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PMI Project Management Vocab

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






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






3. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.






4. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.






5. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.






9. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.






10. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.






11. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.






12. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.






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






14. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.






15. 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.






16. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.






17. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.






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






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






20. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.






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






22. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.






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






24. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.






25. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.






26. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.






27. 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.






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






29. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.






30. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.






31. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.






32. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.






33. 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.






34. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.






46. 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.






47. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.






48. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.






49. 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.






50. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule