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Project Management (CAPM)

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Functional Organization   Management shares project coordination and each has official authority over staffers in his/her own function. Overseen by a Project Coordinator rather than Project Manager.  
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Projectized Organization   Project managers run projects and have official authority over the project team.  
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Matrix Organization   Blend functional and projectized styles. Project Manager authority varies, but is generally greater than that of a project coordinator in a functional organization.  
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Project Manager   One responsible for managing the project  
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Project Coordinator   Oversees a project in a functional organization. Some decision making ability but limited.  
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Project Expediter   Oversees a project. Limited or no decision making capabilities  
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Life Cycle   Collected phases of generally sequential, sometimes overlapping phases of a project. Provides the basic framework for managing the project, regardless of the work details.  
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Reviews   Often called: Phase exits, stage gates or kill points  
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Project sponsor   Provides financial resources for project  
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Performing Organization   Enterprise whose employees are involved in doing the project work  
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Customer   Individuals or organization that will receive the projects' product  
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Project Team   Consists of project manager, project management team and others who are working together to complete the project.  
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Processes (5)   Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, Closing  
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Inputs   Documents or items that will be acted upon  
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Tools & Techniques   Mechanisms applied to inputs  
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Outputs   Documents or items that are produced  
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Knowledge areas (9)   Management of: Scope, Time, Cost, Human Resource, Communications, Risk, Integration, Quality and Procurement  
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Project Integration Management (PIM)   Processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated.  
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Change control System   Collection of formal documented procedures, tracking systems, archives and approval levels for reviewing and authorizing changes.  
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Integrated Change Control   Coordination and communication of change activities throughout the Change Control Systems of the different processes.  
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Change Requests   Identified during execution, handled by integrated change control.  
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Change Control Board   Formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for approving or rejecting changes to the project baselines: To provide a central control mechanism to ensure that every change request is properly considered, authorized and coordinated.  
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Project Planning Methodology   Any structured approach to guide a project team in plan development  
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Project Management Information System (PMIS)   Tools used to gather, integrate and communicate the products of project management processes. Used to support all processes groups, from initiation through closing. Includes both manual and automated systems.  
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Earned Value Management   A technique that integrates scope, schedule and cost to measure performance.  
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Project Plan   A formal, approved document used to manage project execution. Often revised.  
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Cost variance (CV)   Difference between est. cost and actual cost.  
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Estimate to Complete (ETC)   Expected additional cost from now to end  
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Schedule Variance (SV)   Difference between scheduled and actual completion date.  
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Variance at Completion (VC)   Amount difference at completion of project.  
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Configuration Management   Any documented procedure used to apply technical and administrative direction in order to document characteristics, control change, report change, audit items.  
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Performance Measurement   Tools that help assess whether there have been variances from plan that require corrective action.  
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Project Scope Management   Includes the processes required to insure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully.  
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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)   Representation of the scope of the project that shows component deliverables broken down to the most basic level.  
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Reasons to start a project   Market demand, Business need, Customer request, technological advance, legal requirement.  
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Product description   Characteristics of deliverable that is the object of the project, detail, original idea by customer  
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Strategic Plan   How the project fits with the long term goal of company  
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Project Selection Criteria   Benefit Measurement (comparative approach) or the Constrained Optimization (mathematical approach)  
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Product analysis   Better understanding of product, breakdown analysis, functional analysis, systems engineering, value engineering  
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Benefit/cost analysis   comparing the estimated tangible and intangible outlays with the returns  
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Scope Statement   documented basis for making future project decision  
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Scope Management Plan   How the project scope will be controlled  
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Scope definition   second of the core processes of planning process group. subdividing deliverables  
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Decompositon   subdividing major components into smaller manageable ones  
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Gantt Chart   Graphic display of schedule-related information. Shows activities on left side, dates across the top, and horizontal bars.  
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Activity On Node (AON)   Aka Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM), Boxes used to represent tasks, dependencies, additional relationships  
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Critical Path Method (CPM)   Estemates project duration by rolling up single estimate of each in-line activity on AOA diagram  
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Early Start/Early Finish   The soonest a task can begin or end  
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Forward Pass   Used to calculate Early Start/Early Finish  
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Late Start/Late Finish   Latest a task can begin of end without effecting the project duration  
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Backward Pass   Used to calculate Late Start/Late Finish  
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Slack or Float   Difference between the amount of time required for a task and the amount available for it  
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PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique)   Technique for estimating, applies a weighted average of optimistic, pessimistic, most likely. As in Duration = (B + 4M + W)/6  
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Monte Carlo Simulation   computer simulations of a project  
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Lead   An activity is scheduled to start sooner than its dependency  
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Lag   An activity is scheduled to start later than its dependency  
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Free Float   Amount of time an activity can be delayed without effecting the Early Start of its successor  
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Total Float   Amount of time an activity can be delayed without effecting the project completion date  
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Project Float   Amount of time a project can be delayed without delaying an externally imposed project completion date  
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Schedule Shortening techniques   (ct.p. scope) Re-estimating, crashing, fast-tracking  
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Life-Cycle Costing   Cost of resources needed to complete the project & impact of project decisions on cost of use for the project final product  
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EVM (Earned Value Management)   Tool for managing both the cost and time elements of a project  
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PV (Planned Value)   Authorized budget, sometimes referred to as the performance measurement baseline. Also know as the Budget at Completion (BAC).  
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EV (Earned Value)   Value of work performed expressed in terms of PV (BAC).  
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Actual Cost (AC)   Amount spent on the work performed to-date  
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SV (Schedule Variance)   A comparison of amount of work performed during a given period of time to what was scheduled to be performed. EV-PV=?  
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CV (Cost Variance)   A comparison of the budgeted cost of work performed with actual cost. EV-AC=?  
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SPI (Schedule Performance Index)   A measure of the progress achieved compared to planned progress. EV/PV=? A figure <1 means project is behind schedule.  
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CPI (Cost performance index)   A measure of the value of work completed compared to actual cost. Considered to be the most credit EVM metric. EV/AC=? A figure of <1 means project is over budget.  
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CSI: Cost Schedule Index   CSI = CPI x SPI, the further CSI is from 1.0 the less likely project recovery becomes  
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EAC (Estimate at completion)   Projected total cost of project from this point in the project. AC+ETC=?  
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ETC (Estimate to complete)   Projection of how much more will be spent from this point.(EAC-AC)  
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Variable Cost   Cost that changes with the amount of work/production  
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Fixed Cost   cost that doesn't change  
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direct cost   cost attributable to the project work  
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indirect cost   cost incurred for the benefit of more than one project  
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depreciation   systematic 'writing-off' of the cost assets over their usable life spans  
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straight line depreciation   depreciation that subtracts the same amount of value during every year of the asset's usable life  
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accelerated depreciation   depreciation that reduces the value of an asset more quickly in the earlier part of its usable life  
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present value   value "today" of future cash flow due to a project or acquisition  
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Net present value   Present value minus the costs  
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Payback Period   Length of time it will take a project to recoup its cost  
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Analogous Estimating   top-down estimating. using actual cost of previous similar projects  
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Parametric estimating   Estimating using statistical relationships between historical data and other variable such as square footage in construction.  
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Cost estimates   Prediction of labor, materials, and other expenses.  
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Order of magnitude   Methodology for estimating a project w/o detailed data. used during the formative stages for initial evaluation of a project aka feasibility  
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Project Quality management   Includes all processes required to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken  
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Total Quality management (TQM)   Management strategy to embed awareness of quality in all organization processes  
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Six Sigma   methodology that uses data and statistical analysis to measure and improve a company's operational performance by identifying and eliminating "defects" in manufacturing and service-related processes  
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ISO 9000   Collection of internationally accepted standards concerned with quality management  
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Quality assurance   auditing the quality requirements and the results of quality control measurements to ensure standards are met.  
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Quality control   Measure details in the control phase  
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Pareto Diagrams   Quality control; illustrates which causes of error are most serious  
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Ishikawa Diagram   "fishbone diagram"; quality control tool; illustrate how various causes contribute to an effect  
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Control Charts   Graphic display of results of a process over time; tool used to monitor processes and assure that they remain 'in control'  
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Quality Policy   overall intentions and direction of the organization with regard to quality, expressed by top management  
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Benefit/Cost analysis   comparing estimated tangible and intangible outlays with returns  
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Benchmarking   comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects both in and beyond the performing organization  
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Flowcharting   diagram that shows various elements of a system relate  
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Design of experiments   a statistical method that helps identify which factors might influence specific variables  
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cost of quality   total cost of all quality efforts  
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Communication channels   connections between communicators in a project  
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7 areas of conflict   schedule, project priorities, resources, technical opinions, administrative procedures, cost, personality  
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paralingual communication   tone of voice, inflection, other auditory aspects of communication other than words  
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war room   single room reserved for project related work and meetings, positive effect on communication w/in project team  
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tight matrix   PM structure characterized by co-located team members, enables informal communication  
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information retrieval system   methods for storing and recovering data.  
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information distribution methods   methods for sharing info.  
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