It is a detailed outline of different process groups and Project Management terms commonly used and understood in PMI exams

1. Chapter Two Framework 

EXPERT JUDGMENT


MEETINGS


WORK PERFORMANCE DATA, INFORMATION, AND
REPORTS


PROJECT SELECTION
ECONOMIC MEASURES


PROJECT ROLES
PROJECT MANAGER


SPONSOR/INITIATOR


PRODUCT MANAGER


PROJECT TEAM


STAKEHOLDERS


FUNCTIONAL/RESOURCE MANAGER


PROGRAM MANAGER


PORTFOLIO MANAGER
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS


ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE


CHANGE
PROJECT CHANGE


TRANSITIONAL CHANGE


ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
 Definition of a project
 

Stakeholders
 Project management
• Predictive
• Agile
• Hybrid
 Program management
 

Portfolio management
 

Organizational project management (OPM)
 

Project management office
 (PMO)
• 

Supportive
• 

Controlling
• 

Directive
 

Operational work
 

Governance
 

Organizational structure
• Functional
• 

Project-oriented
• 

Matrix
 Decision making
 

Communication
 

Interpersonal & team skills
 

Estimating
 

PMIS
 

Expert judgment
 

Meetings
 

Work performance data, information, and reports
 

Project selection
 

Economic measures
 

Project roles
 

Project manager
 

Sponsor/initiator
 

Product manager
 

Project team
 

Stakeholders
 

Functional/resource manager
 

Program manager
 

Portfolio manager
 

Environmental factors
 Organizational process assets
• 

Processes, procedures, and policies
• 

Organizational knowledge repositories
• 

Enterprise environmental factors
 

Assumption log
 Constraints
 

Data gathering
 

Data analysis
 

Decision making
 

Communication
 

Interpersonal & team skills
 

Estimating
 

PMIS

2. Chapter Three Process and Domains

 What is done during each of the project management process groups
• 

Initiating
• Planning
• Executing
• Monitoring and controlling
• closing
 

ECO Domains
• 

People
• 

Process
• 

Business Environment
 What you should do during each of the project management process groups
 

What is a project life cycle
 

What is a development life cycle
 

Plan-driven
 

Change-driven

3. Chapter Four INTEGRATION

 Integration management process
 Types of knowledge
• Tacit
• Explicit
 Integrated change control
 Process for making changes
 Project management plan
• Project life cycle
• Development approach
• Management Reviews
• Tailoring
• Individual management plans
• Baselines
• Requirements management plan
• Change management plan
 Project Charter
 Knowledge Management
 Project documents
 Assumption Log
 Change requests
 Corrective action
 Preventive action
 Defect repair
 Constraints and assumptions
 Configuration management system
 Change control system
 Change control board
 Work authorization system
 Agile change management
 Kickoff meeting

4. Chapter Five SCOPE

 Product scope
 

Project scope
 

Scope management process
 

Scope management plan
 

Requirements management plan
 

Data-gathering techniques
• 

Brainstorming
• 

Interviews
• 

Feature workshops
• 

Epics, feature, user stories,
tasks
• 

Focus groups
• 

Questionnaires and surveys
• 

Benchmarking
 

Requirements documentation
 

Project scope statement
• Work breakdown structure
(WBS)
• 

Decomposition
• 

Control account
• 

Work package
• Activity
• How to create a WBS
• Benefits of using a WBS
• Uses for a WBS
 WBS dictionary
 

Product backlog
 

Product roadmap
 

Time boxing
 

Scope baseline
 Group Decision Making
• 

Voting
• 

Multicriteria decision analysis
 

Data representation
• 

Affinity diagrams
• 

Mind maps
 

Requirements categories
• 

Business
• 

Stakeholder
• 

Solution
• 

Quality
• 

Technical
 

Interpersonal and team skills
• 

Nominal group technique
• 

Observation
• 

Facilitation
• 

Consensus
• 

User stories
 

Context diagrams
 

Prototypes
 

Acceptance criteria
 

Requirements traceability matrix
 

Product analysis
 

Deliverables
• 

Verified
• 

Accepted

5. Chapter Six SCHEDULE

 Schedule management process
 

Schedule baseline
Schedule compression
• 

Crashing
• 

Fast tracking
 

Activity list
 

Network diagram
 

Dependencies
• 

Mandatory
• 

Discretionary
• 

External
• 

Internal
 Precedence diagramming method
(PDM)
 

Critical path
 

Relative sizing
 

Story points
 

Float (Schedule flexibility)
• 

Total float
• 

Free float
• 

Project float
 Three-point estimating
• 

Beta distribution
• 

Triangular distribution
 

Monte Carlo analvsis
 

Bar charts
 Schedule model
 

Schedule management plan
 

Critical path method
 

Near-critical path
 

Leads and lags
 

Milestones, milestone list, and charts
 

Reserve analysis
 

Padding
 

Analogous estimating
 

Parametric estimating
 

Bottom-up estimating
 

Heuristics
 

Activity attributes
 

Rolling wave planning
 

Progressive elaboration
 Alternatives analysis
 

Affinity estimating
 

T-shirt sizing
Planning poker
 

Resource optimization
• 

Resource leveling
• 

Resource smoothing
 

Velocity
 

Agile release planning
 

Cumulative flow diagrams
 

Reestimating

6. Chapter Seven COST

 Cost management process
 

Earned value analysis
• 

PV
• EV
• AC
• CPI
• SPI
• BAC
• EAC
• ETC
• VAC
• CV
• 

SV
• 

TCPI
 

Cost baseline
 

Cost budget
 

Performance measurement baseline
 Three-point estimating
 

Analogous estimating
 

Bottom-up estimating
 Parametric estimating
 

Inputs to estimating costs
 

Cost management plan
 

Rough order of magnitude
(ROM) estimate
 

Definitive estimate
 

Budget estimate
 

Reserve analysis
 

Contingency reserves
 

Management reserves
 

Variable/fixed costs
 

Direct/indirect costs
 

Earned value analysis
 

Control thresholds
 

Progress reporting

7. Chapter Eight QUALITY

 Quality management process
 

Definition of quality
 

Gold plating
 

Prevention over inspection
 

Continuous improvement
 

Just in time (JIT)
 

Responsibility for quality
 

Interviews, brainstorming, and
benchmarking
 

Cost-benefit analysis
 

Impact of poor quality
 

Cost of quality
 

Costs of conformance and
nonconformance
 

Marginal analysis
 

Logical data models
 

Flowcharts
 

Test and inspection planning
 

Checklists
 

Quality metrics
 

Quality management plan
 

Cause-and-effect diagrams
 

Histograms
 

Pareto charts
 

Scatter diagrams
 

Document analysis
 

Alternatives analysis
 

Design of experiments
 

Process analysis
 

Root cause analysis
 

Failure analysis
 

Multicriteria decision analysis
 

Affinity diagrams
 

Audits
 

Design for X
 

Problem-solving
 

Test and evaluation documents
 

Quality reports
 Mutual exclusivity
 

Probability
 

Normal distribution
 

Statistical independence
 

Standard deviation
 

3 or 6 sigma
 

Check sheets
 

Statistical sampling
 

Questionnaires and surveys
 

Performance reviews
 

Inspection
 

Control charts
• Assignable cause/ special
cause variation
• 

Control limits
• 

Mean
• 

Specification limits
• 

Out of control
• 

Rule of seven

8. Chapter Nine RESOURCES
 Resource management process
 

Resource responsibilities for project
managers
 

Resource management plan
 

Recognition and reward system
 

Team building
 

Conflict resolution techniques
 

Coaching
 Key performance indicators
 

Tracking team performance
• Burn down chart
• 

Bum up chart
 Issue log
 

Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
 

RACI chart
 

Organizational breakdown structure
 

Resource breakdown structure
 

Resource histogram
 

Team charter
 

Motivation
 Training needs of team members
 
Team performance assessment
 

Management and leadership styles
 

Powers of the project manager
 

Emotional intelligence
 

Influencing
 

Problem-solving method
 

Sources of conflict
 

Conflict resolution techniques
 

Pre assignment
 

Negotiation
 

Multi criteria decision analysis
 

Colocation
 

Virtual teams
 

Communications technology
 

Tuckman ladder
 

Lean
 

Kaizen
 

Just in time (JIT)

9. Chapter Ten COMMUNICATION
  

Communications management process
 

Communications management plan
 

Flow of communication
 

Communication types Communication models
 

Communications technology
 

Communication methods
• 

Interactive communication
• 

Push communication
• Pull communication
 

Meetings
 

Communication channels
 

Project Reporting
• 
What should be reported
• 

Types of reports
• 

Status report
• 

Progress report
• 

Trend report
• 

Forecasting report
• 

Variance report
• 

Earned value report
• 

Progress metrics
• 

Retrospective findings
• 

Lessons learned
 

Communication blockers
 

Knowledge sharing
• 

Information radiators

10. Chapter Eleven RISK

 Definition of risk management
 Risk response strategies
 Threats and opportunities
 Uncertainties
• Spikes
• Fast Failure
 Risk factors
 Risk appetite
 Risk threshold
 Residual averse
 Inputs to risk management
 Risk register
 Risk management process
 Risk report
 Risk categories
 Risk breakdown structure
 Overall Project risk
 Types of risk
 Probability and impact matrix
• Watch list
• Variance and trend analysis
 Risk response strategies
• Avoid
• Mitigate
• Transfer
• Exploit
• Share
• Enhance
• Accept
• Escalate
 Residual risks
 Contingency plans
 Fallback plans
 Risk owner
 Secondary risks
 Risk trigger
 Workarounds
 Reserve analysis
 Risk reviews and audits
 Simulation
 Checklist analysis
 SWOT analysis
 Pre-mortems
 Risk backlog
 Technical performance
analysis
 Retrospectives
 Risk burn down charts

11. Chapter Twelve PROCUREMENT

 Procurement management process
 

Procurement management plan
 

Procurement strategy
 

Types of agreements
 

Agile contracts
 

Contract types
 

Fixed-price
 

Time and material
 

Cost-reimbursable
 

Advantages/disadvantages of each
contract type
 

Customized contracts
 

Contract change control system
 

Termination
 

Bid documents
 

Make-or-buy analysis
 

Source selection criteria
 

Non competetive forms of procurement
 

Types of procurement SOW
 

Fixed-price work packages
 

Closed procurements
 

Bidder conferences
 

Proposal evaluation
 

Risk and contract type
 

Make-or-buy decisions
 

Weighting system
 

Independent cost estimates
 

Incentives
 

Special provisions
 

Standard contract
 

Terms and conditions
 

Change requests
 

Breach Waivers
 

Claims
 

Product validation
 

Procurement conflicts
 

Procurement audit
 

Formal acceptance
 

Records management system
 

Privity
 Centralized/decentralized
contracting
 

Price
 

Profit
 

Cost
 

Target price
 

Sharing ratio
 

Ceiling price
 

Letter of intent
 

Presentations
 

Nondisclosure agreement
 

What makes a legal contract
 

Force majeure

12. Chapter Thirteen STAKEHOLDERS
  Stakeholder definition
 

Stakeholder management process
 

Stakeholder involvement
 

Stakeholder analysis
 

Stakeholder register
 

Stakeholder expectations
 

Stakeholder engagement
 

Stakeholder engagement plan
 

Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
 

Stakes
 

Personas
 Retrospectives