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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. 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






2. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






3. Form - creation of the team - Storm - refers to the chaos that occurs when people start working together - Norm - behavior starts to normalize - Perform - activity that transpires as the team works as a team instead of solo - Adjourn - work is compl






4. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






5. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment






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






7. ID all potential project stakeholders - Identify the potential impact or support each other stakeholder could generate and classify them ...ie the grids - Assess how key stakeholders are likley to react or respond in various situations






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






9. 3 main components of the communication model






10. Schedule typically used in executive repoting with each milestone having a zero duration. It lack detail - generally listing only the main project milestones as diamonds instead of the Gantt bars






11. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






12. Type of communication method sent to a specific recipient who needs to know the information - This method ensures that the communication is distributed but does not certify that it actually reached or was understood by the intended audience Includes






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






14. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological

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15. Difference between internal and external risk






16. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?






17. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start






18. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse






19. 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






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






21. 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.






22. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






23. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.






24. Plan defines the communication needs of the stakeholders - the communications format and frequency and who delivers them. It can include reports meeting scehdules - changes process and contact information for the team.






25. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






26. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase






27. Communication in writing or oral






28. 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






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






30. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists






31. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as






32. 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






33. 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.






34. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?






35. 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.






36. Type of Grid that groups the stakholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution






37. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components






38. 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






39. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame






40. Document that develops and helps attain buy-in on a common interpretation of the project scope. It can describe what it is - as wel as what is not - in the project






41. 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






42. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks






43. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics






44. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes






45. 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.






46. 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






47. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)






48. 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






49. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






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