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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Critical Path Activity
Most Likely Duration
Product Life Cycle
Start-to-Finish
2. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Project Scope Statement
Constraint
Late Finish Date
Decomposition
3. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Level of Effort
Variance at Completion
Late Finish Date
Critical Path
4. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Quality Management Plan
Fast Tracking
Change Request
5. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Optimistic Duration
Product Life Cycle
Secondary Risk
Procurement Management Plan
6. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Project Calendar
Trigger Condition
Decision Tree Analysis
Project Management Office
7. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Optimistic Duration
Risk Management Plan
Schedule Management Plan
Control Account
8. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Progressive Elaboration
Performing Organization
Total Float
9. 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.
Project Scope Statement
Free Float
Late Start Date
Schedule Management Plan
10. 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.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Control Account
Forward Pass
Project Calendar
11. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Critical Path
Risk Avoidance
Requirements Management Plan
Constraint
12. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Finish-to-Start
Earned Value Management
Critical Path
Deliverable
13. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Scope Management Plan
Percent Complete
What-If Sce
Program
14. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Finish-to-Start
Quality Management Plan
Change Control Board
15. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Opportunity
Progressive Elaboration
Cost Variance
Late Finish Date
16. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Cost Performance Index
Finish-to-Finish
Logical Relationship
Actual Cost
17. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Pessimistic Duration
Project Management Office
Early Start Date
Most Likely Duration
18. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Organizational Process Assets
Change Control Board
Acceptance Criteria
Cost Management Plan
19. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Summary Activity
Actual Cost
Schedule Model Analysis
Control Account
20. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any successor or violating a schedule constraint.
Planned Value
Percent Complete
Free Float
Acceptance Criteria
21. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Estimate to Complete
Risk Transference
Critical Path Activity
Change Request
22. 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.
Cost Management Plan
Percent Complete
Cost Variance
Resource Leveling
23. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Start-to-Start
Forward Pass
Change Control
Estimate to Complete
24. 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.
Three-Point Estimate
Late Finish Date
Early Finish Date
Lag
25. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Program Management Office
Path Divergence
Start-to-Start
Path Convergence
26. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Quality Management Plan
Path Convergence
Project Manager
Schedule Management Plan
27. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Sponsor
Schedule Management Plan
Scope Management Plan
Schedule Baseline
28. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Cost Management Plan
Risk Breakdown Structure
Finish-to-Start
Most Likely Duration
29. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Program
Discrete Effort
Project
Crashing
30. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Resource Calendar
Effort
Finish-to-Finish
Change Control
31. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Variance at Completion
Estimate to Complete
Acceptance Criteria
What-If Sce
32. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Data Date
Variance Analysis
Late Start Date
Free Float
33. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Critical Chain Method
Project Management
Scope Management Plan
Critical Path
34. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Three-Point Estimate
Risk
Finish-to-Finish
Most Likely Duration
35. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Backward Pass
Schedule Management Plan
Earned Value
Code of Accounts
36. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Decomposition
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Gantt Chart
Milestone
37. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Portfolio
Change Control Board
Project Management
Predecessor Activity
38. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Opportunity
Start-to-Start
Stakeholder
Risk Acceptance
39. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Defect Repair
Effort
Percent Complete
Milestone
40. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Risk Acceptance
Risk Category
Resource Calendar
S-Curve Analysis
41. 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.)
Estimate to Complete
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Level of Effort
Optimistic Duration
42. 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.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Percent Complete
Requirement
Actual Cost
43. A group of potential causes of risk.
Risk Management Plan
Precedence Diagramming Method
Risk Category
Performing Organization
44. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Schedule Model Analysis
Critical Path Method
Communication Management Plan
WBS Dictionary
45. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Summary Activity
Secondary Risk
Control Account
Performing Organization
46. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Late Finish Date
Opportunity
Risk Acceptance
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
47. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Change Control
Path Convergence
Path Divergence
Optimistic Duration
48. 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
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Optimistic Duration
Risk
Apportioned Effort
49. 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
Threat
Organizational Process Assets
Gantt Chart
50. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Code of Accounts
Scope Baseline
Product Life Cycle
Critical Path Method