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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team






2. Shows the type of resources broken down






3. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.






4. Conflict Solution where there is an effort in which attempts are made to work out the actual problem. It is the best type of conflict resolution






5. One choice does not include any other choices






6. An inventory managment process that lets a company have little or no excess inventory in stock- Ideally a stocks ZERO inventory with supplies arriving only when needed for the products being built






7. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired






8. PM and team work to create a complete estimate from the bottom(activity level) up and roll it up to the total estimate. Main advantage - detail accuracy. Main dis ad - can take time to create






9. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk






10. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






11. The narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints - and a description of work - that provides a documents basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developi






12. Used for very large volumes of information or for very large audiences that requires the recipients to access the communication content at their own discretion - Inclued intranet sites - e-learning - and knowledge repositories






13. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






14. Type of communication method between two or more parties performing a multidirectional exchange of information. It is the most efficient way to ensure a common understanding by all participants on specified topics - and inclues meetings - and phones






15. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance






16. Key tool that is a statistical method or tool - that helps identify which factors may influence specific variable of a product or process under development or in production. It lets you change many factors at once.






17. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them






18. Type of power comes from an attitude or presence that a person has and the corresponding type of influence this person has on the team. It could also come from someone who aligns with other people in a powerful posistion at the company or on the team






19. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports






20. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment






21. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays






22. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements






23. Process of determining the project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach. Who needs what information - when they need it - how it will be provided to them and by whom.






24. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur






25. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category






26. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






27. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free






28. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue






29. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement






30. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish






31. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






32. Inputs to many processes that deal with variables external to the project - such as imfomation systems and company policies and procedures. They can include process definitions - templates - organizations communications needs






33. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization






34. Tool you can use initially in a project to evaluate what could potentially cause defects. You can use it during the project to review symptoms to determine the real problem (continue to ask questions until the root cause is determine)






35. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan






36. Type of Mgmt style where the PM sees what can be - where the company or team needs to go. Focusing more on the big picture of the company - with others focusing on the day to day events.






37. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate






38. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness






39. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






40. Factors that limits project options such as the number of people available - amount of time or money available to finish the job or other resources or assest issues






41. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur






42. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy






43. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.






44. Shows a reporting relationship between the resources in a organization. This structure is typically shown in company division - departments and group. Typicall is does not show details related to project organization and work






45. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)






46. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete






47. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...






48. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership






49. Chart used Project Management on the left - Talbe of information (Usually activities - dates - resources etc) on Right - horizontal bars showing when those activities are occuring use it to track the day-to-day.






50. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities







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