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Project Management (CAPM)

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show 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   show
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show 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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show One responsible for managing the project  
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show Oversees a project in a functional organization. Some decision making ability but limited.  
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show Oversees a project. Limited or no decision making capabilities  
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Life Cycle   show
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show Often called: Phase exits, stage gates or kill points  
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show Provides financial resources for project  
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Performing Organization   show
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Customer   show
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show Consists of project manager, project management team and others who are working together to complete the project.  
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show Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, Closing  
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Inputs   show
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show Mechanisms applied to inputs  
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show Documents or items that are produced  
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show Management of: Scope, Time, Cost, Human Resource, Communications, Risk, Integration, Quality and Procurement  
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show Processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated.  
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show Collection of formal documented procedures, tracking systems, archives and approval levels for reviewing and authorizing changes.  
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Integrated Change Control   show
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show Identified during execution, handled by integrated change control.  
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show 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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show Any structured approach to guide a project team in plan development  
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show 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   show
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show A formal, approved document used to manage project execution. Often revised.  
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show Difference between est. cost and actual cost.  
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show Expected additional cost from now to end  
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Schedule Variance (SV)   show
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Variance at Completion (VC)   show
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Configuration Management   show
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show Tools that help assess whether there have been variances from plan that require corrective action.  
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Project Scope Management   show
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show Representation of the scope of the project that shows component deliverables broken down to the most basic level.  
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show Market demand, Business need, Customer request, technological advance, legal requirement.  
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Product description   show
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Strategic Plan   show
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Project Selection Criteria   show
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Product analysis   show
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Benefit/cost analysis   show
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Scope Statement   show
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show How the project scope will be controlled  
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show second of the core processes of planning process group. subdividing deliverables  
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show subdividing major components into smaller manageable ones  
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show 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)   show
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Critical Path Method (CPM)   show
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show The soonest a task can begin or end  
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show Used to calculate Early Start/Early Finish  
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show Latest a task can begin of end without effecting the project duration  
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Backward Pass   show
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show Difference between the amount of time required for a task and the amount available for it  
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show 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   show
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show An activity is scheduled to start sooner than its dependency  
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Lag   show
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show Amount of time an activity can be delayed without effecting the Early Start of its successor  
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show Amount of time an activity can be delayed without effecting the project completion date  
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show Amount of time a project can be delayed without delaying an externally imposed project completion date  
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Schedule Shortening techniques   show
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show 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)   show
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PV (Planned Value)   show
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show Value of work performed expressed in terms of PV (BAC).  
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show Amount spent on the work performed to-date  
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show 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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show A comparison of the budgeted cost of work performed with actual cost. EV-AC=?  
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SPI (Schedule Performance Index)   show
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show 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   show
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show Projected total cost of project from this point in the project. AC+ETC=?  
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show Projection of how much more will be spent from this point.(EAC-AC)  
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show Cost that changes with the amount of work/production  
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Fixed Cost   show
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show cost attributable to the project work  
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show cost incurred for the benefit of more than one project  
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show systematic 'writing-off' of the cost assets over their usable life spans  
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straight line depreciation   show
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show depreciation that reduces the value of an asset more quickly in the earlier part of its usable life  
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present value   show
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show Present value minus the costs  
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show Length of time it will take a project to recoup its cost  
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show top-down estimating. using actual cost of previous similar projects  
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Parametric estimating   show
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show Prediction of labor, materials, and other expenses.  
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show 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   show
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Total Quality management (TQM)   show
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Six Sigma   show
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ISO 9000   show
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show auditing the quality requirements and the results of quality control measurements to ensure standards are met.  
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Quality control   show
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show Quality control; illustrates which causes of error are most serious  
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Ishikawa Diagram   show
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show 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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show overall intentions and direction of the organization with regard to quality, expressed by top management  
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Benefit/Cost analysis   show
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show comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects both in and beyond the performing organization  
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show diagram that shows various elements of a system relate  
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show a statistical method that helps identify which factors might influence specific variables  
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show total cost of all quality efforts  
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show connections between communicators in a project  
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7 areas of conflict   show
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show tone of voice, inflection, other auditory aspects of communication other than words  
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war room   show
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show PM structure characterized by co-located team members, enables informal communication  
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show methods for storing and recovering data.  
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information distribution methods   show
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