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PMI Project Management Vocab

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1. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.






2. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.






3. 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.






4. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.






5. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.






6. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.






7. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.






8. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.






9. A group of potential causes of risk.






10. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.






11. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.






12. A critical path method technique for calculating the early start and early finish dates by working forward through the schedule model from the project start date or a given point in time.






13. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.






14. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.






15. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.






16. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.






17. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.






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.






19. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.






20. 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.






21. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.






22. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.






23. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.






24. A technique in which start and finish dates are adjusted based on resource constraints with the goal of balancing demand for resources with the available supply.






25. 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.






26. 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






27. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.






28. 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.)






29. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.






30. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.






31. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.






32. 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.






33. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.






34. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.






35. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.






36. 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.)






37. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.






41. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.






42. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.






49. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.






50. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.