Free PMP Terms and Definitions
Understanding common project management terms can be a challenge for all project managers. To help you understand those terms and definitions Crosswind Project Management has created a free to use glossary to help in your pmp training. In this page you will find the terms and definitions associated within the component areas of framework to get a better understanding of how this process works and relates to project management.
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Affinity Diagram | A tool used to gather ideas and organize them into groupings so they can be reviewed and analyzed; typically used for ideas generated from brainstorming sessions |
| Affinity Grouping | The process to group similar items into the same category. |
| Context Diagrams | A graphical representation of the scope of a business system that includes processes, equipment, and computer systems and indicates the manner in which people and other systems interact with the business system |
| Decomposition | The process of breaking down the work of the project into smaller, more controllable components |
| Deliverable | Any product, result, or service that must be generated to complete a process, phase, or project |
| Facilitated Workshop | A focused session involving cross-functional stakeholders and a designated leader that is conducted to achieve a specific goal, such as the creation of project requirements |
| Features | The characteristics that the user desires built into a product |
| Interviews | A focused session involving individual stakeholders and a designated leader that is conducted to elicit specific information |
| Mind-Mapping | A technique used to integrate ideas created through individual brainstorming sessions into a single map in order to highlight similarities and differences in understanding and generate new ideas. |
| MoSCoW | A model for prioritization that categorizes features as Must Have, Should Have, Could Have, Won’t Have [we use KANO instead] |
| Nominal Group Technique | A technique, effected by a voting process, that is used to prioritize ideas by utility for further brainstorming |
| Planning Package | A WBS component that has no detailed scheduled activities even though it is known to have work content |
| Plurality | The votes of the largest block in a group when a majority is not required, typically used to denote agreement with a decision |
| Product Scope | The features and functions of a project's product, service, or result |
| Project Requirements | The conditions or capabilities that a product, service, or outcome should preform when complete. |
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Project Scope | The work executed to deliver a product, service, or result that satisfies the specified features and functions |
| Project Scope Management | The processes required to ensure that all the work needed to complete the project, and only that work, is included in the project |
| Project Scope Statement | The document that describes the major deliverables, assumptions, constraints, and scope of the project |
| Questionnaires | Written surveys designed to quickly gather information from a large number of respondents. |
| Requirement | A condition or capability that must be made available through a product, service, or result in order to fulfill a contract or formal specification |
| Requirements Documentation | A document that describes requirements for creating a product or a feature of the product |
| Requirements Management Plan | The document, part of the project or program management plan, used to describe the evaluation, recording, and administration of project requirements |
| Requirements Traceability Matrix | A graphical representation that illustrates the relationships between the origins of the product requirements to the deliverables that fulfill the requirements |
| Scope | The products, services, and results expected to be provided by the project |
| Scope Baseline | The authorized scope statement, WBS, and WBS dictionary that contain only those modifications authorized through a formal change control process; used as a basis for comparison |
| Scope Management Plan | The document, part of the project or program management plan, used to the manner in which the project scope will be delineated, elaborated, monitored, controlled, and authenticated |
| Traceability | The practice of defining the relationships between different artifacts (e.g., documents, models, and source code) |
| WBS Dictionary | A document that itemizes deliverable, activity, and scheduling information for each WBS component |
| Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) | A document used in traditional project management that itemizes the work decomposed from the project scope statement |
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