CHAPTER 3 Flashcards
The actions to begin projects and project phases
Initiating Processes
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
Planning Process
The action taken to monitor progress toward achieving project goals, monitor deviation from plans, and take corrective action
Monitoring and Controlling Processes
The actions that involve coordinating people and other resources to carry out the project plan and produce the deliverables of the project
Executed Processes
a product of service produced or provided as part of a project
Deliverable
A series of actions directed toward a particular result
Process
A technique that provides visual cues to a project workflow
Kanban
Plans, processes, policies, procedures, and knowledge bases, such as templates and lessons-learned reports
Organizational Process Assets
The actions that involve formalizing acceptance of the project or phase and bring it to an orderly end
Closing Processes
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
Six Sigma
A senior manager who acts as a key proponent for a project
Champion
A document that includes details related to the identified project stakeholders
Stakeholder Register
An organizational entity created to assist project managers in achieving project goals
PMO
Project Management Office
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
Kick-off Meeting
A project management methodology with eight process groups developed in the UK
PRINCE2
PRojects IN Controlled Environments
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
RUP Framework
Rational Unified Process
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
Template
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
Enterprise Environmental Factors
A document that formally recognizes the existence of a project and provides a summary of the projects objectives and management
Project Charter
A document that provides justification for investing in a project
Business Case
The leading agile development method for completing projects with complex, innovating scope of work
Scrum
A plan that describes how how things should be done to manage the project
Methodology
A technique for analyzing information to determine which stakeholders’ interests to focus on and how to increase stakeholder support throughout the project
Stakeholder Analytics
A document that describes best practices for what should be done to manage a project
Standard
