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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.
Performing Organization
Precedence Diagramming Method
Finish-to-Finish
Apportioned Effort
2. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Risk Management Plan
S-Curve Analysis
Acceptance Criteria
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
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.
Cost Performance Index
Schedule Baseline
Gantt Chart
Total Float
4. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Human Resource Plan
Opportunity
Scope Baseline
Project Scope Statement
5. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Optimistic Duration
Risk Mitigation
Pessimistic Duration
Parametric Estimating
6. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Resource Calendar
Defect Repair
Requirements Management Plan
Start-to-Start
7. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Project Phase
Data Date
Total Float
Crashing
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.
Lead
Planned Value
Percent Complete
Sponsor
9. A group of potential causes of risk.
Schedule Management Plan
Risk Category
Resource Breakdown Structure
Percent Complete
10. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Late Start Date
Actual Cost
Opportunity
Resource Breakdown Structure
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.
Lessons Learned
Finish-to-Finish
Staffing Management Plan
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
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.
Corrective Action
Total Float
Forward Pass
Percent Complete
13. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
To-Complete Performance Index
Defect Repair
Start-to-Finish
Data Date
14. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Acceptance Criteria
Change Request
Schedule Model
Earned Value
15. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Change Control System
Estimate to Complete
Fast Tracking
S-Curve Analysis
16. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Schedule Model Analysis
Risk Breakdown Structure
Critical Path
Finish-to-Start
17. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Activity
Crashing
Late Start Date
WBS Dictionary
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.
Cost Performance Index
Bottom-up Estimating
Logical Relationship
Program
19. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Decision Tree Analysis
Critical Path Activity
Threat
Project Life Cycle
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.
Activity
Late Finish Date
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Predecessor Activity
21. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Quality Management Plan
Schedule Compression
Project Scope
Assumption
22. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Early Start Date
Risk Register
Code of Accounts
Schedule Management Plan
23. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Project Life Cycle
Change Request
Budget at Completion
Cost Management Plan
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.
Stakeholder
Phase Gate
Apportioned Effort
Resource Leveling
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.
Late Finish Date
Effort
Early Start Date
Human Resource Plan
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
Predecessor Activity
Deliverable
Project Charter
Apportioned Effort
27. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Project Management Plan
Change Control Board
Schedule Variance
Organizational Process Assets
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.)
Analogous Estimating
Requirement
Optimistic Duration
Level of Effort
29. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Project Calendar
Project
Risk Management Plan
Risk
30. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Crashing
Schedule Model
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Early Finish Date
31. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Predecessor Activity
Critical Path Method
Decomposition
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.
Cost Variance
Quality Management Plan
Product Life Cycle
Deliverable
33. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Acceptance Criteria
Cost Variance
Activity
Code of Accounts
34. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Cost Performance Index
Resource Calendar
Variance Analysis
Late Start Date
35. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Program
Most Likely Duration
Cost Variance
Probability and Impact Matrix
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.)
Requirement
Discrete Effort
Earned Value Management
Milestone
37. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Finish-to-Start
Scope Management Plan
Estimate at Completion
Progressive Elaboration
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.
Late Finish Date
Precedence Diagramming Method
Project Schedule
Start-to-Start
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.
Performing Organization
Procurement Management Plan
Risk Category
Requirement
40. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Preventive Action
Opportunity
Planned Value
41. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Late Finish Date
What-If Sce
Finish-to-Start
42. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Program Management Office
Resource Leveling
Project Life Cycle
Defect Repair
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.
Gantt Chart
Change Request
Phase Gate
Requirements Traceability Matrix
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.
Early Finish Date
Schedule Compression
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Cost Variance
45. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Schedule Compression
Most Likely Duration
Staffing Management Plan
Effort
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.
Baseline
Risk Avoidance
Trigger Condition
Change Control
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.
Early Finish Date
Cost Management Plan
Project Schedule
Fast Tracking
48. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Risk Category
Crashing
Schedule Variance
Constraint
49. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Sponsor
Path Divergence
Trigger Condition
Milestone
50. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Project Calendar
Cost Variance
Procurement Management Plan
Scope Creep