Glossary of Terms 101-200 Flashcards
An analytical technique to determine the information needs of the project stakeholders through interviews, workshops, or study of lessons learned from previous projects, etc.
Communication Requirements Analysis
A technique to identify the preferred communication method, format, and content for stakeholders for planned communication activities.
Communication Styles Assessment
Specific tools, automated systems, computer programs, etc., used to transfer information among project stakeholders.
Communication Technology
A component of the project, program, or portfolio management plan that describes how, when, and by whom information about the project will be administered and disseminated.
Communications Management Plan
As described by E. Wenger in his book, Cultivating Communities of Practice, the CoP uses the same basic idea as used by Shell in their offshore drilling platforms to establish local forums of “experts” with the specific mandate to create an arena in which project managers would feel comfortable sharing their findings and learnings from their projects.
Community of Practice (CoP)
A type of contract that is completed when the vendor delivers the product to the buyer and the buyer accepts the product.
Completion Contract
A characteristic of a program, project, or its environment, which is difficult to manage due to human behavior, system behavior, or ambiguity.
Complexity
The state of meeting—or being in accord with—organizational, legal, certification or other relevant regulations.
Compliance
An option in conflict management in which both parties give up something to reach an agreement.
Compromise
The process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, and awarding a contract.
Conduct Procurement Process
Agile term describing the difficulty of estimating early due to unknowns and how that should improve over time.
Cone of Uncertainty
Any component or project element that needs to be managed to ensure the successful delivery of the project, services, or result.
Configuration Item
A tool used to manage changes to a product or service being produced as well as changes to any of the project documents—for example, schedule updates.
Configuration Management
A component of the project management plan that describes how to identify and account for project artifacts under configuration control and how to record and report changes to them.
Configuration Management Plan
A collection of procedures used to track project artifacts and monitor and control changes to these artifacts.
Configuration Management System
Difference of opinion or agenda on a project amongst team members, stakeholders, or customers.
Conflict
The application of one or more strategies for dealing with disagreements that may be detrimental to team performance.
Conflict Management
The process of working to reach an agreement after a conflict situation arises.
Conflict Resolution
Group decision technique in which the group agrees to support an outcome even if the individuals do not agree with the decision.
Consensus
An external factor that limits the ability to plan. Constraints and assumptions are closely linked.
Constraint
A visual depiction of the product scope showing a business system (process, equipment, computer system, etc.), and how people and other systems (actors) interact with it.
Context Diagram
A risk response strategy developed in advance before risks occur; it is meant to be used if and when identified risks become reality.
Contingency Plan
Time or money allocated in the schedule or cost baseline for known risks with active response strategies.
Contingency Reserve
A theory credited to Fred. E. Fielder which states that the set of skills and attributes that helped a project manager in one environment may work against them in another environment.
Contingency Theory