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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Portfolio Management
Secondary Risk
Procurement Management Plan
Change Control Board
2. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Human Resource Plan
Pessimistic Duration
Path Convergence
Performing Organization
3. 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.
Critical Path Method
Finish-to-Finish
Schedule Baseline
Schedule Management Plan
4. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Finish-to-Start
Total Float
Threat
Cost Management Plan
5. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Successor Activity
Requirements Management Plan
Scope Creep
Risk Acceptance
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
Budget at Completion
Critical Path Activity
Progressive Elaboration
7. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Estimate at Completion
Project Management Plan
Late Finish Date
8. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Analogous Estimating
Early Start Date
Portfolio
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
9. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Data Date
Effort
Free Float
Project Charter
10. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Change Request
Budget at Completion
Opportunity
Secondary Risk
11. 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
S-Curve Analysis
Optimistic Duration
Backward Pass
12. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Decision Tree Analysis
Planned Value
Project Charter
Project Calendar
13. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Start-to-Finish
Organizational Process Assets
Finish-to-Finish
Portfolio Management
14. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
What-If Sce
Threat
Logical Relationship
Project Phase
15. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Bottom-up Estimating
Corrective Action
Precedence Diagramming Method
Trigger Condition
16. 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.
Schedule Baseline
Project Scope
Procurement Management Plan
Change Control Board
17. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Decision Tree Analysis
Risk
Constraint
Project Calendar
18. 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.
Resource Calendar
Variance at Completion
Planned Value
Early Start Date
19. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Project Scope Statement
Resource Calendar
Change Control
Risk
20. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Project Management Office
Analogous Estimating
Phase Gate
Logical Relationship
21. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Program Management Office
Sponsor
Estimate at Completion
Rolling Wave Planning
22. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Scope Creep
Actual Cost
Early Start Date
Threat
23. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Sponsor
Performing Organization
Schedule Model
Risk Mitigation
24. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Risk Category
Sponsor
Earned Value
Effort
25. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Parametric Estimating
Control Account
Trigger Condition
Schedule Model Analysis
26. The approved version of a scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) - and its associated WBS dictionary - which can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison.
Activity
Human Resource Plan
Predecessor Activity
Scope Baseline
27. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Successor Activity
Project Schedule
Resource Calendar
Assumption
28. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Code of Accounts
Planned Value
Scope Baseline
Schedule Management Plan
29. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Decomposition
Path Convergence
Project Management
Estimate at Completion
30. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Fast Tracking
Finish-to-Start
Risk Acceptance
Estimate to Complete
31. 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
Probability and Impact Matrix
Risk Breakdown Structure
Opportunity
32. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Forward Pass
Variance Analysis
Scope Creep
Pessimistic Duration
33. 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.
Stakeholder
Lead
Effort
Portfolio Balancing
34. 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.)
Schedule Compression
Opportunity
Level of Effort
Data Date
35. 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.
Change Request
Human Resource Plan
Crashing
Level of Effort
36. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Schedule Compression
Schedule Management Plan
Predecessor Activity
Change Control Board
37. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Change Control Board
Schedule Compression
Lag
Code of Accounts
38. A representation of the plan for executing the project's activities including durations - dependencies and other planning information - used to produce a project schedule along with other scheduling artifacts.
Deliverable
Project Life Cycle
Earned Value Management
Schedule Model
39. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
S-Curve Analysis
Three-Point Estimate
Schedule Management Plan
Change Control
40. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Crashing
Lead
Cost Management Plan
Parametric Estimating
41. 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
Pessimistic Duration
Crashing
Start-to-Start
42. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Schedule Performance Index
Portfolio Balancing
Probability and Impact Matrix
WBS Dictionary
43. 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.
Progressive Elaboration
Earned Value Management
Cost Variance
Critical Path Method
44. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Schedule Model
Logical Relationship
Corrective Action
Budget at Completion
45. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Schedule Model Analysis
Percent Complete
Lag
Risk Transference
46. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Preventive Action
Requirement
Project Scope Statement
Schedule Compression
47. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Lead
Resource Calendar
Activity
Optimistic Duration
48. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Gantt Chart
Project Schedule
Schedule Management Plan
Estimate at Completion
49. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Risk Avoidance
Procurement Management Plan
Quality Management Plan
Schedule Compression
50. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Early Finish Date
Risk Transference
Project Calendar
Project Charter