PMI worships documents. Any phrase containing "documented", "formal" or ending in "plan / register / charter / case / report" is asking about a PAPER, not an activity. First question: which paper?
"Organizational process assets" — start at the end: assets (stuff) → process (how-we-work) → organizational (the company's). = "the company's existing how-we-do-things stuff."
authorize=allow · validate=check it's what the customer wanted · verify=check it's built right · facilitate=help happen · elaborate=add detail as you learn · expedite=hurry it up · procure=buy
Before the project exists → business case, benefits plan, charter. While running → management plans, work data, change control. Measuring after → benefits realization, lessons learned, final report.
Project = one endeavor · Program = related projects managed together · Portfolio = ALL the company's bets. If two options differ only in these words, ask: one thing, a family of things, or everything?
data vs information (raw vs analyzed) · quality vs grade (meets requirements vs feature level) · validate vs verify (customer vs spec) · risk vs issue (might happen vs already happening) · crashing vs fast-tracking (add people vs overlap tasks)
No grading here. Every card in this course, in order, with the answer showing. Read it twice. Then go to Cards to be tested. You remember better what you have already seen.
Handwrite the hardest 10% on the iPad. Writing by hand helps it stick. Photograph the page and send it to Claude. Ask for DRILL cards. Paste the block below. The cards join the deck for good. They work like every other card.
Format: Deck | question | answer | plain-English. The last part is optional.
A wrong card comes back this session. Then after 1 day. Then after 3 days. Get it right 3 times in a row, days apart. Then it counts as known. A card untouched for 7+ days comes back as a COLD test. Cold = no warm-up, the only honest check.
CRAM: use when the exam is close. Every card not yet known, most-missed first, no waiting. Crammed cards still go back into the DUE TODAY queue after.
DUE TODAY: use when the exam is far. Only cards due today, plus new ones. Wrong ones first, then cold ones, then new ones. 20–30 min a day covers every course.
ONE SHEET = one page with the 20% that matters, in your words. It proves you know the subject. You can teach from it. Ask Claude to make it when a deck hits 90% known cold.
Handwrite only the hardest 10%: formulas, diagrams, what will not stick. Once. Writing by hand helps it stick. Use memory tricks (mnemonics) only after plain repeats have failed.