CH2 Flashcards

1
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________ is The output of the project.

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Product

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___________ is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result

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Project

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_________ is the range, details, or a boundary of a term it is attached to (e.g., project scope, product scope).

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Scope

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_____________ are Features and functions that characterize a product, service, or result.

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Product Scope

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_________ is the work required/performed to create a product, service, or result with the specified features and functions in the product scope

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Project Scope

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6
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_________ are e.g., quality, management, etc.

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Requirements

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7
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______________ is the project scope description, project deliverables, acceptance criteria, project exclusions, project constraints, project assumptions

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Project Scope Statement

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8
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__________ 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

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9
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T/F: Managing the project scope is primarily concerned with defining and controlling what is and is not included in the project.

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True.

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10
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_________________ process is used to create a scope management plan that documents how the project and product scope will be defined, validated, and controlled.

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Plan scope management

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The key benefit of the _________ process is to provide guidance and direction on how scope will be managed throughout the project.

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Plan Scope Management

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The ___________ documents the project purpose, high-level project description, assumptions, constraints, and high-level requirements that the project is intended to satisfy.

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project charter

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13
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_________________ indicates the way the project and product scope will be managed can be influenced by how the organization’s quality policy, methodologies, and standards are implemented on the project

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Quality management plan

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The Project management plan’s _____________ determines the series of phases that a project passes through from its inception to the end of the project.

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Project life cycle description

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The Project management plan’s _____________ defines whether waterfall, iterative, adaptive, agile, or a hybrid development approach will be used

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Development approach

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The Plan Scope Management’s ________________ are the organization’s culture, infrastructure, marketplace conditions

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Enterprise Environmental factors

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The Plan Scope Management’s ______________________ are the Policies and procedures, historical and lessons learned repositories

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Organizational Process Assets

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18
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T/F: A data analysis technique that can be used for the plan scope management process includes but is not limited to alternative analysis.

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True.

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19
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______________ for the Plan Scope Management Process are various ways of collecting requirements, elaborating the project and product scope, creating the product, validating the scope, and controlling the scope are evaluated.

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Data Analysis

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20
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____________________ is an output of the plan scope management process and a component of the project management plan. It describes how the scope will be defined, developed, monitored, controlled, and validated.

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Scope Management Plan

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21
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Components of scope management plan include the process for preparing a __________ statement, and a process that enables the creation of the _______ from the detailed project scope statement.

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project scope, WBS.

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22
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Components of scope management plan include a process that establishes how the ____________ will be approved and maintained, and a process that specifies how formal acceptance of the completed __________ will be obtained.

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scope baseline, project deliverables

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23
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The ________________ Plan is a component of the project management plan, it describes how project and product requirements will be collected, analyzed, documented, and managed.

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Requirements Management

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24
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____________ is the process of determining, documenting, and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives.

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Collect requirements

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25
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The key benefit of the _____________ process is to provide the basis for defining the product scope and project scope.

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collect requirements

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26
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The _____________ plan is used to understand stakeholders communication requirements and the level of stakeholder engagement in order to assess and adapt to the level of stakeholder participation in requirements activities

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Stakeholder Engagement

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27
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The collect requirements process inputs include ___________ documents , __________ documents , and ________________.

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project documents, business documents, agreements.

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28
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The Collect Requirements Process project documents are the _______________, ___________. and the _____________

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Assumption log, lesson learned register, stakeholder register

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The ___________ identifies assumptions about the product, project, environment, stakeholders, and other factors that may influence requirements.

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Assumption log

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30
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The _______________ is used to provide information on effective requirements collection techniques.

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Lesson Learned Register

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31
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_____________ is used to identify stakeholders who can provide information on the requirements. It also captures requirements and expectations that stakeholders have for the project.

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Stakeholder Register

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32
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Business case, which can describe required, desired, and optional criteria for meeting the business _________.

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needs

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33
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Data Gathering can be done using ___________, _______, _____, ____________, and __________________.

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Brainstorming, Interviews, Focus groups, Questionnaires and surveys, benchmarking

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34
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____________ is used to generate and collect multiple ideas related to project and product requirements.

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Brainstorming

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35
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____________ elicits information from stakeholders by talking to them directly.

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Interviews

36
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T/F: Interviews are NOT for obtaining confidential information.

A

f, they are also useful for….

37
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__________ bring together prequalified stakeholders and subject matter experts to learn about their expectations.

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Focus groups

38
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________________ are written sets of questions designed to quickly accumulate information from large number of respondents.

A

Questionnaires and Surveys

39
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__________________ involves comparing actual or planned practices, such as processes and operations, to those of comparable organizations to identify best practices, generate ideas for improvement, and provide a basis for measuring performance.

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Benchmarking

40
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T/F: The organizations compared during benchmarking can be internal or external.

A

True.

41
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___________ is when one individual takes responsibility for making the decision for the group.

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Autocratic Decision making

42
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________________ uses 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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Multicriteria decision analysis

43
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______________ is where ideas created through individual brainstorming session are consolidated into a single map to reflect commonality and differences in understanding and to generate new ideas.

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Mind Mapping

44
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An _____________ allows large numbers of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis.

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Affinity Diagram

45
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______________ 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

46
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__________ a direct way of viewing individuals in their environment and how they perform their jobs or tasks and carry out processes.

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Observation/conversation

47
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T/F: Observation/Conversation is used to uncover hidden requirements.

A

True.

48
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__________ bring key stakeholders together to define product requirements.

A

facilitation

49
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T/F: Nominal group technique can be used to quickly define cross-functional requirements and reconcile stakeholder differences.

A

F, Facilitation not Nominal group technique

50
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T/F: Well-facilitated sessions can build trust, foster relationships, and improve communication among participants.

A

True.

51
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__________ diagram visually depicts the product scope by showing a business system (process, equipment, computer system, etc.), and how people and other systems (actors) interact with it.

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Context Diagram

52
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The context diagram shows (inputs/outputs) to the business system, the actor(s) providing the input, the output from the business system, and the actor(s) receiving the output.

A

inputs

53
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________ is a method of obtaining early feedback on requirements by providing a model of the expected product before actually building it.
e.g. small-scale products, computer generated 2d and 3D models, mock-ups

A

Prototyping

54
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_______________ is a grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them

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Requirements Traceability Matrix

55
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Requirements Traceability Matrix helps ensure that each requirement adds __________ by linking it to the business and project objectives

A

business value

56
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T/F: Requirements Traceability Matrix ensures that requirements approved in the requirements documentation are delivered at the end of the project.

A

True.

57
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_____________ is the process of developing a detailed description of the project and product.

A

Define scope

58
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The key benefit of the ____________ process is to describe the product, service, or result boundaries and acceptance criteria

A

Define Scope

59
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_____________ bring key stakeholders who have a variety of expectations or fields of expertise together in workshops to define product and project scope.

A

Facilitation

60
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________________ is the output of the define scope process, it includes the project scope description, acceptance criteria, project deliverables, exclusions, constraints, and assumptions

A

Project scope statement

60
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______________ is a set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.

A

Acceptance criteria

60
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___________ is the process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components.

A

Create WBS

61
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The key benefit of the ____________ process is to provide a framework of what has to be delivered.

A

Create WBS

62
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The _____________ is a hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables

A

WBS

63
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T/F: The WBS organizes and defines the total scope of the project and represents the work specified in the current approved project scope statement

A

True.

64
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Lowest level of WBS components, which are called ___________.

A

work packages.

65
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___________ is a technique used for dividing and subdividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller, more manageable parts.

A

Decomposition

66
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T/F: The work package level is the lowest level in the WBS that the cost and the durations can be estimated and managed.

A

True

67
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The _________ is the approved version of the project scope statement and the WBS. It is also the output of the create WBS process.

A

Scope Baseline

68
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The ___________ is a document that provides detailed deliverable, activity, and scheduling information about each component in the WBS.

A

WBS Dictionary

69
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___________ is the process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables.

A

Validate scope

70
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The key benefit of the ___________ process is to increase the probability of final product, service, or result acceptance by validating each deliverable.

A

Validate Scope Process

71
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Validate scope is concerned with acceptance of deliverables by _________ or _______ to ensure that they are fully completed as per customer requirements

A

customer, sponser

72
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__________ is concerned with correctness of the deliverables by QC department to ensure that they meet specified quality requirements

A

Quality control

73
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___________ are project deliverables that are completed and checked for correctness through the Control Quality process

A

Verified Deliverables

74
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____________ includes activities such as measuring and testing to determine whether deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria

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inspection

75
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____________ are sometimes called reviews, product reviews, and walkthroughs

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Inspections

76
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____________ are deliverables that meet the acceptance criteria are formally signed off and approved by the customer or sponsor.

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Accepted Deliverables

77
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_______________ includes information about progress, such as which deliverables have started, their progress, which deliverables have finished, or accepted.

A

Work Performance Information

78
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Work Performance Information is documented and communicated to (stakeholders/shareholders)

A

stakeholders

79
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____________ is the process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.

A

Control scope

80
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The key benefit of the _____________ process is to ensure that the scope baseline is maintained throughout the project

A

Control Scope

81
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____________ Analysis is used to compare the baseline to the actual results and determine if the variance is within the threshold amount or if corrective or preventive action is appropriate.

A

Variance

82
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____________ Analysis examines project performance over time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating.

A

Trend

83
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___________________ is the uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time, cost, and resources.

A

Scope Creep