Chapter 4 Flashcards
Who responsibility is it to write the project management plan and make certain everyone, including team members and key stakeholders, understand it.
Project Manager
Consists of several important documents, starting with the preliminary scope statement and projct charter.
Project Management Plan
A planning phase that includes all components that make up the product or service of the project and what it intends to produce.
Project Scope
What are the three scope components?
Scope Management Plan
Scope Statement
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
WBS
Work Breakdown Structure
How many scope components are there?
Three
Documents how the project scope will be defined and verified and how scope will be minitored and controlled throughout the life of the project.
Scope Management Plan
Provides a common understanding of the project by documenting the project objectives and deliverables.
Scope Statement
Breaks the project deliverables down into smaller components from which you can estimate task durations, assign resources, and estimate costs.
Work Breakdown Stucture
_________ involves activities such as creating the scope management plan, the work breakdown structure, the project schedule, the risk plan, the resource plan, the communication plan, and much more.
Planning
An assortment of documents that describes what the project is, what the project will deliver, and how all the project processes will be managed.
Project Management Plan
What includes a definition of how the deliverables will be verified for accuracy and the process used for accepting deliverables?
Scope Management Plan
What includes a process for creating, maintaining, and approving the work breakdown structure (WBS)?
Scope Management Plan
What includes a description of the process for controlling scope change requests, including the procedure for requesting changes and how to obtain a change request form?
Scope Management Plan
What includes the process you’ll use to prepare the scope statement?
Scope Management Plan
Changing the project or product scope without considering the impacts it will have to the project schedule, budget, abd resources?
Scope Creep
A term used to describe the changes and additions that seem to make their way into the project to the point where you’re not managing the same project anymore.
Scope Creep
A change Request Process should be documented where?
Scope Management Plan
What includes all the components that make up the product or service of the project and the results the project intends to produce?
Scope Statement
Builds on and adds detailes to the preliminary scope statement and the project charter
Scope Statement
The purpose of the ______________________ is to document the project objectives, the deliverables, and the work required to produce the deliverables.
Scope Statement
What includes the project objectives, a project description, product scope, success criteria, key deliverables, time na dcost estimates, project assumptions, and constraines?
Scope Statement
Describes the overall goal the project hopes to achieve
Objectives
Explains the key characteristics of the product or service you are creating with this project
Project Scope Description
Describes the features and functions of the product, as well as documents the major characteristics of the product.
Product Scope
Oversees the existing products and the development of new products for the organization
Product Manager
Similar to the Project Manager, but their focus is on the product itself, not the project management life cycle.
Product Manager
Includes the process and criteria you’ll use to determine that the deliverables are complete and satisfactorily meet expectations.
Success Criteria
The criteria that describes how you’ll determine whether the entire project is complete and meets expectations.
Final Acceptance Criteria
KPI
Key Performance Indicator
Metrics that help you determine whether the project is on track and progressing as planned and whether deliverables meet expectations.
Key Performance Indicators
Where should the Key performance Indicator be documented?
Scope Statement
Increase Profit, Reduce Expense, Imrove Employee Retention, Improve Customre Satisfaction, are all examples of what?
Key Performance Indicators
Measurable outcomes, measurable results, or specific items that must be produced to consider the project or project phase completed are examples of what?
Deliverables
Anything that isn’t included as a deliverable or work of the project.
Exclusions from Scope
An estimate of the time it will take to complete all the work and the estimate for the cost of the project.
Order of Magnitude
An action, a condition, or an event that is believed to be true
Assumption
Anything that restrics or dictates the actions of the project team.
Constraints
Budget, Scope, Deliverables, Quality, Environment, Resources, Requirements, nad Sceduling are all examples of ________.
Constraints
Factors that may impact or change an existing constraint or may bring about a new constraint
Influences
Change Request and Scope Creep are examples of ________.
Influences
When a constraint changes its impact or infuence on the project
Constraint Reprioratization
Describes results or outcomes that must be produced to satisfy a contract, specification, standard, or other project document.
Requirements
The big-picture results of fulfilling a project and how they satisfy business goals, strategy, and erspective.
Business Requirements
The product characteristics needed for the product to perform.
Funtional Requirements
Characteristics of the functional requirements
Nonfunctional Requirements
BBusiness need for the project and why it was undertaken should be included in the ____________.
Requirements Document
Dcomenting where the requirement originated, documenting what the requirement will be traced to, linking each requirement ro a testing strategy, and then following it through to deliver or completion is an example of what?
Traceability Matrix
Each requirement should have its own _________.
Unique Identifier (ID)
All of the collective phases the project progresses through from the start of the project until the end
Project Life Cycle
Used to determine whether the project is worth undertaking and whether the project will be profitable to the organization.
Feasibility Study
PRINCE2
Projects In Controlled Environments
A project management methodology that divides up projects into small stages that are logically organized.
PRINCE2 (Projects In Controlled Environments)
A framework whereby the development and operations staff members are embedded on one team.
DevOps
Who is responsible for developing and maintaining applications
Development Team
Who is responsible for implementing and maintaining the servers and networks that applications run on?
Operations Team
A framework whereby the development, security, and operations staff members are embedded on one team.
DevSecOps
Consists of the phases of the project associated with producing the product, service, or result of the project.
Development Life Cycle
Which Development Life Cycle methodology is the “grandfather”?
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
SDLC
Software Development Life Cycle
Which Development Life Cycle methodology is used to assist in delivering high-quality software?
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Which Development Life Cycle methodology consists of several development phases that define the life cycle for creating software applications?
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Segments of work that allow for easier management, planning, and control of the work
Phases
Which Software Development Live Cycle phase involves determining scope, what problem are we trying to solve, resources, costs, and more?
Planning Phase
Which Software Development Live Cycle phase involves determining the “what” the application should do?
Defining Phase
Which Software Development Live Cycle phase involves determining the specifications of the system and defining the features of the requirements?
Designing Phase
Which Software Development Live Cycle phase involves writing the code?
Building Phase
Which Software Development Live Cycle phase ensures the application works as intened and the requirements, features, and functionality perform as designed?
Testing Phase
Which Software Development Live Cycle phase is the final phase?
Deploying Phase
Software Developmet Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies encompasses two categories
Waterfall
Agile
A step-by-step methodology whereby each stage of the project work is completed in order.
Waterfall Methodology
A methodology where you manage projects in small, incremental portions of work that can be easily assigned, easily managed, and completed within a short period of time.
Agile Methodology
Which Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology would you use when the project is high at risk, when you are not certain of all the requirements at the beginning of a project, or when you work in a changing environment?
Agile Methodology
Short, irative phases of work
Sprints
________ are always time-bound. Can consist of any short period of time defined and agreed on by the team.
Sprints
Anything the project team is doing that doesn’t add value to the process.
Waste
Eliminating holding too many meeting that don’t add value is an example of what?
Kaizen Methodology
What are the 7 wastes?
Motion
Waiting
Transportation
Storage
Defects
Processing
Overproduction
Tests on small, whole units of code to determine whether the code is functional.
Unit Tests
Involves testing several pieces of the code together to see if they perform as expected.
Integration testing
An end-to-end test to ensure the code works throughout the entire process
Functional Testing
Improvingthe quality of the code without changing its functionality
Refractoring
______ means there are always two developers working in pairs at the same computer.
Pair Programming
What is the five-step approach to develop code rapidly?
Develop
Create
Plan
Design
Build
Which methodology should be used when there is uncertainty or complexity, or there are uncertain risks about the project requirements?
Hybrid Methodology
A Methodology that is a combination of one or more methodologies to create what works best for the team.
Hybrid
Factors that should bge examined when choosing a methodology or a combination of them.
Tollerance for Change/Flexibility
Requirements
Budget
Schedules
Environmental Factors
Culture
Developmental
Industry Standards
Requirements on a Scrum and Kanban project are known as ____________.
User Stories
Documents the functionality or requirement of the application and the person or people who will benefit from this requirement.
User Stories
The “who” of the user stories are known as ______.
Actors
Contains a brief description of the features or functionality that are desired by the actor and describes why the requirement is needed by the actor and why it’s valuable to them.
User Stories
Contains all the user stories that are neededd to complete the project
Product Backlog
Who is responsible for maintaining and prioratizing the product backlog?
Product Owner
MVP
Minimum Viable Product
Involves producing tankgible outputs that have enough features and functionality to allow the customer to examine them and provide feedback to the team
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Cross-functional teams that consist of members from several departments across the organization. Self-organized, Self-directed, Small in number
Agile Teams
What is the ideal number for the amount of agile development team members?
7
Who is considered the voice of the customer and communicates with the stakeholders?
Product Owner
The facilitators who helps educate others in the agile process. Not a manager. Coordinates the work of the sprint
Scrum Master
The person responsible for determining how to configure the solution to meet the needs of the business
Solution Architect
Determining the best technical solution for the business problem at hand
Solution Design
