CHAPTER 3

Question 1

The actions to begin projects and project phases

Answer 1

Initiating Processes

Question 2

The actions that involve devising and maintaining a workable scheme to ensure that the project meets its scope, schedule, and cost goals as well as organizational needs

Answer 2

Planning Process

Question 3

The action taken to monitor progress toward achieving project goals, monitor deviation from plans, and take corrective action

Answer 3

Monitoring and Controlling Processes

Question 4

The actions that involve coordinating people and other resources to carry out the project plan and produce the deliverables of the project

Answer 4

Executed Processes

Question 5

a product of service produced or provided as part of a project

Answer 5

Deliverable

Question 6

A series of actions directed toward a particular result

Answer 6

Process

Question 7

A technique that provides visual cues to a project workflow

Answer 7

Kanban

Question 8

Plans, processes, policies, procedures, and knowledge bases, such as templates and lessons-learned reports

Answer 8

Organizational Process Assets

Question 9

The actions that involve formalizing acceptance of the project or phase and bring it to an orderly end

Answer 9

Closing Processes

Question 10

A comprehensive and flexible system for achieving, sustaining, and maximizing business success; uniquely driven by a close understanding of customer needs, disciplined use of facts, data, and statistical analysis, and diligent attention to managing, improving, and reinventing business proceeds

Answer 10

Six Sigma

Question 11

A senior manager who acts as a key proponent for a project

Answer 11

Champion

Question 12

A document that includes details related to the identified project stakeholders

Answer 12

Stakeholder Register

Question 13

An organizational entity created to assist project managers in achieving project goals

Answer 13

PMO

Project Management Office

Question 14

A meeting held at the beginning of a project so that the stakeholders can meet each other, review the goals of the project and produce the deliverables of the project

Answer 14

Kick-off Meeting

Question 15

A project management methodology with eight process groups developed in the UK

Answer 15

PRINCE2

PRojects IN Controlled Environments

Question 16

A project management methodology that uses an iterative software development process that focuses on team productivity and delivers software best practices to all team members

Answer 16

RUP Framework

Rational Unified Process

Question 17

A file with a present format that serves as a starting point for creating various documents so that the format and structure do not have to be re-created

Answer 17

Template

Question 18

Conditions, not under the immediate control of the project team, that influence, constrain, or direct the project, such as government standards, legal/regulatory requirements, marketplace conditions, and organizational culture

Answer 18

Enterprise Environmental Factors

Question 19

A document that formally recognizes the existence of a project and provides a summary of the projects objectives and management

Answer 19

Project Charter

Question 20

A document that provides justification for investing in a project

Answer 20

Business Case

Question 21

The leading agile development method for completing projects with complex, innovating scope of work

Answer 21

Scrum

Question 22

A plan that describes how how things should be done to manage the project

Answer 22

Methodology

Question 23

A technique for analyzing information to determine which stakeholders’ interests to focus on and how to increase stakeholder support throughout the project

Answer 23

Stakeholder Analytics

Question 24

A document that describes best practices for what should be done to manage a project

Answer 24

Standard

Question 25

A distinct stage in the project development

Answer 25

Phase