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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A group of potential causes of risk.
Risk Category
Percent Complete
Performing Organization
Pessimistic Duration
2. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Program Management
Requirements Management Plan
Earned Value Management
Risk Transference
3. 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
Project Charter
Program Management
Late Finish Date
Apportioned Effort
4. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Program Management
Parametric Estimating
Milestone
Lessons Learned
5. 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.
Path Convergence
Progressive Elaboration
Late Start Date
Backward Pass
6. 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.
Program
Estimate at Completion
Human Resource Plan
Earned Value Management
7. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Successor Activity
Progressive Elaboration
Project Schedule Network Diagram
8. 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.
Critical Path
Phase Gate
Resource Breakdown Structure
Logical Relationship
9. A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Human Resource Plan
Threat
Risk Transference
Finish-to-Start
10. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Secondary Risk
Change Control
Variance Analysis
Actual Cost
11. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Path Divergence
Probability and Impact Matrix
Secondary Risk
Estimate to Complete
12. 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
Threat
Free Float
To-Complete Performance Index
13. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to a program to meet the program requirements and to obtain benefits and control not available by managing projects individually.
Program Management
Project Management Office
Precedence Diagramming Method
Enterprise Environmental Factors
14. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Project Management Plan
Opportunity
Lessons Learned
Schedule Variance
15. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Risk
Change Request
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Staffing Management Plan
16. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Opportunity
Product Life Cycle
Change Control
Risk Avoidance
17. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Optimistic Duration
Progressive Elaboration
Schedule Model Analysis
Lead
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.
Variance at Completion
Schedule Model Analysis
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Early Start Date
19. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Change Control
Secondary Risk
Schedule Model
Project Scope
20. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished.
Change Control
Defect Repair
Finish-to-Finish
Project Life Cycle
21. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed or extended from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.
Lead
Change Control Board
Total Float
Rolling Wave Planning
22. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Project Management
Bottom-up Estimating
Decomposition
Threat
23. 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
Lessons Learned
Risk Avoidance
Portfolio Management
Forward Pass
24. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Project Management Office
Crashing
Change Control System
Quality Management Plan
25. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Start-to-Start
Control Account
Effort
Variance Analysis
26. 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.
Most Likely Duration
Human Resource Plan
Program Management Office
Corrective Action
27. 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.
Resource Leveling
Cost Variance
Portfolio Management
Stakeholder
28. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Estimate at Completion
Project Phase
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Deliverable
29. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Assumption
Deliverable
Portfolio
30. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Effort
Risk Register
Lessons Learned
Program
31. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Constraint
Trigger Condition
Milestone
Analogous Estimating
32. 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.
Late Finish Date
Critical Path Method
Corrective Action
Project Management
33. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Opportunity
Constraint
Early Start Date
34. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Stakeholder
Threat
Program Management Office
Budget at Completion
35. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Bottom-up Estimating
Path Convergence
Schedule Model Analysis
Risk Avoidance
36. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
What-If Sce
Change Control System
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Data Date
37. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Critical Path
Risk Mitigation
Successor Activity
Assumption
38. 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.
Successor Activity
Code of Accounts
Schedule Model
Project Charter
39. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Earned Value Management
Project Scope
Program
Critical Path Activity
40. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Project Phase
Constraint
Scope Management Plan
WBS Dictionary
41. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Total Float
Start-to-Finish
Change Control
Critical Path
42. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Project Life Cycle
Decomposition
Resource Leveling
Threat
43. 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.
Earned Value Management
Deliverable
Project Management
Decision Tree Analysis
44. 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.)
Communication Management Plan
Risk Avoidance
Project
Discrete Effort
45. A technique used for constructing a schedule model in which activities are represented by nodes and are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are to be performed.
Change Control System
Crashing
Precedence Diagramming Method
Lag
46. 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
Lessons Learned
Performing Organization
Constraint
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.
Project
Requirement
Decomposition
Probability and Impact Matrix
48. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Acceptance Criteria
Late Start Date
Critical Path Activity
Variance at Completion
49. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Lag
To-Complete Performance Index
Path Divergence
Defect Repair
50. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Pessimistic Duration
Project Management Plan
Critical Path Method
Sponsor