Cert flashcards 6
A distinct, scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Activity
The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity. See also duration.
Activity Duration
A documented tabulation of schedule actions that shows the action description, action identifier, and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed.
Activity List
The quantitative assessments of the likely number of time periods that are required to complete an activity.
Activity Duration Estimates
A technique for assessing the duration or cost of an activity or a project using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Analogous Estimating
Supporting documentation outlining the details used in establishing project estimates, such as assumptions, constraints, level of detail, ranges, and confidence levels.
Basis of Estimates
A method of assessing project duration or cost by aggregating the appraisals of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Bottom-Up Estimating
The process of monitoring the status of the project to update the project schedule and manage changes to the schedule baseline.
Control Schedule
A technique for assessing the duration or cost of an activity or a project using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Analogous Estimating
Supporting documentation outlining the details used in establishing project estimates, such as assumptions, constraints, level of detail, ranges, and confidence levels.
Basis of Estimates
A method of assessing project duration or cost by aggregating the appraisals of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Bottom-Up Estimating
The process of monitoring the status of the project to update the project schedule and manage changes to the schedule baseline.
Control Schedule
A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources.
Crashing
A procedure used to estimate the minimum project duration and determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on the logical network courses within the schedule model.
Critical Chain Method
The sequence of activities that represents the longest course through a project, which determines the shortest possible duration.
Critical Path
A method used to estimate the minimum project duration and determine the amount of schedule flexibility on the logical network paths within the schedule model.
Critical Path Method (CPM)
The process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables.
Define Activities
The process of analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints to create the project schedule model for project execution and monitoring and controlling.
Develop Schedule
An activity that can be planned and measured and that yields a specific output. [Note: This is one of three earned value management (EVM) types of activities used to measure work performance.]
Discrete Effort
A relationship that is established based on knowledge of best practices within a particular application area or some unusual aspect of the project where a specific sequence is desired.
Discretionary Dependency
The total number of work periods required to complete an activity or work breakdown structure component, expressed in hours, days, or weeks.
Duration (DU or DUR)
In the critical path method, the soonest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can be completed based on the schedule network logic, the data date, and any schedule constraints.
Early Finish Date (EF)
In the critical path method, the soonest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can begin based on the schedule network logic, the data date, and any schedule constraints.
Early Start Date (ES)
The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component, often expressed in hours, days, or weeks.
Effort
The process of developing an approximation of the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with identified resources.
Estimate Activity Durations
An analysis technique where a computer model is iterated many times, with the input values chosen at random for each iteration driven by the input data, including probability distributions and probabilistic branches. Outputs are generated to represent the range of possible outcomes for the project.
Monte Carlo Simulation