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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 a team will acquire goods and services from outside of the performing organization.
Planned Value
Parametric Estimating
Procurement Management Plan
Early Finish Date
2. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Cost Performance Index
Change Control
Earned Value Management
Project Charter
3. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Fast Tracking
Crashing
Finish-to-Finish
Probability and Impact Matrix
4. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Scope Management Plan
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Human Resource Plan
Planned Value
5. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Budget at Completion
Activity
Preventive Action
Schedule Model Analysis
6. 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
Variance at Completion
Scope Baseline
Schedule Baseline
7. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Level of Effort
Opportunity
Predecessor Activity
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
8. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Most Likely Duration
Project Scope Statement
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Finish-to-Start
9. 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.
Actual Cost
Sponsor
Fast Tracking
Product Life Cycle
10. 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.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Project Life Cycle
Progressive Elaboration
Critical Path Method
11. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Cost Management Plan
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Change Control
Fast Tracking
12. 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 Management Plan
Program Management
Lessons Learned
Total Float
13. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Risk
Corrective Action
Bottom-up Estimating
Milestone
14. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Risk Register
Successor Activity
Three-Point Estimate
Organizational Breakdown Structure
15. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Predecessor Activity
Risk
Risk Transference
Gantt Chart
16. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Variance Analysis
Crashing
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Schedule Model Analysis
17. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Data Date
Parametric Estimating
Precedence Diagramming Method
Resource Leveling
18. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Three-Point Estimate
Milestone
Staffing Management Plan
Start-to-Start
19. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Start-to-Start
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Predecessor Activity
Lessons Learned
20. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Trigger Condition
Decomposition
Scope Creep
Risk Mitigation
21. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Risk Category
Project Management
What-If Sce
Cost Variance
22. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Opportunity
Cost Variance
Pessimistic Duration
Earned Value
23. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Progressive Elaboration
Predecessor Activity
Risk
Scope Management Plan
24. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Program Management Office
Threat
Change Control Board
Most Likely Duration
25. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Start-to-Finish
Free Float
Scope Creep
Risk Management Plan
26. 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.
Summary Activity
Backward Pass
Resource Leveling
Path Convergence
27. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Portfolio Balancing
Program
Pessimistic Duration
Baseline
28. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Optimistic Duration
Program Management Office
Pessimistic Duration
29. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Risk Management Plan
Portfolio
Estimate at Completion
Corrective Action
30. 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.
Bottom-up Estimating
Critical Path Method
Logical Relationship
Organizational Project Management Maturity
31. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Cost Management Plan
Portfolio Balancing
Portfolio
Enterprise Environmental Factors
32. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Scope Creep
Percent Complete
Acceptance Criteria
Risk Category
33. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Schedule Model Analysis
Trigger Condition
Apportioned Effort
Critical Chain Method
34. 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.
Three-Point Estimate
Staffing Management Plan
Forward Pass
Precedence Diagramming Method
35. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Apportioned Effort
Control Account
Path Convergence
Lessons Learned
36. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Analogous Estimating
Planned Value
Risk Acceptance
37. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Cost Management Plan
Corrective Action
Effort
Schedule Performance Index
38. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Pessimistic Duration
S-Curve Analysis
Project Calendar
Finish-to-Finish
39. 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.
Variance at Completion
Program Management
Project Schedule
Deliverable
40. 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.
Late Finish Date
Lead
Defect Repair
Backward Pass
41. 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.)
Code of Accounts
Discrete Effort
Data Date
Project Management Plan
42. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Requirements Management Plan
Total Float
Risk Avoidance
Change Control System
43. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Threat
Decision Tree Analysis
Schedule Performance Index
Progressive Elaboration
44. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Cost Management Plan
Project Schedule
Path Divergence
Variance Analysis
45. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Assumption
Constraint
Staffing Management Plan
Risk
46. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Project Management Office
Portfolio
Total Float
Estimate to Complete
47. 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.
Control Account
Activity
Progressive Elaboration
Schedule Compression
48. 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
S-Curve Analysis
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Gantt Chart
49. 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.
Earned Value
Cost Variance
Project Management Office
Schedule Variance
50. An individual - group - or organization who may affect - be affected by - or perceive itself to be affected by a decision - activity - or outcome of a project - program - or portfolio.
Communication Management Plan
Critical Chain Method
Control Account
Stakeholder