This is primarily concerned with what is, and what is not, included in the project.
What is scope management?
100
This schedule network tool uses three different time estimates per activity: best case, most likely, and worst case.
What is Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)?
100
The type of contract where the contractor is reimbursed for the time and all equipment used in fulfilling the contract terms.
What is a Time and Materials contract?
100
The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements.
What is quality?
200
Someone who champions a project, and usually serves as a guide to the project manager.
What is a project sponsor?
200
This documents subdivides the project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components. Each descending level represents more detail about the project work.
What is the Work Breakdown Structure?
200
This is the longest path through the network, and the shortest time the project can be completed.
What is the Critical Path?
200
Money set aside for work or equipment that cannot be foreseen during estimating.
What is contingency (or management reserve)?
200
Considered the father of modern U.S. quality assurance, even though his ideas were first embraced by the Japanese.
Who is Edwards Deming?
300
This document spells out the project's main points, and ties the project to the organization's mission.
What is a project charter?
300
This is the lowest level of the WBS, and can be scheduled, cost-estimated, monitored, and controlled.
What is a Work Package?
300
This is the relationship where Activity A and Activity B must finish together, regardless of when they start.
What is a finish-finish relationship?
300
Type of contract where the contractor needs to provide a single price at the outset that will not change over the contract, unless terms change.
What is a Firm Fixed Price Contract?
300
An approach to quality that proposes that the best measure of quality is consistency (low standard deviation) around the ideal specification. Experts are considered to be Black Belts.
What is Six Sigma Quality Control?
400
This plan defines how the project is executed, monitored and controlled, and closed.
What is the Project Management Plan? (Or Project Plan?)
400
When the scope grows over the life of the project, because of poor initial planning, or other elements that might not have been foreseen.
What is scope creep?
400
This is a significant moment in the project, with zero duration.
What is a milestone?
400
When expenditures are made, but not yet recorded in the corporate accounting records.
What is a "bow wave" of charges (or unrecorded charges)?
400
Conformance to customer requirements by doing the right things right the first time.
What is quality, or maximized efficiency and effectiveness?
500
This graph shows the behavior of critical elements in a project, and can show patterns or relationships you may not otherwise notice.
What is a Behavior Over Time graph?
500
The person ultimately responsible for controlling scope and changes from the contractor side.
Who is the Project Manager?
500
This law says that as you add resources to complete work, at some point, you start achieving less and less work per resource.
What is the Law of Diminishing Returns?
500
A contract type where the fee does not change, but where costs ththe contractor incurs are paid by the client.
What is a "Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract?"
500
A measure of doing things wrong. An expression of NOT following ideal production or process requirements.