Flashcards: PMP Glossary - A
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mwschaeffner on December 22, 2009
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Glossary of "A" terms from "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge", 4th edition
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PMP Study Group from PMPCert Class
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 acceptance criteria | Those criteria, including performance requirements and essential conditions, which must be met before project deliverables are accepted. |
| acquire project team | The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments. |
| activity | A component 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. Includes activity codes, predecessor activities, successor activities, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, imposed dates, constraints, and assumptions. |
| activity code | One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports. |
| activity duration | The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity. |
| activity identifier | A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other activities. Typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram. |
| 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. |
| actual cost/actual cost of work performed | Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. It can be direct labor hours alone, direct costs alone, or all costs including indirect costs. |
| 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 schedule activity is complete. |
| administer procurements | The process of managing procurement relationships, monitoring contract performance, and making changes and corrections as needed. |
| analogous estimating | An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters, such as scope, cost, budget, and duration or measures of scale such as size, weight, and complexity from a previous, similar activity as the basis for estimating the same parameter or measure for a future activity. |
| application area | A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects, but are not needed or present in all projects. They are usually defined in terms of either the product, the type of customer, or the industry sector. |
| approved change request | A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved. |
| assumption | A factor that, for planning purposes, is considered to be true, real, or certain without proof or demonstration. |
| assumptions analysis | A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy, inconsistency, or incompleteness of assumptions. |
| authority | The right to apply project resources, expend funds, make decisions, or give approvals. |