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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Project Schedule
Earned Value Management
Finish-to-Finish
Schedule Baseline
2. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Path Convergence
Analogous Estimating
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Cost Variance
3. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Acceptance Criteria
Actual Cost
Risk Mitigation
Requirements Management Plan
4. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Estimate to Complete
Project Scope
Schedule Variance
Critical Chain Method
5. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Optimistic Duration
Program Management
Start-to-Start
Scope Management Plan
6. An activity where effort is allotted proportionately across certain discrete efforts and not divisible into discrete efforts. (Note: Apportioned effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance
Lead
Project Management Office
Apportioned Effort
Gantt Chart
7. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Risk Category
Late Start Date
Crashing
Preventive Action
8. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Stakeholder
Level of Effort
Decomposition
Budget at Completion
9. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Successor Activity
Planned Value
Estimate at Completion
Progressive Elaboration
10. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Start-to-Start
Control Account
Critical Path Method
Lead
11. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Critical Chain Method
Risk Register
Product Life Cycle
Trigger Condition
12. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Forward Pass
Successor Activity
Schedule Model Analysis
Variance Analysis
13. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Analogous Estimating
Lag
What-If Sce
Risk Category
14. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Estimate at Completion
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Activity
15. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Activity
Project Management Office
Parametric Estimating
Decomposition
16. 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
Schedule Management Plan
Optimistic Duration
Trigger Condition
17. 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.
Project Management
Rolling Wave Planning
Project Schedule
Phase Gate
18. 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.
Schedule Model Analysis
Data Date
Early Start Date
Three-Point Estimate
19. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
To-Complete Performance Index
Start-to-Finish
Project Scope Statement
Change Request
20. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Schedule Model Analysis
Organizational Process Assets
Decomposition
Cost Variance
21. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Quality Management Plan
Free Float
Threat
Organizational Project Management Maturity
22. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Progressive Elaboration
Critical Path Activity
S-Curve Analysis
WBS Dictionary
23. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Scope Creep
Effort
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Enterprise Environmental Factors
24. 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.
Requirement
Late Start Date
Schedule Baseline
Crashing
25. 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 Avoidance
Change Control Board
Human Resource Plan
Risk Management Plan
26. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Earned Value Management
Activity
Critical Path Activity
Requirements Traceability Matrix
27. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Corrective Action
Backward Pass
Cost Management Plan
Schedule Management Plan
28. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Project Calendar
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Three-Point Estimate
Critical Chain Method
29. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Summary Activity
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Schedule Management Plan
Decision Tree Analysis
30. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Project Management Plan
Product Life Cycle
Change Control System
Free Float
31. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Requirements Management Plan
Product Life Cycle
Opportunity
Backward Pass
32. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Lag
Apportioned Effort
Finish-to-Start
Critical Path Method
33. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Path Divergence
Change Control System
Control Account
Critical Chain Method
34. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio
Project Schedule
Earned Value
Sponsor
35. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Risk Management Plan
Resource Breakdown Structure
Program Management Office
Project Life Cycle
36. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Schedule Compression
Apportioned Effort
Risk Breakdown Structure
Trigger Condition
37. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
WBS Dictionary
Variance at Completion
Predecessor Activity
Finish-to-Start
38. 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.
Project Manager
Project Management Plan
Stakeholder
Program Management
39. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Risk Acceptance
Requirements Management Plan
Milestone
40. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Schedule Performance Index
Schedule Compression
Requirements Management Plan
Risk Category
41. 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.
Risk Transference
Acceptance Criteria
Backward Pass
Project Schedule
42. 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
Trigger Condition
Phase Gate
Code of Accounts
43. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Project Scope
Critical Path
Scope Management Plan
Change Control
44. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Scope Creep
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Deliverable
Risk Management Plan
45. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Variance Analysis
Most Likely Duration
Schedule Variance
Parametric Estimating
46. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Level of Effort
Project Management Office
Risk Register
Staffing Management Plan
47. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Late Start Date
Planned Value
Project Calendar
Project Life Cycle
48. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio
Portfolio Management
Portfolio Balancing
Corrective Action
49. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Risk Mitigation
Predecessor Activity
Risk Transference
To-Complete Performance Index
50. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Trigger Condition
Variance at Completion
Quality Management Plan
Risk Avoidance