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What is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result?
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What is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements?
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What is the grouping of projects and programs that can also include other project-related activities and responsibilities?
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What term describes a situation where the project team can't define the scope?
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What is the most common term for adding features or capabilities incrementally that were not part of the original scope?
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What term describes a drastic change in project scope?
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What are some reasons projects are challenging, including uncharted territory and multiple expectations?
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What is the process of executing the tasks in the project's scope to create MOV?
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What are the three constraints that include resources, schedule, and scope?
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What are the five phases of the project lifecycle?
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What model starts with the end result and models the gap between the desired state and present state?
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What is the art of leading from behind, including reasons to follow such as fear of retribution and faith in the leader?
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What video emphasizes giving control and creating leaders by providing intent and psychological ownership?
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What are the five practices of exemplary leadership?
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What are Bennis' Four Competencies of leadership?
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What involves vision, dream, communicate, and extraordinary focus of commitment?
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What requires leaders to communicate their vision and create its meaning for them?
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What involves reliability, constancy, and focus?
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What involves knowing one's skills and deploying them effectively?
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Who is a person or group with an interest in and an influence on project outcomes and deliverables?
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What is the process of handling people with an interest in the project's success, including conflict mitigation and ensuring alignment of goals?
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What is a condition needed by a stakeholder to solve a problem or achieve an objective?
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What are the activities involved in developing requirements?
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What are some tips for gathering requirements effectively?
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What does the acronym MoSCoW stand for in project management?
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What is the process of identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and mitigating potential threats of uncertainties that may affect the achievement of project objectives?
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What is the framework for managing risks in a project?
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What are some common risk management responses?
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What is an uncertain event that could negatively impact project critical success factors if it occurs?
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What is an active problem that could impact the project critical success factors and is a risk that has already happened?
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What is a limit that must be planned around in a project?
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What is a factor considered to be true, real, or certain in a project?
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What is an external event that must occur for the project to accomplish its objectives?
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What is a discrepancy between what is and what should be, which can become risks if not identified and corrected?
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What are the two ways to build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?
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What are separate, subordinate tasks that, when accomplished, complete a summary task, typically sized between 8 to 80 hours?
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How do you know if a work package is completed and was done correctly?
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What is the longest path through the network period with no slack, where all tasks must be completed at set times?
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What chart shows the WBS on the left and a calendar on the right, essentially a WBS with a schedule next to it?
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What is the sum of tasks in the WBS, representing the longest effort time?
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What is the time that is in the middle, less than effort but more than partition, considered more realistic?
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What is the shortest time, where tasks are partitionable with initial resources, e.g., 12 hours with 4 team members equals 3 hours?
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What are the key inputs for building a project schedule?
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What are the absolute minimum requirements for scheduling in project management?
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What are project metrics and what should they focus on?
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What must a good project metric be?
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What should project measurement systems allow the team to do?
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What are the key concepts of earned value management?
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What is the planned or budgeted cost of work scheduled for an activity or component of the WBS?
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What is the total budget for a project, also known as the total cumulative planned value?
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What is the actual cost incurred for completing an activity or component of the WBS?
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What is a performance measurement that tells us how much of the budget we really should have spent for the work that was completed?
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What is the importance of a project budget?
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What are the principles of an effective budget?
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What are the key aspects of managing project changes?
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What are the seven key principles for effective project change control?
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What are the fundamentals of managing project change?
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What can cause unplanned scope changes in a project?
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What are some techniques for minimizing project change?
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What are some challenges in project change control?
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What are the basics of managing project deliverables?
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What should you think of when considering change control in a project?
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What should you think of when considering configuration management in a project?
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What is the STAR: Configuration Management Plan focused on?
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What are some common pitfalls even when following a configuration management plan?
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What are the three levels of triple constraints?
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What are the cost, schedule, and quality goals at the project level?
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What are some strategies at the business case level?
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What are some strategies at the enterprise level?
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How do decision rights change with each level of escalation or scope of balancing tools?
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What is the transfer of responsibility from one individual or team to another, often with the phrase 'Good luck. Figure it out'?
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What encompasses a broader scope and involves the transfer of overall responsibility for a task, project, or even an entire operation?
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What are the three suggested principles for planning the closure of a project?
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What are some things that can negatively impact your ability to close a project?
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What gives us the ability to calculate schedules, calculate budgets, forecast resource requirements, measure performance, estimate risk probabilities?
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What is the application of the science to achieve your goals in project management?
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What is the process for choosing which projects to pursue and regularly monitoring them?
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What is a collection of diverse projects managed collectively to align with the organization's strategy and overall plan to achieve competitive advantage?
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What are the benefits of portfolio management?
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What is the conscious integration of processes, technology, or organization structure, and people in order to align strategy with the execution of projects?
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What are the three tiers of EPM?
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What are the four enabling components of EPM?
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What are the benefits of formalizing project management?
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What are the practices used to define, plan, and control a single project?
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What can either refer to a group of projects that support a related goal, or a group of related projects managed together within an organization?
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What is a systematic approach to selecting, monitoring, and canceling projects, linking the limited resources of the firm to its strategic objectives?
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What are the four components of EPM?
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What is the process of establishing consistent EPM processes?
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What capabilities should technology have to enable EPM processes?
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What is the role of people in delivering projects?
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What is the role of the project office in supporting project management?
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