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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Change Request
Deliverable
Resource Leveling
Project Scope
2. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Program Management Office
Path Convergence
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Risk Avoidance
3. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Lead
Human Resource Plan
Change Control Board
Scope Creep
4. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Code of Accounts
Staffing Management Plan
Apportioned Effort
Project Life Cycle
5. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Earned Value Management
Project Calendar
Deliverable
Project Manager
6. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Actual Cost
Sponsor
Start-to-Finish
7. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Progressive Elaboration
Schedule Model
Product Life Cycle
Backward Pass
8. The approved version of a schedule model that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.
Preventive Action
Schedule Baseline
Risk Transference
Risk
9. 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
Change Control Board
Early Start Date
Opportunity
10. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Program
Risk Breakdown Structure
Finish-to-Start
Threat
11. In the critical path method - the latest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start based on the schedule network logic - the project completion date - and any schedule constraints.
Late Start Date
Path Divergence
Acceptance Criteria
Earned Value
12. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Program Management
Risk Category
Project Schedule
Corrective Action
13. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Human Resource Plan
Quality Management Plan
Discrete Effort
Organizational Breakdown Structure
14. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Schedule Model
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Risk Acceptance
15. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Pessimistic Duration
Scope Management Plan
Scope Creep
Backward Pass
16. 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
Risk Avoidance
Change Control Board
Secondary Risk
17. 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.
Lag
Phase Gate
Organizational Process Assets
Human Resource Plan
18. 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.)
Project Charter
Risk Category
Requirement
Discrete Effort
19. 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.
Change Control System
Milestone
Project Management
Program
20. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Corrective Action
Program Management Office
Activity
Risk Transference
21. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Project Charter
Discrete Effort
Lag
Logical Relationship
22. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Communication Management Plan
Start-to-Finish
Trigger Condition
Requirement
23. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Pessimistic Duration
Predecessor Activity
Risk Acceptance
Activity
24. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Project Calendar
Variance Analysis
Project Schedule
Bottom-up Estimating
25. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Control Account
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Communication Management Plan
Schedule Variance
26. A bar chart of schedule information where activities are listed on the vertical axis - dates are shown on the horizontal axis - and activity durations are shown as horizontal bars placed according to start and finish dates.
Variance Analysis
Change Control Board
Gantt Chart
Assumption
27. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Project Manager
Estimate to Complete
Portfolio
Change Request
28. 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
Earned Value Management
Schedule Model
Project Management
29. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Project Calendar
Discrete Effort
Risk Avoidance
Program
30. 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.
Actual Cost
Project Phase
Lead
Baseline
31. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Threat
Start-to-Finish
Analogous Estimating
Finish-to-Finish
32. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Critical Path
Human Resource Plan
Portfolio Balancing
Risk Category
33. 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.
Three-Point Estimate
Milestone
Resource Leveling
Lag
34. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Path Divergence
Decomposition
Estimate to Complete
Assumption
35. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Change Control
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Project Management Office
Budget at Completion
36. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Human Resource Plan
Crashing
Portfolio
Opportunity
37. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Planned Value
Secondary Risk
Backward Pass
Crashing
38. 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
Communication Management Plan
Portfolio Balancing
Finish-to-Finish
39. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Staffing Management Plan
Activity
Decision Tree Analysis
Organizational Process Assets
40. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Gantt Chart
Summary Activity
Successor Activity
Early Finish Date
41. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Communication Management Plan
Requirements Management Plan
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Organizational Breakdown Structure
42. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Organizational Process Assets
Risk Management Plan
Resource Breakdown Structure
Enterprise Environmental Factors
43. 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.
Schedule Model
Cost Management Plan
Project Calendar
Risk Management Plan
44. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Successor Activity
Path Divergence
Project Life Cycle
Risk Category
45. An iterative planning technique in which the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail - while the work in the future is planned at a higher level.
Rolling Wave Planning
Decision Tree Analysis
Decomposition
Human Resource Plan
46. 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.
Control Account
Total Float
Early Finish Date
Scope Management Plan
47. 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.
Discrete Effort
Project Life Cycle
Requirement
Finish-to-Finish
48. 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.
Summary Activity
Procurement Management Plan
Late Finish Date
Critical Chain Method
49. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Risk Mitigation
Bottom-up Estimating
Percent Complete
Lag
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.
What-If Sce
Stakeholder
Total Float
Estimate to Complete