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PMI Project Management Vocab

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1. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.






2. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.






3. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.






4. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.






11. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.






12. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.






13. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.






17. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.






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






19. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.






20. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.






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






33. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.






34. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.






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






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






37. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.






38. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.






39. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.






40. 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.






41. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.






42. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.






43. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.






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






45. 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.






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






47. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.






48. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.






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






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