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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
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2. A planning technique which progressively details the work as information becomes firm - and allows for less detail in later project phase where uncertainty is greater is called
Resource breakdown structure
ISO 3 Steps
Rolling Wave Planning
People responsible for quality
3. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Contingency Reserves
Concept of the Halo Theory
Pure Risk
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
4. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Director
Interactive Communication
Total Quality Management TQM
Horizontal Comm
5. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Influence/Impact grid
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Salience Model
6. 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
Contraints
Work around
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
FORMAL Communication
7. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Zero duration
Approved Change
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Variance Analysis
8. Used for communication and information distribution on the project - not necessarily a hightech system but what ever is used for project communication on the project. Normally a mixture of technology and non-technology.
PMIS
Develop Project Team
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Team development Life Cycle
9. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel
Progress Report
Phase results are verified and documented
Resource breakdown structure
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
10. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Indentify Stakholders
Staffing Mgmt Plan
11. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Develop Project Charter
Controlling communication
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Commincations Mgmt plan
12. 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
Risk Breakdown Structure
Work Authorization System
Charismatic
Just-in-time (JIT)
13. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Risk Breakdown Structure
Bottom-up Estimating
Time series method
Project Slack
14. A milestone has a ______duration
Zero duration
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Compromising
Brainstorming
15. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Critical Path Method
Risk Triggers
Stakeholder Analysis
16. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
External Comm
Mediator
Power/Influence Grid
Demings' 14 principles of Management
17. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Risk Register
FORMAL Communication
Status Reports
Mgmt Reserves
18. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Pareto Diagram
Secondary Risk
Pure Risk
Breach
19. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Plan Risk Mgmt
Offical
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Change Control Board
20. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes
Approved Change
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Internal comm
Salience Model
21. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Project Slack
Bottom-up Estimating
Compromising
Conformance
22. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Variance Analysis
Concept of the Halo Theory
Change Control System
Resource breakdown structure
23. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
6 sigma
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Mutual Exclusivity
Work Authorization System
24. The Process of prioritizing risk for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact - The Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives
Smoothing/Accommodating
Bottom-up estimating
Create WBS
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
25. Type of Mgmt style that brings out the best in the team - bringing mbrs to their potential or where they need to be with regard to the project
Coaching
Milestone list
ISO 3 Steps
Phase results are verified and documented
26. 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.
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Visionary
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Perks
27. Generally seen as the founding basis for total quality managment - Main Points are: 1. be proactive - not reactive 2. Utilize leadership and accountability 3. Measure and strive for constant improvement
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28. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Work Authorization System
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
29. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Bill of materials
Critical Chain Method
Risk Register
People responsible for quality
30. What the project consist of - What is involved to create the project - What it is expected to do when complete ( to avoid confusion) What is the ? What are the elements
Run Chart
Elements of scope
Critical Chain Method
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
31. Communication that is not on the record
Activity List
Unoffical Comm
6 sigma
Critical Chain Method
32. Type of Mgmt style that tries to find a common goal when there is a disagreement. This style is ideal when there are varying technical opinions or disagreement among resources managers
Critical Chain Method
Mediator
Indentify Stakholders
Causal/econometric
33. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Charismatic
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Forcing
34. Conflict Solution Negotiation attempt to get everyone involved to give (concede) a little to find a common ground and resloution. It is sometimes viewed as undesirable because when everyone give something up there is a potential that the solution wil
Compromising
Forcing
Develop Project Team
Brainstorming
35. Commuincation within the project
Forcasting
6 sigma
Controlling communication
Internal comm
36. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Power/Influence Grid
Smoothing and withdrawal
Approved Change
Closing the project
37. Inputs to many process because they deal w/ variables external to the project such as government requlations and market conditions. Examples are org structure govt standards - personnel - policies business market
Power/ Interest Grid
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Forcing
Approved Change
38. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution.
6 sigma
Develop Human Resource Plan
Sample Testing
Influence/Impact grid
39. Shows an aggregate or rolled up view of the various activites at the summary level. It gives senior management - the project management team - a picture of how long the summary level work packages are to take - and what sequence they occur
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Summary Schdule
Risk breakdown structure
Sample Testing
40. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Monte Carlo Technique
Compromising
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Sigma
41. Used with sceduling enviroments in which a forward pass establishes the easrliest the activities can start (ES) and finish (EF) and a backward pass establishes the latest the activites can start (LS) and finish (LF)
Penalty Power
Critical Path Method
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Project Slack
42. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Compromising
Reward Power
Project Selection
Closing the project
43. 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
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Cost plus percentage of cost
Interactive Communication
Scheduling
44. Responsiblity Assignment Matrix The tool lets the project team know who is involved in each area and what they are responsible for an in what area
Project Selection
RAM charts
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Communications requirement analysis
45. Breakdown structure to help dreak down the risk on a project. It helps create a brainstorming type of environment that allows the team to identify and categorize additional risk. Similar to WBS but the team creates it.
ISO 3 Steps
Sample Testing
Benchmarking
Risk Breakdown Structure
46. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Power/Influence Grid
90%
Fringe
47. Provides details of the planned Scope for the project - this includes the Project Scope Statment - WBS - WBS dictionary. It is the key output in the Create WBS.
Conformance
Power/ Interest Grid
Start to Finsh
Scope Baseline
48. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Mutual Exclusivity
Mediator
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Forcasting
49. When an activity cannot be estimated with a resonable degree of confidence the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail. Estimates are made to the smallest incremental level need and then aggregated into a total quantity for each of th
Bottom-up Estimating
Develop Project Team
Risk Breakdown Structure
Scatter Diagram
50. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
LAG
Make money and to protect the public
Sigma
Conflict between functional manager and project manager