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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Risk Avoidance
Portfolio Management
Earned Value
Portfolio
2. 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.
Late Start Date
Finish-to-Finish
Early Start Date
Phase Gate
3. A measure of the cost performance that is required to be achieved with the remaining resources in order to meet a specified management goal - expressed as the ratio of the cost to finish the outstanding work to the remaining budget.
To-Complete Performance Index
Procurement Management Plan
Project Scope Statement
Finish-to-Start
4. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Actual Cost
Early Finish Date
Apportioned Effort
Scope Management Plan
5. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Scope Creep
Program
Requirements Management Plan
Staffing Management Plan
6. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio Management
Project Phase
Project Schedule
Risk Acceptance
7. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Assumption
Project
Human Resource Plan
Schedule Variance
8. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Decomposition
Code of Accounts
Change Control System
Successor Activity
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.
Secondary Risk
Late Start Date
Backward Pass
Acceptance Criteria
10. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Resource Leveling
Project Scope
Total Float
Requirements Management Plan
11. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Trigger Condition
Product Life Cycle
Most Likely Duration
Lessons Learned
12. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Project Scope Statement
Critical Chain Method
Project Phase
Risk Avoidance
13. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Earned Value Management
Logical Relationship
Risk Management Plan
Schedule Model Analysis
14. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Schedule Management Plan
Schedule Performance Index
Program
Predecessor Activity
15. 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.
Opportunity
Procurement Management Plan
Project Management Plan
Free Float
16. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Parametric Estimating
Risk Register
Change Control Board
Most Likely Duration
17. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Schedule Baseline
Pessimistic Duration
Early Start Date
Project Management Plan
18. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.
Requirements Management Plan
Schedule Model
Scope Management Plan
Forward Pass
19. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Change Request
Schedule Performance Index
Fast Tracking
Gantt Chart
20. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Critical Path Activity
Human Resource Plan
Acceptance Criteria
21. 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.
Risk Category
Three-Point Estimate
Quality Management Plan
Baseline
22. 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.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Lead
Phase Gate
Requirement
23. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Change Control
Cost Variance
Product Life Cycle
Defect Repair
24. The amount of budget deficit or surplus at a given point in time - expressed as the difference between the earned value and the actual cost.
Schedule Baseline
Fast Tracking
Bottom-up Estimating
Cost Variance
25. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Project Management Plan
WBS Dictionary
Rolling Wave Planning
Risk Transference
26. 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
Scope Baseline
Successor Activity
Stakeholder
27. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Project Management Plan
Decomposition
Portfolio Balancing
Resource Leveling
28. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Risk Register
Earned Value
Variance at Completion
Actual Cost
29. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Portfolio Management
Project Life Cycle
Earned Value
Effort
30. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Free Float
Estimate to Complete
Schedule Management Plan
Project Schedule
31. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Resource Calendar
Change Control Board
Opportunity
Program Management Office
32. 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
Estimate to Complete
Apportioned Effort
Critical Path
Defect Repair
33. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Milestone
Change Control
Variance at Completion
Variance Analysis
34. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Opportunity
Quality Management Plan
Bottom-up Estimating
Discrete Effort
35. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
WBS Dictionary
Percent Complete
Progressive Elaboration
Procurement Management Plan
36. 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.)
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Performing Organization
Level of Effort
Variance at Completion
37. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Program Management
Logical Relationship
Progressive Elaboration
Requirement
38. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Schedule Model
Project
Portfolio Balancing
Data Date
39. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Schedule Management Plan
Data Date
Scope Management Plan
Change Control Board
40. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Acceptance Criteria
Analogous Estimating
Risk Transference
Project Life Cycle
41. 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.
Effort
Opportunity
Resource Leveling
Enterprise Environmental Factors
42. 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.
Free Float
Project Scope Statement
Effort
Schedule Baseline
43. 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.
Actual Cost
Forward Pass
Schedule Compression
Planned Value
44. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Schedule Performance Index
Project Scope
Backward Pass
Percent Complete
45. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Fast Tracking
Early Start Date
Finish-to-Start
46. 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.
Baseline
Stakeholder
Forward Pass
Variance at Completion
47. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Project Manager
Project Charter
Crashing
Risk Management Plan
48. 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.
Backward Pass
Scope Baseline
Change Request
Risk Avoidance
49. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Human Resource Plan
Staffing Management Plan
Precedence Diagramming Method
Crashing
50. 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.)
Product Life Cycle
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Discrete Effort
Resource Calendar