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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Requirements Management Plan
Actual Cost
Human Resource Plan
Crashing
2. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Gantt Chart
Decomposition
Risk Avoidance
Actual Cost
3. 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.
WBS Dictionary
Backward Pass
Actual Cost
Schedule Baseline
4. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Logical Relationship
Corrective Action
Finish-to-Start
Milestone
5. 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
Level of Effort
Portfolio Balancing
Lessons Learned
S-Curve Analysis
6. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Actual Cost
Risk Avoidance
Procurement Management Plan
Decision Tree Analysis
7. 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.
Corrective Action
Percent Complete
Path Convergence
Phase Gate
8. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Project Scope Statement
Gantt Chart
Constraint
Late Start Date
9. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Estimate to Complete
Risk Transference
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Project Manager
10. A group of potential causes of risk.
Risk Category
Deliverable
Decomposition
Code of Accounts
11. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Schedule Management Plan
Defect Repair
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Change Control
12. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Parametric Estimating
Apportioned Effort
Schedule Model Analysis
Portfolio
13. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Planned Value
Progressive Elaboration
Requirement
Secondary Risk
14. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Portfolio Balancing
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Schedule Model Analysis
Backward Pass
15. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Cost Variance
Project Management Plan
Lessons Learned
Risk Mitigation
16. 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.
Logical Relationship
Forward Pass
Risk Breakdown Structure
Pessimistic Duration
17. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Path Convergence
Requirement
Risk Mitigation
Project Manager
18. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Level of Effort
Finish-to-Start
Schedule Compression
Resource Calendar
19. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Program
Free Float
Finish-to-Finish
Probability and Impact Matrix
20. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Resource Calendar
Predecessor Activity
Schedule Baseline
Scope Baseline
21. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
WBS Dictionary
Variance at Completion
Early Start Date
Portfolio
22. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Schedule Baseline
Parametric Estimating
Sponsor
Cost Management Plan
23. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
To-Complete Performance Index
Fast Tracking
Project Management Plan
Estimate to Complete
24. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Successor Activity
What-If Sce
Resource Leveling
Requirement
25. 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.
Deliverable
Finish-to-Start
Project Charter
Cost Management Plan
26. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Opportunity
Risk
Percent Complete
Logical Relationship
27. 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.
Human Resource Plan
Change Control Board
Critical Chain Method
Schedule Variance
28. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
What-If Sce
Opportunity
Lead
Corrective Action
29. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio Management
Cost Performance Index
Staffing Management Plan
Deliverable
30. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
S-Curve Analysis
Assumption
Most Likely Duration
Program Management
31. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Phase Gate
Resource Breakdown Structure
Risk Register
Preventive Action
32. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Project Life Cycle
Staffing Management Plan
Crashing
WBS Dictionary
33. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Lag
Risk Avoidance
Project Management Office
Optimistic Duration
34. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Finish-to-Finish
Acceptance Criteria
Sponsor
Risk Breakdown Structure
35. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Risk Transference
Portfolio
Corrective Action
Organizational Breakdown Structure
36. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Project Manager
Project Management
Level of Effort
Bottom-up Estimating
37. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Lessons Learned
Risk Breakdown Structure
Code of Accounts
Schedule Performance Index
38. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Project Manager
Pessimistic Duration
Scope Management Plan
Backward Pass
39. In the critical path method - the earliest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can finish based on the schedule network logic - the data date - and any schedule constraints.
Most Likely Duration
Risk Management Plan
Activity
Early Finish Date
40. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Schedule Compression
Lessons Learned
What-If Sce
41. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Project Scope Statement
Estimate to Complete
Percent Complete
Parametric Estimating
42. 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.
Risk Transference
Project Charter
Program
Threat
43. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Change Request
Project Calendar
Trigger Condition
Critical Chain Method
44. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Corrective Action
Path Divergence
Optimistic Duration
45. 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.
Control Account
Lessons Learned
Data Date
Late Start Date
46. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Project Life Cycle
Risk Acceptance
Planned Value
Risk Register
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.
Parametric Estimating
Forward Pass
Fast Tracking
Corrective Action
48. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
S-Curve Analysis
Finish-to-Finish
Cost Management Plan
Schedule Management Plan
49. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Critical Chain Method
Program Management
Apportioned Effort
Risk Breakdown Structure
50. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Acceptance Criteria
Program Management Office
Schedule Variance
Summary Activity