PMR: Chapter 1 - Recognize Core Terminology

Regulations

Requirements imposed by a governmental body. These requirements can establish product, process, or service characteristics, including applicable administrative provisions that have government-mandated compliance.

Deployment Plans

How a completed product will be deployed.

Issue Log

A document that contains the logged issues.

Fish one (Ishikawa) Diagram

A Cause-and-Effect decomposition tool used in project management. This method is used to determine the root cause of a problem so that improvements can be made. The Effect represents the problem.

Gantt Chart

A bar chart of schedule information where activities are listed on the vertical axis, dates are shown on the horizontal axis, and activity durations are shown as horizontal bars placed according to start and finish dates.

Communications Management Plan

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.

Change Management

A comprehensive, cyclic, and structured approach for transitioning individuals, groups, and organizations from a current state to a future state with intended business benefits.

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.

Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)

A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

A hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables.

Stakeholder Engagement Assessment Matrix

A matrix that compares current and desired stakeholder engagement levels.

Risk Register

A place where all of the risk management processes are recorded.

Stakeholder Register

A project document that includes information about project stakeholders including an assessment and classification of project stakeholders.

Product Life Cycle

A series of phases that represent the evolution of a product, from concept through delivery, growth, maturity, and to retirement.

Milestone

A significant point or event in a project, program, or portfolio.

Milestone Schedule

A type of schedule that presents milestones with planned dates.

Responsibility

An assignment that can be delegated within a project management plan such that the assigned resource incurs a duty to perform the requirements of the assignment.

Stakeholder

An individual, group, or organization who may affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by a decision, activity, or outcome of a project.

Project Schedule

An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates, durations, milestones, and resources.

Risk

An uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.

SWOT Analysis

Analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of an organization, project, or option.

Risk Report

Document developed over the course of project. Summation of the risks specific to the project and the overall project risk level.

Aspirational Standards

Goals we try to reach or strive to uphold.

Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)

Integrated scope, schedule, and cost baselines used for comparison to manage, measure, and control project execution.

Portfolio

Projects, programs, subsidiary portfolios, and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.

RAID

Risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies.

Project Management

The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements

Budget

The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure (WBS) component or any schedule activity.

Schedule Baseline

The approved version of a schedule model that can be changed using formal change control procedures and is used as the basis for comparison to actual results.

Scope Baseline

The approved version of a scope statement, work breakdown structure (WBS), and its associated WBS dictionary that can be changed using formal change control procedures and is used as the basis for comparison to actual results.

Baseline

The approved version of a work product, used as a basis for comparison to actual results.

Cost Baseline

The approved version of the time-phased project budget, excluding any management reserves, which can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.

Quality

The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements.

Project Management Plan

The document that describes how the project will be executed monitored, and controlled, and closed.

Product Scope

The features and functions that characterize a product, service, or result.

Governance

The framework for directing and enabling an organization through its established policies, practices, and other relevant documentation.

Project Manager (PM)

The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.

Project Life Cycle

The series of phases that a project passes through from its start to its completion.

Scope Creep

The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time, cost, and resources.

Decision Trees

Visual tools that a project manager can use to evaluate costs and potential outcomes associated with certain project decisions.