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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






2. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.






3. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function






4. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards






5. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.






6. 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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7. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals






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






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






10. Earlier in the project - the PM does directing - as the project evolves the PM shifts towards coaching. As the project gets a great deal of work accomplished - the PM goes to a Facilitator. The PM then goes to support at project closure






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






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






13. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates






14. 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






15. Play a huge role in planning - When you perform project management part of the concept of Planning is to deal with items unkown. You must make assumptions for scheduling and bugeting. In most cases as the project evoles - you learn more about it.






16. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance






21. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance






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






23. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed






24. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes






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






26. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....

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27. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale






28. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative






29. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears






30. A schedule network analysis technique applied to a schedule that has already been analyzed by the critical path method. It can be used when shared or critical required resources are only available at certain time - are only available in limited quan






31. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort






32. Formal or informal system used in project management to ensure that the work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people






33. 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






34. Commuincation within the project






35. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization






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






37. What is the number source of conflict?






38. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome






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






40. 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






41. 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






42. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity






43. 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.






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






45. 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






46. 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






47. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






48. 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.






49. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






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