Project Integration Management Flashcards
What is PIM?
Project Integration Management includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the Project Management Process Groups.
What is PMBOK?
An inclusive term that describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. As with other professions, such as law, medicine, and accounting, the body of knowledge rests with the practitioners and academics that apply and advance it. The complete project management body of knowledge includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging in the profession. The body of knowledge includes both published and unpublished materials. This body of knowledge is constantly evolving. PMI’s PMBOK® Guide identifies that subset of the project management body of knowledge that is generally recognized as good practice.
What is PM?
The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
What is a PM knowledge area?
An identified area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes, practices, inputs, outputs, tools, and techniques.
What is a PM process group?
A logical grouping of project management inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs. The Project Management Process Groups include initiating processes, planning processes, executing processes, monitoring and controlling processes, and closing processes. Project Management Process Groups are not project phases.
What is PMIS?
An information system consisting of the tools and techniques used to gather, integrate, and disseminate the outputs of project management processes. It is used to support all aspects of the project from initiating through closing, and can include both manual and automated systems.
What is a PMS?
The aggregation of the processes, tools, techniques, methodologies, resources, and procedures to manage a project.
What is a PMP?
A formal, approved document that defines how the project is executed, monitored, and controlled. It may be a summary or detailed and may be composed of one or more subsidiary management plans and other planning documents.
What is a Project Management Team?
The members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities. On some smaller projects, the project management team may include virtually all of the project team members.
Who is a PM?
The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives.
Whta is a PMO?
An organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain. The responsibilities of a PMO can range from providing project management support functions to actually being responsible for the direct management of a project.
What is a Project phase?
A collection of logically related project activities, usually culminating in the completion of a major deliverable. Project phases are mainly completed sequentially, but can overlap in some project situations. A project phase is a component of a project life cycle. A project phase is not a Project Management Process Group.
What is a project organizational chart?
A document that graphically depicts the project team members and their interrelationships for a specific project.
What is a project life cycle?
A collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organizations involved in the project. A life cycle can be documented with a methodology.
What is a Project Charter?
A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project, and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
What is project initiation?
Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project.
What is Parametric estimating?
An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (e.g., square footage in construction, lines of code in software development) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters, such as scope, cost, budget, and duration. An example for the cost parameter is multiplying the planned quantity of work to be performed by the historical cost per unit to obtain the estimated cost.
What is a Pareto Chart?
A histogram, ordered by frequency of occurrence, that shows how many results were generated by each identified cause.
What is path convergence (in a schedule network diagram)?
The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. Path convergence is characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity.
What is path divergence?
Extending or generating parallel schedule network paths from the same node in a project schedule network diagram. Path divergence is characterized by a schedule activity with more than one successor activity.
