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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Resource Leveling
Optimistic Duration
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Milestone
2. 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.
Gantt Chart
Most Likely Duration
Requirement
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
3. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Risk Mitigation
Scope Creep
Decomposition
Sponsor
4. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Path Convergence
Organizational Process Assets
Start-to-Start
Risk Mitigation
5. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Product Life Cycle
Defect Repair
Risk Management Plan
Risk Transference
6. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Quality Management Plan
Resource Leveling
Requirements Management Plan
Procurement Management Plan
7. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Earned Value
Project Scope Statement
Opportunity
Earned Value Management
8. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Threat
Late Finish Date
Schedule Model
Data Date
9. 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.
Program
Precedence Diagramming Method
Resource Breakdown Structure
Schedule Model Analysis
10. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Activity
Resource Calendar
Level of Effort
Bottom-up Estimating
11. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Project Calendar
Activity
Program
Change Control System
12. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Project Scope Statement
Project Management Plan
Precedence Diagramming Method
Acceptance Criteria
13. The work performed to deliver a product - service - or result with the specified features and functions.
Project Scope
Estimate at Completion
Estimate to Complete
Phase Gate
14. 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.
Project Charter
Risk Category
Secondary Risk
Activity
15. 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.
Risk Management Plan
Portfolio
Fast Tracking
What-If Sce
16. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Project
Fast Tracking
Cost Variance
Level of Effort
17. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Stakeholder
Discrete Effort
Schedule Model
Schedule Variance
18. 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.
Baseline
Project Management Office
Total Float
Acceptance Criteria
19. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Predecessor Activity
Probability and Impact Matrix
Phase Gate
Project Schedule Network Diagram
20. The approved version of a schedule model that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.
Cost Variance
Schedule Baseline
Project Charter
Critical Path Method
21. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Earned Value
Precedence Diagramming Method
Data Date
Summary Activity
22. 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.
Resource Calendar
Critical Path Activity
Human Resource Plan
Performing Organization
23. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Effort
Schedule Management Plan
Lead
Risk Category
24. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Acceptance Criteria
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Human Resource Plan
Path Divergence
25. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
S-Curve Analysis
Product Life Cycle
Secondary Risk
WBS Dictionary
26. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Project Life Cycle
Optimistic Duration
Staffing Management Plan
Project Calendar
27. 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.
Critical Path
Precedence Diagramming Method
To-Complete Performance Index
Optimistic Duration
28. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Critical Path Activity
Progressive Elaboration
Finish-to-Finish
Risk
29. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Project Management Plan
Portfolio Balancing
Project Management Office
Late Start Date
30. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Cost Variance
Schedule Baseline
WBS Dictionary
Project Management Plan
31. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Preventive Action
Milestone
Project Life Cycle
Staffing Management Plan
32. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Logical Relationship
Change Request
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Requirements Management Plan
33. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Project Management Office
Project Management
Project Life Cycle
Scope Management Plan
34. 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.
Three-Point Estimate
Stakeholder
Percent Complete
Product Life Cycle
35. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
WBS Dictionary
Crashing
Milestone
Change Control System
36. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Portfolio Balancing
Schedule Management Plan
Risk Transference
Total Float
37. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Threat
Risk Acceptance
Program Management Office
What-If Sce
38. 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.
Product Life Cycle
Assumption
Schedule Model
Program Management
39. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Late Finish Date
Milestone
Stakeholder
Project Phase
40. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Early Finish Date
WBS Dictionary
Estimate to Complete
Decomposition
41. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Risk Register
Forward Pass
Late Finish Date
Lead
42. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Actual Cost
Opportunity
Activity
Program
43. 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.
Total Float
Resource Calendar
Critical Path Activity
Early Start Date
44. 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
Percent Complete
Analogous Estimating
Deliverable
45. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Analogous Estimating
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Risk Register
Change Control Board
46. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Schedule Performance Index
Risk Avoidance
Percent Complete
Program
47. 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.
Resource Leveling
Optimistic Duration
Decomposition
Gantt Chart
48. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Change Control System
Finish-to-Start
Code of Accounts
Corrective Action
49. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Risk Mitigation
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Constraint
Project Manager
50. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Milestone
Discrete Effort
Critical Path Method
Actual Cost