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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Late Finish Date
Control Account
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Project Life Cycle
2. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Threat
Risk Acceptance
Path Convergence
Control Account
3. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Early Finish Date
Procurement Management Plan
Project Manager
S-Curve Analysis
4. 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.
Requirement
Predecessor Activity
Variance at Completion
Program Management Office
5. 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
Project Charter
Budget at Completion
Finish-to-Start
6. 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
Finish-to-Start
Three-Point Estimate
Schedule Baseline
Lessons Learned
7. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Level of Effort
Scope Creep
WBS Dictionary
Critical Chain Method
8. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Change Control System
Data Date
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Percent Complete
9. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Path Convergence
Level of Effort
Risk Acceptance
Organizational Breakdown Structure
10. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Estimate at Completion
Progressive Elaboration
Program Management
Sponsor
11. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Path Convergence
Predecessor Activity
Precedence Diagramming Method
Rolling Wave Planning
12. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Successor Activity
Project Scope
Procurement Management Plan
Finish-to-Start
13. A critical path method technique for calculating the late start and late finish dates by working backward through the schedule model from the project end date.
Risk Register
Schedule Performance Index
Finish-to-Finish
Backward Pass
14. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Scope Creep
Effort
Most Likely Duration
Critical Path Activity
15. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Change Request
Stakeholder
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Schedule Variance
16. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Summary Activity
Late Finish Date
Variance Analysis
Crashing
17. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Preventive Action
Total Float
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Schedule Model
18. 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.
Progressive Elaboration
Requirements Traceability Matrix
What-If Sce
Project Phase
19. 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.
Cost Management Plan
Resource Calendar
Free Float
Three-Point Estimate
20. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Project Management
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Project Scope Statement
Baseline
21. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Control Account
Planned Value
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Optimistic Duration
22. 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
Scope Baseline
Fast Tracking
Program Management
23. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Forward Pass
Change Control Board
Actual Cost
Progressive Elaboration
24. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Portfolio Balancing
Phase Gate
Cost Performance Index
25. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Effort
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Risk
Decision Tree Analysis
26. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Successor Activity
Start-to-Start
Schedule Performance Index
Bottom-up Estimating
27. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Project Phase
Logical Relationship
Quality Management Plan
Sponsor
28. 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.
Variance Analysis
Optimistic Duration
Late Finish Date
Successor Activity
29. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Staffing Management Plan
Requirement
Project Scope
Schedule Compression
30. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Assumption
Schedule Performance Index
Level of Effort
WBS Dictionary
31. 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.
Project Scope Statement
To-Complete Performance Index
WBS Dictionary
Rolling Wave Planning
32. 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.
Late Finish Date
Project Manager
Communication Management Plan
Phase Gate
33. 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.
Critical Path Method
Performing Organization
Late Finish Date
Risk Breakdown Structure
34. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio Management
Performing Organization
Scope Baseline
Acceptance Criteria
35. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Actual Cost
Project Charter
Corrective Action
Phase Gate
36. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Opportunity
Critical Path
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Early Finish Date
37. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Project Management Office
Corrective Action
Level of Effort
Effort
38. 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.
Summary Activity
Cost Variance
Scope Baseline
Early Finish Date
39. 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.
Late Start Date
Corrective Action
Schedule Model Analysis
Successor Activity
40. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Risk Management Plan
Risk Avoidance
Estimate to Complete
Start-to-Start
41. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Most Likely Duration
Total Float
Pessimistic Duration
Risk Transference
42. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Risk
Gantt Chart
Performing Organization
43. 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.
Earned Value
Forward Pass
Logical Relationship
Decision Tree Analysis
44. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Cost Performance Index
Project Management Plan
Cost Management Plan
45. 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.)
Effort
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Constraint
Discrete Effort
46. 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.
Data Date
Stakeholder
Start-to-Start
Portfolio Management
47. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Project Management Plan
Staffing Management Plan
Lead
Portfolio Management
48. 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
Control Account
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Apportioned Effort
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
49. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Procurement Management Plan
Stakeholder
Scope Baseline
Planned Value
50. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Variance Analysis
Deliverable
Project Life Cycle
Opportunity