Ch.5 Scope Flashcards
What is the definition of the product scope?
The requirements related to the product of the project.
What is the definition of the project scope?
The work the project will do to deliver the product of the project.
What is the process of the scope management?
- Plan scope management
- Collect requirements
- Define scope
- Create WBS
- Validate scope
- Control Scope
What is the definition of scope management?
Defining what work is required and then making sure all of the work, and only the work, is included in the project.
What are the key outputs of the plan scope management process?
- Scope management plan
- Requirements management plan
What are the key outputs of the collect requirements process?
- Requirements documentation
- Requirements traceability matrix
What is the key output of the define scope process?
- Project scope statement
What are the key output of the create WBS process?
- Work breakdown structure (WBS)
- WBS dictionary
- Scope baseline (the WBS and WBS dictionary are components of the scope baseline)
What are the key output of the validate scope process?
- Work performance information
- Accepted deliverable
- Change requests
- Update to project documents
What are the key outputs of the control scope process?
- Work performance information
- Change requests
- Updates to the project management plan and project documents
Name several requirements-gathering techniques
Reviewing historical records Interviewing Focus groups Facilitated workshop Brainstorming Nominal group technique Multi-criteria decision analysis Mind maps Affinity diagrams Questionnaires and surveys Observations Prototypes Benchmarking Context diagrams Group decision making
What is the value of requirements traceability matrix?
What requirements attributes might be recorded in the documents?
Helps link requirements to objectives and/or other requirements to make sure the project meets strategic goals
Requirements identifications number
Source of the requirements
Who is assigned to manage the requirements
Status of the requirements
What is the project scope statement?
What are the key items included in a project scope statements?
A description of the project deliverables and the work required to create those deliverables
- Product scope
- Project scope
- Deliverables (for the product and the project)
- Acceptance criteria
- What is not part of the project
- Assumptions and constrains
Product analysis is part of which scope management process?
define scope
When is WBS created and what is it used for?
Created during the project management planning by the team and sued to define or decompose the project into smaller, ore manageable pieces.
Used to help determine project staffing, estimating, scheduling, and risk management.
What is decomposition?
Subdividing the major deliverables into smaller, more manageable components.
What is a WBS dictionary?
A description of the work to be done for each work package.
How are work packages different from activities?
Activities are generated from each work package.
Work package are shown in a WBS
Activities are shown in an activity list and network diagram
What is validate scope process?
When is it done?
The process of gaining formal acceptance of the deliverables by the customer or sponsor.
During project monitoring and controlling and at the ned of each phase of the project life cycle.
What makes up the scope baseline?
- Project scope statement
- WBS
- WBS dictionary
Elements of the Project Charter
Project Charter
- Project purpose or justification
- Measurable project objectives and related success criteria
- High-level requirements
- High-level project description
- High-level risks
- Summary milestone schedule
- Summary budget
- Stakeholder list
- Project approval requirements (what constitutes success, who decides it, who signs off)
- Assigned project manager,responsibility, and authority level
- Name and authority of the sponsor or other person(s) authorizing the project charter
Elements of the Project Scope Statement
Project Scope Statement
- Project scope description (progressively elaborated)
- Acceptance criteria
- Project deliverables
- Project exclusions
- Project constraints
- Project assumptions
