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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Change Control System
Percent Complete
Scope Baseline
Risk
2. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Free Float
Resource Calendar
Constraint
Procurement Management Plan
3. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Product Life Cycle
Critical Chain Method
Quality Management Plan
Change Request
4. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Total Float
Lessons Learned
Schedule Compression
Project Management Plan
5. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Change Control System
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Portfolio Management
Scope Creep
6. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Change Control System
Project Management Office
Precedence Diagramming Method
Schedule Baseline
7. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Portfolio Balancing
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Earned Value Management
Path Divergence
8. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Code of Accounts
Project
Preventive Action
Project Scope Statement
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.
Risk
Variance Analysis
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Gantt Chart
10. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Change Request
Project Scope
Forward Pass
Lead
11. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Cost Variance
Risk Mitigation
Variance Analysis
Performing Organization
12. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Estimate at Completion
Crashing
Planned Value
Code of Accounts
13. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Bottom-up Estimating
Data Date
Level of Effort
Rolling Wave Planning
14. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Scope Creep
Schedule Model Analysis
Organizational Process Assets
Budget at Completion
15. 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.
Pessimistic Duration
Project Management
Baseline
Three-Point Estimate
16. 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.
Deliverable
Late Finish Date
Portfolio Balancing
Risk Category
17. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Project Charter
Earned Value
Risk
Start-to-Finish
18. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Logical Relationship
Predecessor Activity
Threat
Project Schedule
19. 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.
Phase Gate
Assumption
Change Control Board
Variance at Completion
20. 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.
Project Charter
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Lead
Data Date
21. 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.
Performing Organization
Variance Analysis
Procurement Management Plan
To-Complete Performance Index
22. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Finish-to-Finish
Schedule Model
Risk Transference
23. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Project
Portfolio Balancing
Change Control Board
To-Complete Performance Index
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.
Risk Transference
Project Manager
Schedule Model
Procurement Management Plan
25. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Change Control
Risk Avoidance
Critical Chain Method
Requirement
26. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Project Management Plan
To-Complete Performance Index
Risk Breakdown Structure
Scope Creep
27. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Rolling Wave Planning
Precedence Diagramming Method
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Project Scope Statement
28. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
To-Complete Performance Index
Planned Value
Total Float
Finish-to-Finish
29. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Activity
Requirement
Quality Management Plan
Variance at Completion
30. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Resource Calendar
Decision Tree Analysis
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Crashing
31. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Baseline
Actual Cost
Path Divergence
Risk Transference
32. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Path Convergence
Cost Performance Index
Optimistic Duration
33. 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.
Budget at Completion
Level of Effort
Fast Tracking
Portfolio
34. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Path Divergence
Project Schedule
Project Phase
Fast Tracking
35. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Critical Path Method
Critical Path Activity
Pessimistic Duration
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.)
Level of Effort
Early Start Date
Risk Management Plan
Requirements Management Plan
37. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Scope Creep
Change Control
Actual Cost
Procurement Management Plan
38. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Trigger Condition
What-If Sce
Risk Avoidance
Defect Repair
39. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Human Resource Plan
Early Start Date
Corrective Action
Precedence Diagramming Method
40. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Staffing Management Plan
Scope Management Plan
Project Scope
Communication Management Plan
41. In the critical path method - the earliest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start based on the schedule network logic - the data date - and any schedule constraints.
Estimate at Completion
Schedule Model
Early Start Date
Actual Cost
42. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Acceptance Criteria
Constraint
Backward Pass
Summary Activity
43. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Start-to-Finish
Gantt Chart
Quality Management Plan
Risk Register
44. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
To-Complete Performance Index
S-Curve Analysis
Effort
Change Request
45. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Phase Gate
Program Management Office
Project
Logical Relationship
46. 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.
Risk
Total Float
Critical Path
Organizational Process Assets
47. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Project Manager
Project Management Office
Optimistic Duration
Change Control Board
48. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Risk Avoidance
Scope Management Plan
Preventive Action
Change Request
49. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Schedule Model
Change Request
Critical Path
Program Management
50. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Schedule Model Analysis
Critical Chain Method
Path Divergence
Path Convergence