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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Schedule Performance Index
Sponsor
Most Likely Duration
Lead
2. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Budget at Completion
Program Management Office
Start-to-Start
Free Float
3. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Parametric Estimating
Variance at Completion
Cost Variance
Critical Path
4. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Project Scope Statement
Start-to-Finish
Project Scope
Scope Creep
5. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Pessimistic Duration
Requirement
Most Likely Duration
Project Schedule Network Diagram
6. 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.
Predecessor Activity
Trigger Condition
Project Scope
Phase Gate
7. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Predecessor Activity
Estimate to Complete
Code of Accounts
Secondary Risk
8. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Critical Path
Change Control Board
Code of Accounts
Constraint
9. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Product Life Cycle
Schedule Management Plan
Milestone
Progressive Elaboration
10. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Baseline
Estimate at Completion
Program Management Office
Late Finish Date
11. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Risk Acceptance
Requirements Management Plan
Project
Deliverable
12. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Planned Value
Risk Breakdown Structure
Percent Complete
Requirements Traceability Matrix
13. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Project Management Office
Schedule Management Plan
Preventive Action
S-Curve Analysis
14. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Project Charter
Progressive Elaboration
Cost Variance
Risk Breakdown Structure
15. 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.
Project Scope Statement
Requirement
Total Float
Parametric Estimating
16. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Secondary Risk
Critical Path Method
Early Finish Date
17. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Early Finish Date
Percent Complete
Project
Threat
18. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Resource Calendar
Communication Management Plan
Probability and Impact Matrix
Project Management
19. 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.
Risk Management Plan
Change Control Board
Backward Pass
Human Resource Plan
20. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Late Finish Date
Variance at Completion
Resource Calendar
Schedule Compression
21. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Risk Transference
Precedence Diagramming Method
Scope Baseline
Project Management
22. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Summary Activity
Late Start Date
Change Control
Successor Activity
23. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Change Control
Risk Mitigation
Project
Start-to-Start
24. 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
Baseline
Decomposition
Crashing
25. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Estimate at Completion
Path Divergence
Budget at Completion
Program
26. 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.
Schedule Baseline
Human Resource Plan
To-Complete Performance Index
Program
27. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Trigger Condition
Path Divergence
Schedule Performance Index
Change Control Board
28. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Organizational Process Assets
Path Convergence
Probability and Impact Matrix
To-Complete Performance Index
29. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Program Management Office
Risk Avoidance
Probability and Impact Matrix
Project Management
30. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Schedule Variance
Project Calendar
Portfolio Management
Actual Cost
31. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Finish-to-Start
WBS Dictionary
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Analogous Estimating
32. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Procurement Management Plan
Secondary Risk
Earned Value
Project Calendar
33. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Acceptance Criteria
Risk Mitigation
Quality Management Plan
Variance at Completion
34. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Project Management
Risk Register
Decision Tree Analysis
Gantt Chart
35. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Critical Chain Method
Schedule Model Analysis
Cost Variance
Corrective Action
36. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Variance Analysis
Risk Management Plan
Defect Repair
Portfolio
37. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Portfolio Balancing
Performing Organization
Cost Management Plan
Project Calendar
38. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Decision Tree Analysis
Portfolio
Change Request
Estimate to Complete
39. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Progressive Elaboration
Lessons Learned
Cost Management Plan
Scope Creep
40. 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.
Effort
Phase Gate
Acceptance Criteria
Requirement
41. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Activity
Assumption
Decision Tree Analysis
Logical Relationship
42. 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.
Assumption
Threat
Planned Value
Baseline
43. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Earned Value Management
Analogous Estimating
Resource Leveling
Critical Path Method
44. 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.
Project Manager
Earned Value Management
Backward Pass
Most Likely Duration
45. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Project Scope Statement
Scope Management Plan
Project
Risk Mitigation
46. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Late Start Date
Portfolio
Parametric Estimating
47. 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.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Earned Value Management
Procurement Management Plan
Resource Leveling
48. 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.
Baseline
Early Finish Date
Late Start Date
Earned Value
49. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Performing Organization
Staffing Management Plan
Rolling Wave Planning
Enterprise Environmental Factors
50. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Schedule Baseline
Three-Point Estimate
Risk Acceptance
Code of Accounts