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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Resource Breakdown Structure
Resource Calendar
Project Scope Statement
2. 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.
Path Divergence
Critical Path Method
Critical Path Activity
Fast Tracking
3. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Change Control Board
Lag
Optimistic Duration
Crashing
4. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Schedule Baseline
Gantt Chart
Backward Pass
Cost Management Plan
5. 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.
Program
Risk Transference
Early Finish Date
Critical Path Method
6. 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.
Activity
Percent Complete
Change Request
Deliverable
7. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Project Management Plan
Rolling Wave Planning
Project Manager
Three-Point Estimate
8. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Three-Point Estimate
Activity
Pessimistic Duration
WBS Dictionary
9. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Scope Management Plan
Free Float
Quality Management Plan
Risk Acceptance
10. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Lessons Learned
Risk Acceptance
Risk Transference
Risk Breakdown Structure
11. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Forward Pass
Risk Mitigation
S-Curve Analysis
Data Date
12. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Cost Management Plan
Organizational Process Assets
Scope Creep
Analogous Estimating
13. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Risk Mitigation
Project Manager
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Data Date
14. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Successor Activity
Rolling Wave Planning
Change Control System
15. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Free Float
Risk
Assumption
Decomposition
16. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Opportunity
Project Phase
Portfolio
To-Complete Performance Index
17. 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.
Estimate to Complete
Project Charter
Project Management
Progressive Elaboration
18. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Risk Avoidance
Critical Path Activity
Threat
Product Life Cycle
19. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Crashing
Predecessor Activity
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Organizational Process Assets
20. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Risk Management Plan
Percent Complete
Program Management Office
Lead
21. 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.
Finish-to-Finish
Change Control
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Program
22. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Cost Performance Index
Earned Value
Change Control Board
Variance at Completion
23. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Stakeholder
Project Life Cycle
Resource Breakdown Structure
Cost Variance
24. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Finish-to-Finish
Assumption
Project Scope
Enterprise Environmental Factors
25. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
S-Curve Analysis
Communication Management Plan
Requirement
Project Management Office
26. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Secondary Risk
Defect Repair
Threat
Risk Mitigation
27. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Early Start Date
Risk Management Plan
Effort
Organizational Project Management Maturity
28. 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.
Forward Pass
Project
Budget at Completion
Schedule Management Plan
29. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Portfolio
Path Convergence
Staffing Management Plan
Project Scope
30. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Late Start Date
Quality Management Plan
Predecessor Activity
Program
31. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Secondary Risk
Project Management
Performing Organization
Risk
32. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Late Start Date
Estimate at Completion
Late Finish Date
Constraint
33. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Risk Management Plan
Scope Management Plan
Cost Performance Index
Resource Calendar
34. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Precedence Diagramming Method
What-If Sce
Cost Variance
Change Control Board
35. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Opportunity
Successor Activity
Critical Path
Organizational Breakdown Structure
36. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Schedule Compression
Performing Organization
Finish-to-Start
Risk
37. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Successor Activity
Percent Complete
Logical Relationship
Sponsor
38. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Actual Cost
Cost Performance Index
Decomposition
Critical Path
39. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Gantt Chart
To-Complete Performance Index
Critical Path Activity
Portfolio Balancing
40. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Acceptance Criteria
Estimate to Complete
Schedule Compression
Path Divergence
41. 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
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Lessons Learned
Program Management
Cost Variance
42. 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.
Cost Performance Index
Planned Value
Schedule Model
Threat
43. 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.
Sponsor
Trigger Condition
Procurement Management Plan
Phase Gate
44. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio Management
Risk Avoidance
Level of Effort
Lead
45. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio
Probability and Impact Matrix
Human Resource Plan
Change Control System
46. 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.)
Level of Effort
Project Phase
Lag
Probability and Impact Matrix
47. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Variance Analysis
Backward Pass
Schedule Compression
Budget at Completion
48. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Risk Mitigation
Finish-to-Start
Percent Complete
Cost Performance Index
49. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Backward Pass
Requirements Traceability Matrix
S-Curve Analysis
Parametric Estimating
50. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Project Phase
Decision Tree Analysis
Sponsor
Lead