PMP Exam Cram™ 2, Second Edition

Chapter 3. The Project Planning Process Group

Terms you’ll need to understand:

✓	Activity
✓	Activity attributes
✓	Activity list
✓	Activity on arrow diagram (AOA)
✓	Activity on node diagram (AON)
✓	Activity sequence
✓	Analogous estimating
✓	Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
✓	Bottom-up estimating
✓	Critical path
✓	Dependency
✓	Milestone list
✓	Network diagram
✓	Parametric estimating
✓	Precedence diagramming method (PDM)
✓	Project management methodology
✓	Project management plan
✓	Project management processes
✓	Project scope
✓	Resource breakdown structure
✓	Rolling wave planning
✓	Slack
✓	Three-point estimates
✓	WBS dictionary
✓	Work breakdown structure (WBS)

Techniques and concepts you’ll need to master:

✓	General project planning steps
✓	The importance of the WBS
✓	The relationships between scope, activities, ...