PMP Exam Note 1

• Acquisition implies a cost of resources, and is not necessarily financial.
• Activity attributes include activity codes, predecessor activities, successor activities, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, imposed dates, constraints, and assumptions.
• Adaptive life cycle - Agile, iterations are rapid in nature (2-4 weeks) and are fixed in time and resources
• Additional quality planning tool - Force field analysis, brainstorming, nominal group discussion
• Attribute sampling - method of measuring quality
• Backward pass - For calculating late start and late finish date from the project end date
• Bar Chart - A graphic display of Schedule related information. Also known as Gantt  chart
• Bidder conference - prior to the preparation of bid, proposal. Also known as contractor conference, vendor conference, pre-bid conference
• Code of accounts - A numbering system to uniquely identify each component of WBS
• Colocation - An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another
• Configuration Management System - Subsystem of overall project management system.
• Conformance work - Work is done to compensate for imperfections
• Context diagram - A visual depiction of the product scope showing a business system and how people and other systems/actors interact with it
• Control Account - A mgt. control point where scope, budget, actual cost, and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement
• Control limits / specification limit - ?
• Data date - A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
• Decision tree analysis - ?