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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Quality Management Plan
Planned Value
Finish-to-Finish
Risk Mitigation
2. A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Control Account
Estimate to Complete
Project Schedule Network Diagram
3. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Logical Relationship
Phase Gate
Gantt Chart
Lead
4. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Resource Leveling
Preventive Action
Cost Management Plan
Organizational Process Assets
5. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Portfolio Management
Resource Breakdown Structure
Deliverable
Corrective Action
6. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Control Account
Start-to-Finish
Probability and Impact Matrix
Variance at Completion
7. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Milestone
Sponsor
Portfolio Balancing
Performing Organization
8. An estimate expressed as a percent of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component.
Planned Value
Percent Complete
Free Float
Forward Pass
9. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Critical Path Activity
Three-Point Estimate
Risk Transference
Portfolio
10. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Cost Variance
Schedule Model Analysis
Path Convergence
Constraint
11. 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.
Project
Schedule Management Plan
Resource Leveling
Effort
12. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Schedule Variance
Risk Register
Baseline
S-Curve Analysis
13. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Milestone
Lag
Project Life Cycle
Project Management Plan
14. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Defect Repair
Free Float
Data Date
Critical Path
15. 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.
Deliverable
WBS Dictionary
Stakeholder
Project Scope Statement
16. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Defect Repair
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Procurement Management Plan
Project Management
17. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Quality Management Plan
Project Life Cycle
Portfolio Management
Sponsor
18. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Risk Management Plan
Data Date
Project Calendar
Portfolio Management
19. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
What-If Sce
Lag
Project Schedule
Early Start Date
20. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Organizational Process Assets
Crashing
Start-to-Start
Late Start Date
21. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Assumption
Resource Leveling
Bottom-up Estimating
Project Charter
22. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Discrete Effort
Change Control
Preventive Action
Early Start Date
23. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Secondary Risk
Project
Risk Transference
Gantt Chart
24. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Change Control
Lead
Staffing Management Plan
25. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Deliverable
Free Float
Pessimistic Duration
Schedule Variance
26. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Start-to-Finish
Change Control System
Start-to-Start
Risk Register
27. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Human Resource Plan
Project
Schedule Compression
Enterprise Environmental Factors
28. A method used to estimate the minimum project duration and determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on the logical network paths within the schedule model.
Estimate at Completion
Critical Path Method
Opportunity
Secondary Risk
29. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
Effort
Risk Avoidance
WBS Dictionary
Cost Performance Index
30. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Earned Value Management
Finish-to-Start
Critical Chain Method
Budget at Completion
31. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Schedule Compression
Project Phase
Program Management
Forward Pass
32. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Path Convergence
Phase Gate
Project Management Office
Risk Transference
33. 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.
Start-to-Finish
Percent Complete
Schedule Baseline
Early Finish Date
34. 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
Program
Variance at Completion
Lag
35. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Change Control Board
Program Management
Schedule Management Plan
Scope Creep
36. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Path Convergence
Resource Calendar
Constraint
Product Life Cycle
37. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Procurement Management Plan
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Most Likely Duration
Effort
38. 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.
Actual Cost
Code of Accounts
Program
Procurement Management Plan
39. 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.
Project Life Cycle
Precedence Diagramming Method
Project Management Office
Three-Point Estimate
40. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined - developed - monitored - controlled - and verified.
Scope Management Plan
Apportioned Effort
Stakeholder
Trigger Condition
41. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Lessons Learned
Change Control System
Probability and Impact Matrix
Schedule Model
42. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Acceptance Criteria
Milestone
WBS Dictionary
Path Divergence
43. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Path Convergence
Control Account
Threat
Project Scope Statement
44. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Early Start Date
Probability and Impact Matrix
Change Control System
Project Manager
45. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Resource Calendar
Variance at Completion
Early Finish Date
Crashing
46. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Summary Activity
Schedule Model
Risk
Three-Point Estimate
47. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Scope Baseline
Program Management Office
Level of Effort
Planned Value
48. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Parametric Estimating
Variance at Completion
Scope Management Plan
Procurement Management Plan
49. A review at the end of a phase in which a decision is made to continue to the next phase - to continue with modification - or to end a project or program.
Portfolio
Path Convergence
Risk Acceptance
Phase Gate
50. 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.
Deliverable
Resource Calendar
Project
Cost Variance