Ch 1 Flashcards
The PMI publication that defines widely accepted project management principles. The CAPM and the PMP exam are based on this book.
A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK)
The areas of expertise, industry, or function where a project is centered. Examples include architecture, IT, healthcare, and manufacturing.
Application Areas
A person who has slightly less project management experience than a PMP, but who has qualified for and then passed the CAPM examination.
Certified associate in project management (CAPM)
Defines how a project affects people and how those people may affect the project.
Includes the economic, educational, ethical, religious, demographic, and ethnic composition of the people affected by the project.
Cultural and Social Environment
A product, service, or result created by a project. Projects can have multiple…
Deliverable
These include the application of accounting, procurement, sales and marketing, contracting, manufacturing, logistics, strategic planning, human resource management, standards and regulations, and information technology.
General Management Skills
The consideration of the local an international laws, languages, communication challenges, time zone differences, and other non-collected issues that affect a Projects ability to progress.
International and political environment
The ability to interact, lead, motivate, and manage people.
Interpersonal skills
A triangle with the characteristics of time, cost, and scope.
Iron triangle of project management
 The physical structure and surroundings that affect a project’s work.
Physical environment
Collection of related projects working on in unison toward a common deliverable.
Program
 The process of gathering project details. This process uses deductive reasoning, logic, and a series of information gathering techniques to identify details about a project, product, or solution.
Progressive elaboration
A temporary endeavor to create a unique product, service, or results. The end result is also called it a deliverable.
Project
The location and culture of the environment where the project will reside.
Project environment
An organization of project management professionals from around the world, supporting and promoting the careers, values, and concerns of project managers.
Project Management Institute
Essential office that oversees all projects within an organization or a thin a functional department.
Supports the project manager through software, training, templates, policies, communication, dispute resolution, and other services.
Project management office (PMO)
A person who has proven project management experience and has qualified for and then pass the PMP examination.
Project management professional
The management and selection of projects that support an organizations vision admission.
It is the balance of project priority, risk, reward, and return on investment.
This is a senior management process.
Project portfolio management
A smaller project manage within a larger, parents project; often contracted work whose deliverable allows the larger project progress.
Subprojects
Also known as the Iron Triangle. This theory posits that time, cost, and scope or three constraints that every project has.
Triple Constraints of Project Management
