Chapter 9 Flashcards
The phase of the project where the work takes place
Executing Phase
What is the roadmap for success?
Project Management Plan
Carrying out tasks according to the project management plan, implementing organizational change management, managing vendors, conducting project meetings and updates, reporting on and track project performance, update the project budget, update the project timeline, etc.. will all take part in which project phase?
Executing Phase
Scope Baseline, Cost Baseline, Schedule Baseline, Communication plan, Resource plan, procurement plan, budget baseline, Quality plan, and Risk plan all make up the ____________.
Project Management Plan
What is the final approved plan that you’ll use throughout the remainder of the project to measure project progress and project success?
Project Management Plan
Who should you obtain a sign-off from on the final plan?
Sponsor and Key Stakeholders
When one business takes over another.
Acquisition
Involves bringing all parties to the table with a disinterested
third party who is not a participant in the contract to try to reach an agreement. The purpose of this is to reach an agreement without going to court.
Arbitration
Where the code is tested
Beta-Staging Environment
A process that was carried out automated gets changed into being performed manual is an example of _______________.
Business Process Changes
Reviews, approves, denies, or delays change requests. Also used to communicate upcomming changes
Change Control Board
Documented procedures that describe how the deliverables of the project are controlled, changed, and approved.
Change Control Systems
Involves documenting, monitoring, and managing contested
changes to the contract.
Claims Administration
Changes that cannot be agreed on.
Contested Changes
A type of software development methodology that helps improve the quality of code and the pace of delivery.
Continuous Integration
Documents how to submit changes,
establishes the approval process, and outlines authorization approval levels for changes.
Contract Change Control System
What brings the work of the project into alignment with the project management plan?
Corrective Actions
Either corrects or replaces components that are substandard or malfunctioning
Defect Repairs
When organizations that merged or were acquired decide to break into seperate entities
Demerger
A framework that combines several agile best practices to help the organization transform to agile methodologies.
Disciplined Agile (DA)
DA
Disciplined Agile
These are evaluated by the subject matter experts working on the area of the project that the change impacts, along with input from the project manager.
Impact Assessments
This involves managing changes to elements of the IT environment such as servers, routers, firmware, and software updates.
IT Infrastructure Control
When two companies come together to perform business as one organization.
Merger
The process of making modifications to an organization’s internal processes, systems, policies, and procedures with the aim of improving efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, and overall performance.
Operational Change
The process of making significant altercations to an organizations structure, culture, processes, and/or strategy.
Organizational Change
This occurs when on organization uses external resources to perform business processes and tasks.
Outsourcing
What is implemented to help reduce the probability of a negative risk event?
Preventive Actions
A change to the product of the project such as an application, a physical product, or a service.
Product Change
A strategy or set of procedures used to test the functionality and performance of software after changes or updates have been made to it. Testing is performed to ensure that the modifications made to the software have not introduced any new bugs or caused any unintended consequences that could negatively impact the user experience.
Regression Plan
A physical move of the organization, or parts of the organization that may impact your project.
Relocation
The action or process of changing the way in which something is organized
Reorganization
To back out the changes and revert to the previous state
Reverse Changes
A strategy or procedure put in place to reverse changes made to a system or process
Rollback Plan
This involves implementing agile practices at an organizational or an enterprise level.
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
SAFe
Scaled Agile Framework
An agile framework whereby two or more Scrum teams are assembled who work on the same project and together, make up one large Scrum team.
Scrum of Scrums
ADR
Alternative Dispute resolution
What do vendors submit that describes the work that was completed or the materials that were delivered and should include any supporting documentation necessary to describe what was delivered?
Sellers Invoice
What do changes most offten affect?
Project Scope
Schedules
Budgets
The goals that help define the change outcomes are best stated using the acronym ____________.
S.M.A.R.T
What does the acronym S.M.A.R.T. stand for?
S - Specific
M - Measurable
A - Attainable
R - Realistic
T - Time Bound
What is the key to success for the project and for changes?
Communication
CAB
CCB
Change Advisory Board
Change Control Board
What are the stages in the PRINCE2 methodology
Start Up or Request Stage
Initiating
Directing
Controlling
Delivering
Stage Boundaries
Closing
Which phase of the project entails performing the work required to produce the deliverables and continually monitoring the results to make certain they meet the specifications according to the project plan?
Executing Phase
