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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.
Project Management Office
Analogous Estimating
Human Resource Plan
Start-to-Finish
2. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Early Start Date
Project Calendar
Budget at Completion
Schedule Compression
3. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Project Management Plan
Optimistic Duration
Successor Activity
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
4. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
What-If Sce
Risk
Probability and Impact Matrix
Summary Activity
5. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Organizational Process Assets
Path Divergence
Risk Category
Risk Breakdown Structure
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.
Performing Organization
Scope Baseline
Resource Breakdown Structure
Gantt Chart
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.
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Most Likely Duration
Lessons Learned
Total Float
8. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Project Calendar
Critical Path
Critical Path Activity
Project Scope Statement
9. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Estimate to Complete
Trigger Condition
Forward Pass
Pessimistic Duration
10. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio Management
Schedule Variance
Bottom-up Estimating
Lead
11. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Logical Relationship
Sponsor
S-Curve Analysis
Late Finish Date
12. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Decision Tree Analysis
Resource Leveling
13. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Planned Value
Preventive Action
Secondary Risk
14. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
To-Complete Performance Index
Critical Path
Organizational Process Assets
Successor Activity
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.
Actual Cost
Three-Point Estimate
Cost Variance
Predecessor Activity
16. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Optimistic Duration
Quality Management Plan
Trigger Condition
Risk Transference
17. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Human Resource Plan
Most Likely Duration
WBS Dictionary
Precedence Diagramming Method
18. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
WBS Dictionary
Schedule Performance Index
Product Life Cycle
Lessons Learned
19. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Staffing Management Plan
Assumption
Trigger Condition
Path Divergence
20. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Resource Leveling
Path Divergence
Program Management Office
Cost Performance Index
21. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Risk Mitigation
Budget at Completion
Defect Repair
Code of Accounts
22. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Parametric Estimating
Project
Procurement Management Plan
Performing Organization
23. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Project Manager
Project Scope Statement
Activity
Schedule Compression
24. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Schedule Model Analysis
Requirement
Earned Value
Opportunity
25. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Performing Organization
Change Request
S-Curve Analysis
Risk
26. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Project Schedule
Risk Mitigation
Lag
Earned Value
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.
Program Management
Cost Variance
Secondary Risk
Staffing Management Plan
28. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
To-Complete Performance Index
Project Management Plan
Activity
Backward Pass
29. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Project Scope
Deliverable
Corrective Action
Constraint
30. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Requirement
Risk Register
Code of Accounts
Early Start Date
31. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Human Resource Plan
Assumption
Effort
Actual Cost
32. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Pessimistic Duration
Trigger Condition
Control Account
Scope Creep
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.
Program Management
Stakeholder
Late Start Date
Parametric Estimating
34. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Parametric Estimating
Project Calendar
Bottom-up Estimating
Probability and Impact Matrix
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.
Threat
Late Finish Date
Level of Effort
Trigger Condition
36. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Early Start Date
Cost Performance Index
Schedule Performance Index
Lag
37. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Schedule Performance Index
Effort
Project Manager
Decision Tree Analysis
38. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
What-If Sce
Lag
Risk
Schedule Performance Index
39. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Path Convergence
Communication Management Plan
Threat
Critical Chain Method
40. A hierarchical representation of the project organization - which illustrates the relationship between project activities and the organizational units that will perform those activities.
Cost Performance Index
Portfolio Balancing
Successor Activity
Organizational Breakdown Structure
41. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Defect Repair
Project Scope Statement
Probability and Impact Matrix
Predecessor Activity
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.
Budget at Completion
Control Account
Procurement Management Plan
Path Divergence
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.
Gantt Chart
Precedence Diagramming Method
Three-Point Estimate
Progressive Elaboration
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.
Risk
Percent Complete
Deliverable
Earned Value Management
45. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Total Float
Logical Relationship
Program Management Office
Portfolio Management
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.
Variance at Completion
Secondary Risk
Schedule Model
Schedule Compression
47. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Early Start Date
Project
Parametric Estimating
Trigger Condition
48. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Forward Pass
Estimate to Complete
Risk Category
Project Management Office
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.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Scope Baseline
Forward Pass
Start-to-Start
50. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Rolling Wave Planning
Schedule Model Analysis
Activity
Performing Organization