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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Apportioned Effort
Defect Repair
Trigger Condition
Organizational Process Assets
2. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
To-Complete Performance Index
Project Life Cycle
Code of Accounts
Schedule Model
3. 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.
Critical Path Method
Cost Performance Index
Decomposition
Cost Variance
4. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Change Control System
Resource Leveling
Apportioned Effort
Activity
5. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Risk Avoidance
Scope Baseline
Schedule Compression
Early Finish Date
6. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Project Calendar
Risk Avoidance
Staffing Management Plan
Product Life Cycle
7. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Percent Complete
Pessimistic Duration
Project Manager
Staffing Management Plan
8. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio Management
Critical Path Activity
Gantt Chart
Scope Management Plan
9. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Variance Analysis
Data Date
Summary Activity
Code of Accounts
10. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Project Management
Variance Analysis
Summary Activity
Acceptance Criteria
11. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Variance at Completion
Defect Repair
Bottom-up Estimating
Requirements Management Plan
12. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Critical Path Activity
Variance Analysis
Decision Tree Analysis
Project Schedule Network Diagram
13. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Most Likely Duration
Discrete Effort
Cost Performance Index
Change Control System
14. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Project Scope Statement
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
WBS Dictionary
Sponsor
15. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Risk Management Plan
Risk
Probability and Impact Matrix
Budget at Completion
16. 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.
WBS Dictionary
Risk Category
Risk Avoidance
Rolling Wave Planning
17. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Percent Complete
Logical Relationship
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Defect Repair
18. 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.
Change Control
Program Management
Crashing
Requirement
19. The approved version of a scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) - and its associated WBS dictionary - which can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison.
Scope Baseline
Acceptance Criteria
Schedule Compression
What-If Sce
20. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Assumption
Control Account
Project
Portfolio
21. 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.
Late Start Date
Predecessor Activity
Program
Project Schedule
22. 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.)
Discrete Effort
Three-Point Estimate
Preventive Action
Critical Path
23. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Risk Acceptance
Discrete Effort
Path Divergence
Scope Management Plan
24. 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
Earned Value Management
Risk Management Plan
Rolling Wave Planning
25. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
To-Complete Performance Index
Project Scope Statement
Project
Analogous Estimating
26. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Change Request
Critical Path
Logical Relationship
Risk
27. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Critical Path Activity
Early Finish Date
Communication Management Plan
Forward Pass
28. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Trigger Condition
Path Convergence
Staffing Management Plan
Portfolio Balancing
29. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Backward Pass
Start-to-Start
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
30. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Code of Accounts
Scope Management Plan
Risk Management Plan
Budget at Completion
31. 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.
Path Convergence
Scope Creep
Baseline
Summary Activity
32. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Resource Leveling
Actual Cost
Project Phase
Change Control
33. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Code of Accounts
Risk Acceptance
Quality Management Plan
Organizational Breakdown Structure
34. 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
Critical Path Activity
Resource Calendar
Predecessor Activity
35. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Performing Organization
Communication Management Plan
Lag
Precedence Diagramming Method
36. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Effort
Quality Management Plan
Critical Path Method
Risk Breakdown Structure
37. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Apportioned Effort
Analogous Estimating
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Path Convergence
38. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Estimate at Completion
Schedule Variance
Requirements Management Plan
Sponsor
39. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Schedule Performance Index
Project Calendar
Risk
Requirements Traceability Matrix
40. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
What-If Sce
Variance at Completion
Change Control
Program
41. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Path Convergence
Precedence Diagramming Method
Schedule Model Analysis
Backward Pass
42. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Path Convergence
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Critical Chain Method
Schedule Baseline
43. 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.
Free Float
Scope Baseline
Product Life Cycle
Stakeholder
44. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Constraint
Logical Relationship
Requirement
Data Date
45. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Staffing Management Plan
Schedule Performance Index
Risk Breakdown Structure
Milestone
46. 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.
Gantt Chart
Phase Gate
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Constraint
47. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Opportunity
Project Charter
Project Manager
To-Complete Performance Index
48. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Late Start Date
Project Management Plan
Decision Tree Analysis
49. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Schedule Model
Change Control System
Change Control
Program Management Office
50. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Stakeholder
Actual Cost
Three-Point Estimate
S-Curve Analysis