Ch 3 Flashcards
I belief that may or may not be true within a project.
Assumption
A document request to add to or remove from the project scope.
Change request
The project management process group that contains the activities to close out a project and project contracts.
Closing process group
A condition, rule, or procedure that restricts a project managers options.
Constraint
Brings project work back into alignment with the project plan. May also address a process that is producing errors.
Corrective action
The aggregation of the project deliverables and their associated costs. The difference between the cost estimates and the actual cost of the project identifies the cost variance.
Cost baseline
The activity to repair a defect within the project.
Defect repair
Describes the large progression of project management duties; plan-do-check-act cycle.
Deming’s PDCA Cycle
Any external or internal organizational factors that can affect project success. Includes culture, organizational structure, resources and commercial databases the project will use, market conditions, and your project management software.
Enterprise environmental factors
The project management process group that provides the activities to carry out the project management plan to complete the project work.
Executing process group
The project management process group that allows a project to be chartered and authorized.
Initiating process group
A record of the issue, its characteristics, the issue owner, and a target date for resolving the issue.
Issue log
The project manager must, according to enterprise environmental factors, manage the project team to ensure that they are completing their work assignments with quality and according to plan.
Manage project team
This process is based on what the stakeholders expect from the project and on project communication from the project manager.
Manage stakeholder expectations
Oversees, measures, and tracks project performance.
Monitoring and controlling process group
The methodology and organization used performance business, as well as the guidelines, procedures, and knowledge bases, such as the lessons learned documentation from past projects and any relevant hysterical information.
Organizational process assets
The project management process group that creates the project management plan to execute, monitor and control, and close the project.
Planning process group
A risk – related action that avoid risks within the project. A work around to a problem within your project is an example.
Preventative action
A set of integrated activities to create a product, result, or service. Project management processes allow the project to move toward
completion.
Process
A process that is unique to the type of work creating the product of the project. This can also be unique to the performance organization of the project.
Product process
The calendar that documents when the project work occur.
Project calendar
A document that comes from outside of the project boundaries and authorizes the existence of a project.
Project charter
The output of the project.
Project deliverable
The project scope defines the project, the project deliverables, product requirements, project boundaries, acceptance procedures, and scope control.
Project scope statement
The calendar that documents which project resources are available for the project work.
Resource calendar
A central repository of the project risks and their attributes.
Risk register
An uncertain event or condition that can have a negative or positive impact on the project.
Risk
Iterations of planning throughout the project life cycle.
Rolling wave planning
The expected timeline of the project. The difference between the plan schedule and the experience schedule reveals schedule variance within the project.
Schedule baseline
The sum of the project deliverables. The project scope statement, the WBS, and the WBS dictionary.
Scope baseline
A person or group that is affected by the project or the may affect the group. They can be positive, negative, or neutral and their attitude toward the project success.
Stakeholder
The project manager and project team aims to keep the project stakeholders engaged and involved in the project to ensure that decisions, approvals, and communications are maintained as defined in the stakeholder management plan and the stakeholder management strategy.
Stakeholder engagement
A document that defines every identified element of the work breakdown study.
WBS dictionary
A breakdown of the project scope.
Work breakdown structure (WBS)
An immediate response to a negative risk within the project. This is an example of a corrective action.
Work – around
