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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Secondary Risk
Planned Value
Budget at Completion
Probability and Impact Matrix
2. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Constraint
Budget at Completion
Predecessor Activity
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
3. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Scope Baseline
Critical Path Method
Change Control System
Human Resource Plan
4. 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.
Communication Management Plan
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Progressive Elaboration
Scope Management Plan
5. 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.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Project Charter
Schedule Baseline
Human Resource Plan
6. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Path Divergence
Risk Acceptance
Change Control Board
7. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Portfolio
Schedule Model
Finish-to-Finish
Actual Cost
8. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Schedule Model
Threat
Project Scope
Portfolio Management
9. 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.
Schedule Baseline
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Level of Effort
Backward Pass
10. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Apportioned Effort
Path Divergence
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Estimate at Completion
11. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Project Management Office
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Estimate at Completion
Communication Management Plan
12. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Discrete Effort
Gantt Chart
To-Complete Performance Index
Effort
13. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Project Scope
Corrective Action
Change Request
Risk Acceptance
14. 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.
Preventive Action
Early Start Date
Estimate to Complete
Scope Baseline
15. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Late Start Date
Portfolio Balancing
Schedule Management Plan
Scope Management Plan
16. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Program Management Office
Procurement Management Plan
Resource Leveling
Cost Performance Index
17. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
To-Complete Performance Index
Schedule Management Plan
Project Management Office
Risk
18. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Successor Activity
Earned Value
Effort
Gantt Chart
19. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Requirements Management Plan
Phase Gate
Three-Point Estimate
Path Convergence
20. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Critical Chain Method
Decision Tree Analysis
Risk Avoidance
Planned Value
21. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Schedule Management Plan
Risk Acceptance
Portfolio Management
Communication Management Plan
22. 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
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Critical Path Activity
Staffing Management Plan
23. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Late Finish Date
Critical Path
Project Phase
Scope Creep
24. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Critical Path Activity
Project Scope
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Lag
25. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Effort
Actual Cost
Critical Chain Method
Risk Register
26. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Trigger Condition
Change Control
Project Management Plan
Successor Activity
27. 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.
Risk Register
Resource Calendar
Portfolio Balancing
Baseline
28. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Schedule Baseline
Project Management Plan
Change Control System
Organizational Project Management Maturity
29. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Change Control System
Schedule Variance
Phase Gate
Organizational Breakdown Structure
30. 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.
Fast Tracking
Assumption
Apportioned Effort
Project Calendar
31. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Successor Activity
Risk Acceptance
Resource Leveling
Most Likely Duration
32. 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.
Assumption
Late Finish Date
Scope Baseline
Procurement Management Plan
33. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Start-to-Start
Acceptance Criteria
Project Management Office
34. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Phase Gate
Risk Avoidance
Summary Activity
Earned Value
35. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Change Control System
Project Schedule
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Earned Value
36. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Program Management
Project
Project Life Cycle
Project Manager
37. 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.
Finish-to-Finish
Planned Value
Staffing Management Plan
Critical Path Method
38. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Cost Performance Index
Schedule Performance Index
Deliverable
Critical Chain Method
39. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Schedule Performance Index
WBS Dictionary
Code of Accounts
Risk Transference
40. 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.
Risk Avoidance
Baseline
Lessons Learned
To-Complete Performance Index
41. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Fast Tracking
Optimistic Duration
Schedule Compression
Risk Category
42. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Schedule Variance
Resource Breakdown Structure
Portfolio
Finish-to-Finish
43. 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.
Resource Leveling
Organizational Process Assets
Gantt Chart
Schedule Model
44. 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
Fast Tracking
Milestone
Actual Cost
45. 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.)
Threat
Discrete Effort
Critical Path
Level of Effort
46. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Project Management
Most Likely Duration
Risk Register
Actual Cost
47. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Project Charter
Cost Variance
Schedule Model Analysis
Early Finish Date
48. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Constraint
Risk Mitigation
Risk Breakdown Structure
Deliverable
49. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Critical Chain Method
Early Start Date
Project Management
50. 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.)
Cost Performance Index
Discrete Effort
Cost Management Plan
Free Float