_PMBOK DEFINITIONS Flashcards
Acceptance Criteria
A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Accepted Deliverables
Products, results, or capabilities produced by a project and validated by the project custom or sponsors as meeting their specified acceptance criteria.
Accuracy
Within the quality management system, accuracy is an assessment of correctness.
Acquire Resources
The process of obtaining team members, facilities, equipment, materials, supplies, and other resources necessary to complete project work.
Acquisition
Obtaining human and material resources necessary to perform project activities. Acquisition implies a co of resources, and is not necessarily financial.
Activity
A distinct, scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Activity Attributes
Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. Activity attributes include activity codes, predecessor activities, successor activities, logical relationships, leads a lags, resource requirements, imposed dates, constraints, and assumptions.
Activity Duration
The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity. See also duration.
Activity Duration Estimates
The quantitative assessments of the likely number of time periods that are required complete an activity.
Activity List
A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description, activity identifier, and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed
Activity-on-Node (AON)
See precedence diagramming method (PDM).
Actual Cost (AC)
The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Actual Duration
The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either t data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete.
Adaptive Life Cycle
A project life cycle that is iterative or incremental.
Affinity Diagrams
A technique that allows large numbers of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis
Agreements
Any document or communication that defines the initial intentions of a project. This can take the form a contract, memorandum of understanding (MOU), letters of agreement, verbal agreements, email, etc.
Alternative Analysis
A technique used to evaluate identified options in order to select the options or approaches to use to execute and perform the work of the project.
Analogous Estimating
A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Analytical Techniques
Various techniques used to evaluate, analyze, or forecast potential outcomes based on possible variations of project or environmental variables and their relationships with other variables.
Assumption
factor in the planning factor in the planning process that is considered to be true, real, or certain, without proof or demonstration.
Assumption Log
A project document used to record all assumptions and constraints throughout the project life cycle.
Attribute Sampling
Method of measuring quality that consists of noting the presence (or absence) of some characteristic (attribute) in each of the units under consideration.
Authority
The right to apply project resources, expend funds, make decisions, or give approvals.
Backward Pass
A critical path method technique for calculating the late start and late finish dates by working backward through the schedule model from the project end date.
Bar Chart
A graphic display of schedule-related information. In the typical bar chart, schedule activities or work breakdown structure components are listed down the left side of the chart, dates are shown across the top, and activity durations are shown as date-placed horizontal bars. See also Gantt chart.
Baseline
The approved version of a work product that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.
Basis of Estimates
Supporting documentation outlining the details used in establishing project estimates such as assumptions, constraints, level of detail, ranges, and confidence levels.
Benchmarking
Benchmarking is the comparison of actual or planned products, processes, and practices to those of comparable organizations to identify best practices, generate ideas for improvement, and provide a basis for measuring performance.
Benefits Management Plan
The documented explanation defining the processes for creating, maximizing, and sustaining the benefits provided by a project or program.
Bid Documents
All documents used to solicit information, quotations, or proposals from prospective sellers.
