organizational Breakdown Structure
To-Complete Performance Index
44. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Project Life Cycle
Lessons Learned
What-If Sce
Deliverable
45. 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.
Earned Value Management
Fast Tracking
Assumption
Risk Transference
46. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Resource Calendar
Predecessor Activity
Gantt Chart
Project Scope Statement
47. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Preventive Action
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Pessimistic Duration
Scope Baseline
48. 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.
Free Float
Project Management
Path Divergence
Portfolio Balancing
49. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Actual Cost
Quality Management Plan
Risk Mitigation
Requirements Management Plan
50. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Scope Management Plan
Secondary Risk
Cost Management Plan
Acceptance Criteria