5 - Project Scope Management Flashcards

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Completion of the project scope is measured against what document?

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Project management plan

05.0 Project Scope Management

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What includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully?

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Project Scope Management

05.0 Project Scope Management

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What is measured against the product requirements when completed?

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Product scope

05.0 Project Scope Management

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What are the features and functions that characterize a product, service or result?

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Product scope

05.0 Project Scope Management

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What is the work that needs to be accomplished to deliver a product, service or result with the specified features and functions?

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Project scope

05.0 Project Scope Management

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What is the process of creating a scope management plan that documents how the project scope will be defined, validated, and controlled?

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Plan Scope Management

05.1 Plan Scope Management

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What is the process of creating a scope management plan that documents how the project scope will be defined, validated and controlled?

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Plan Scope Management

05.1 Plan Scope Management

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What document helps reduce the risk of project scope creep?

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The Scope Management Plan

05.1 Plan Scope Management

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What plan helps reduce the risk of project scope creep?

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Scope management plan

05.1 Plan Scope Management

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What are the inputs to plan scope management?

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  1. Project management plan
  2. Project charter
  3. Enterprise environmental factors
  4. Organizational process assets

05.1.1. Plan Scope Management: Inputs

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Where does the scope management plan come from?

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It is an output from the Plan scope management process

05.1.3.1 Scope Management Plan

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What is the process for defining and documenting stakeholders needs to meet the project objectives?

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Collect Requirements

05.2 Collect Requirements

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Which process produces the requirements documentation?

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Collect requirements

05.2 Collect Requirements

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What is the process of determining, documenting and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives?

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Collect requirements

05.2 Collect Requirements

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What is used as the foundation for the WBS?

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Requirements

05.2 Collect Requirements

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What identifies stakeholders with an interest or impact on quality?

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The stakeholder register

05.2.1.5 Stakeholder Register

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What depicts the product scope by showing a business system and how people and other systems interact with it?

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Context diagrams

05.2.2.10 Context Diagrams

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What brings together pre qualified stakeholders and subject matter experts to learn about their expectations and attitudes of deliverables?

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Focus groups

05.2.2.2 Focus Groups

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What is a focused session that brings together key cross-functional stakeholders to define product requirements?

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A facilitated workshop

05.2.2.3 Facilitated Workshops

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What is a QFD?

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A quality function deployment facilitated workshop.

05.2.2.3 Facilitated Workshops

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What is a VOC?

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A voice-of-the-customer facilitated workshop

05.2.2.3 Facilitated Workshops

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What is a JAD?

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A joint application design/ development facilitated workshop.

05.2.2.3 Facilitated Workshops

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What is a technique that allows large numbers of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis?

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Affinity diagram

05.2.2.4 Group Creativity Techniques

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What is a technique that utilizes a decision matrix to provide a systematic analytical approach for establishing criteria, such as risk levels, uncertainty, and valuation, to evaluate and rank many ideas?

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Multi-criteria decision analysis

05.2.2.4 Group Creativity Techniques

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What is a technique in which ideas created through individual brainstorming sessions are consolidated into a single map to reflect commonality and differences in understanding, and generate new ideas?

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Idea/mind mapping

05.2.2.4 Group Creativity Techniques

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What is a technique that enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas for further brainstorming or for prioritization?

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Nominal group technique

05.2.2.4 Group Creativity Techniques

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What is a technique used to generate and collect multiple ideas related to project and product requirements?

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Brainstorming

05.2.2.4 Group Creativity Techniques

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What are five group creativity techniques?

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  1. Brainstorming
  2. Nominal Group Techniques
  3. Idea/ Mind Mapping
  4. Affinity Diagram
  5. Multicriteria Decision Analysis

05.2.2.4 Group Creativity Techniques

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What compares actual or planned project practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement?

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Benchmarking

05.2.2.9 Benchmarking

30
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What is benchmarking?

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Comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement.

05.2.2.9 Benchmarking

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What describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project?

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The requirements documentation (package)

05.2.3.1 Requirements Documentation

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What is a table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project?

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The requirements traceability matrix

05.2.3.2 Requirements Traceability Matrix

33
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What is the process of developing a detailed description of the project and product?

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Define Scope

05.3 Define Scope

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What is the process of developing a detailed description of the product and project?

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Define Scope

05.3 Define Scope

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What is the process of developing a detailed description of the project and product?

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Defining scope

05.3 Define Scope

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Which process produces the project scope statement?

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Define scope

05.3 Define Scope

37
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What is a tool and technique that can only be applied to projects that have products as deliverables? (Not services and results.)

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Product Analysis

05.3.2.2 Product Analysis

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What is a technique that creates many different methods as possible for creating a project deliverables and executing the project work?

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Alternatives Generation

05.3.2.3 Alternatives Generation

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What are some methods for alternatives generation?

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  1. Brainstorming
  2. Lateral thinking
  3. Analysis of alternatives
  4. Pair wise comparisons

05.3.2.3 Alternatives Generation

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What six things are contained in the project scope statement?

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  1. Product scope description
  2. Product acceptance criteria
  3. Project deliverables
  4. Project exclusions
  5. Project constraints
  6. Project assumptions

Progressively elaborates the characteristics of the product, service, or result described in the project charter and requirements documentation.

05.3.3.1 Project Scope Statement

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What is a factor that limits the options of the project team?

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A constraint

05.3.3.1 Project Scope Statement

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What documents the entire scope and describes, in detail, the project’s deliverables and the work required to create those deliverables?

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Project Scope Statement

05.3.3.1 Project Scope Statement

43
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What are technical and schedule related factors that are real, true and certain until proven otherwise?

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Assumptions

05.3.3.1 Project Scope Statement

44
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What is the third major project document?

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The project scope statement

05.3.3.1 Project Scope Statement

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What is the document that describes the project scope, major deliverables, and the work required to create the deliverables in detail?

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The project scope statement

05.3.3.1 Project Scope Statement

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What is the process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components?

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Create WBS

05.4 Create WBS

47
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What is the lowest level of detail in the WBS?

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Work package

05.4 Create WBS

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What is the process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components?

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Create WBS

05.4 Create WBS

49
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What is the lowest level of detail in a WBS?

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A work package

05.4 Create WBS

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What is a deliverable-oriented document that displays a hiearchial decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team.

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The work breakdown structure

05.4 Create WBS

51
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What is the lowest level of detail in the WBS?

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Work package

05.4 Create WBS

52
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What is the technique of sub-dividing higher-level objectives and deliverables into work packages, which are small enough pieces of work that can be effectively estimated?

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Decomposition

05.4.2.1 Decomposition

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What is a technique used for dividing and subdividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller, more manageable parts?

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Decomposition

05.4.2.1 Decomposition

54
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In what two processes do we use the tool and technique of decomposition?

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  1. Create WBS
  2. Define Activities
  3. 4.2.1 Decomposition
  4. 2.2.1 Decomposition
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What is the form of progressive elaboration planning where work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail and future work is planned at a higher level of the WBS?

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Rolling Wave Planning

05.4.2.2 Expert Judgment

56
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What document represents the subdivision of project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components?

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A work breakdown structure

05.4.3. Create WBS: Outputs

57
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Where does the scope baseline come from?

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  1. The Project Scope Statement
  2. The WBS
  3. The WBS Dictionary

05.4.3.1 Scope Baseline

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What three things make up a scope baseline?

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  1. Project Scope Statement
  2. WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)
  3. WBS Dictionary

The scope baseline is the approved version of a scope statement, work breakdown structure (WBS), and its associated WBS dictionary, that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison. It is a component of the project management plan.

05.4.3.1 Scope Baseline

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Where does the scope baseline come from?

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The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

05.4.3.1 Scope Baseline

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What is the approved version of the scope statement, work breakdown structure and its associated WBS dictionary, which is used for comparison purposes during project execution?

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Scope baseline

05.4.3.1 Scope Baseline

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What is an output from the “Create WBS process” that contains the approved version of the scope statement, work breakdown structure, and its associated WBS dictionary?

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Scope baseline

05.4.3.1 Scope Baseline

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How does the Validate Scope process differ from the Control Quality process?

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Validate Scope is concerned with acceptance of the deliverables, while quality control is concerned with correctness of the deliverables and meeting the quality requirements specified for the deliverables. Control Quality is generally performed before Validate Scope, although the two processes may be performed in parallel.

05.5 Validate Scope

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How are the verified deliverables obtained from the Control Quality process are reviewed?

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With the customer or sponsor to ensure that they are completed satisfactorily and have received formal acceptance of the deliverables by the customer or sponsor.

05.5 Validate Scope

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What is the process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables?

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Validate Scope

05.5 Validate Scope

65
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What is the process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables?

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Validate Scope

05.5 Validate Scope

66
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What encompasses activities such as measuring, examining, and validating to determine whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria?

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Inspection

05.5.2.1 Inspection

67
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What is scope creep?

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It is the uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time, cost, and resources.

05.6 Control Scope

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What is the process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?

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Control Scope

05.6 Control Scope

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What are performance measurements used to asses the degree of variation from the original scope baseline?

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Variance Analysis

05.6.2.1 Variance Analysis