Chapter 5 Flashcards
What is managing the project scope primarily concerned with?
Defining and controlling what is and is not included in the project
What are the project scope management processes?
Plan scope management Collect requirements Define scope Create WBS Validate scope Control scope
What’s a product scope
The features and functions that characterize a product, service or result.
Describe a predictive life cycle
The project deliverables are defined at the beginning of the project and any changes to the scope are progressively managed.
Describe an adaptive or agile life cycle
The deliverables are developed over multiple interactions where a detailed scope is defined and approved for each iteration when it begins
The scope of this project life will be decomposed into a set of requirements and work to be performed
This is called a product backlog
Adaptive project
What does a team do at the beginning of an iteration of a product backlog for an adaptive lifecycle
Work to determine how many of the highest priority items on the backlog list can be delivered within the next iteration
In an adaptive life cycle what are the three processes to be repeated for each iteration.
Collect requirements
Define scope
Create WBS
In a predictive project the collect requirements, define scope, and create WBS processes are performed toward the beginning of the project and updated as necessary using the integrated control process.
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Project with what type of lifecycle respond to high level change and require ongoing stakeholder engagement?
Project with adaptive lifecycles
Validate scope and control scope are repeated for each iteration in what lifecycle?
Adaptive or agile life cycles
The validate scope process occurs with each deliverable or phase review and control scope is an ongoing process in what type of lifecycle?
Predictive
In the predictive projects , the scope baseline for the project is the approved version of…
The project scope statement
Work break down structure (WBS)
And the associated WBS dictionary
What do projects with adaptive life cycles use to reflect their current needs/requirements?
Backlogs
What is validate scope.
The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables
What is a new trend/emerging practice in project scope management?
Using business analysis to their competitive advantage
What are the responsibilities of a business analyst assigned to a project?
Requirement related activities
This type of environment deliberately spend less time trying to define and agree on scope in the early stage of the project and spend more time establishing the process for its ongoing discovery and refinement
Agile
What is plan scope management
The process of creating a scope management plan that documents how the project and product scope will be defined, validated, and controlled
What they key benefit of the plan scope management process?
It provides guidance and direction on how scope will be managed throughout the project
What type of data analysis is used for project scope management?
Alternative analysis
Various ways of collecting requirements, elaborating the project and product scope, creating the product, validating the scope, and controlling the scope are evaluated.
what is the Component of the project management plan that describes how project and product requirements will be analyzed, documented, and managed.
Requirements management plan
Aka business analysis plan
The process of determining , documenting, and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet objectives
Collect requirements
What’s the foundation of WBS ?
Requirements
A formal or informal approach to elicit informs from stakeholders by talking to them directly
Brainstorming
A voting process used to rank the most useful ideas for further brainstorming or for prioritization. Structured form of brainstorming using 4 steps.
Nominal group technique
What’s another name for observation?
Job shadowing
The following are all examples of?
Joint application design/development (JAD) ..In software development
Quality function deployment (QFD) using VOC
User stories -text descriptions of functionality
Facilitation - focused sessions that bring key stakeholders together to define product requirements
What’s an example of a scope model?
Context diagram
A method of early feedback on requirements by providing a model of the expected product before actually building it.
Prototyping
A pro typing technique showing sequence or navigation through a series of images or illustrations.
Storyboarding