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PMI Project Management Vocab

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1. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.






2. 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.






3. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.






7. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.






8. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.






9. The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information and more accurate estimates become available.






10. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.






11. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.






12. 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






13. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.






14. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.






15. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.






16. In the critical path method - the earliest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can finish based on the schedule network logic - the data date - and any schedule constraints.






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.






20. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.






21. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.






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.






23. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.






24. A schedule compression technique in which activities or phases normally done in sequence are performed in parallel for at least a portion of their duration.






25. 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.






26. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.






27. 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.






28. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.






29. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.






30. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.






31. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.






32. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.






33. 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.






34. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.






35. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.






36. 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.






37. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.






38. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.






39. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.






40. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.






41. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed - documented and managed.






42. 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.






43. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.






44. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.






45. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.






46. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.






47. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.






48. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.






49. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.






50. 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.