Vocabulary 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 customer 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 cost 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, suppressor activities, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, imposed dates, constraints, and assumptions
Activity Duration
The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in process or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete.
Activity Duration Estimates
the quantitive assessment of the likely number of time periods that are required to 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
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 the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the scheduled 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 of a contract, memorandum on 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 approached 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 project or activity
Analogous
Comparable
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
a 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 through 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
