Chapter Five | Project Scope Management Flashcards
What does JAD stand for
Joint application development
What does QFD stand for
Quality function deployment
What are the two different scopes?
Product scope
Project scope
What is product scope?
The features and functions of the product, service or result of the project
Ex
order hardware, unpack, turn it on, load….
What are we putting together?
Success = requirements they gave us
What is project scope?
The work performed to produce the PSR with the specified features and functions
Project scope is measured against ________
Project management plan
Product scope is measured against______
Product requirements, captured in the collect requirements process
What is predictive life cycle?
Details are defined in the beginning of the project and any changes to the scope are progressively managed
Scope baseline is the approved version of what three things?
Scope statement
Work breakdown structure
Work package
Planning package
Work breakdown dictionaryWhat is adaptive lifecycle
Response to high levels of change and ongoing stakeholder involvement. Scope is defined before each iteration.
What is the key benefit to plan scope management
This provides guidance to the team
5.1. Plan scope management | Output
Scope management plan
requirements management plan
5.1. What is a scope management plan?
Describes how the scope will be defined, developed, monitored, controlled and validated
5.1 What is requirements management plan?
Component of the project management plan. Describes how the requirements will be analyzed, documented, authorized, and managed
Possible traceable matrix
5.2. What is collect requirements
The process of determining, documenting, and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet objectives.
This refers to both product scope and project scope
When working with stakeholders shoot for the stars early on so you do not miss anything. It is better to take things away later than to miss things.
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5.2. Collect Requirements | T&T
What are the five different ways to gather data?
Brainstorming interviews focus groups questionnaires and surveys benchmarking
5.2. Collect requirements | T&T
What are the three different ways to make a decision
Voting
autocratic decision making
multi criteria decision analysis
5.2. Collect Requirements | T&T
What are the two different data representation tools?
Affinity diagram
idea mind mapping
5.2. What is the difference between a workshop and a focus group?
The focus group is one department
workshop is all the departments at one time
5.2 collect requirements | T&T
In facilitation what are the three types of groups
joint application development
quality function development
user stories or voice of the customer
5.2. What is joint application development
The business SME and development team collaborate together requirements.
5.2. What is quality function development?
A technique to determine critical characteristics for new product development by collecting customer needs
5.2 What are user stories or voice of the customer
Workshops are used to develop short descriptions of functionally describing
the stakeholders role benefiting from the feature (role)
What the stakeholder needs to accomplish (goal)
How it benefits the stakeholder (motivation)
5.2 collect requirements | Outputs
What are the two outputs?
Requirements documentation requirements traceability matrix RTM
5.2 output
What is requirements traceability matrix?
A grid that links the product requirements from the origin to the deliverables that satisfy them
A checks and balance method
5.3. Define scope
Developing a detailed description of the product scope and the project scope.
5.3. What is the key benefit of define scope
It describes PSR boundaries and acceptance criteria
Is scope statement part of the charter in PMI
No
5.3. Define Scope | T&T
What data analysis tool is used?
Alternatives analysis
5.3 define Scope | Outputs
What 4 outputs to remember?
Scope statement
deliverables
acceptance criteria
project exclusions
5.4. WSB definition
What is a work breakdown structure?
A hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables
5.4 WBS definitions
What is a work package?
The work defined at the lowest level of each branch of the WBS for which cost and duration are estimated and managed
5.4 Create WBS | T&T
What is decomposition
Subdividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller more manageable parts
5.4 Create WBS | T&T
WBS can be represented in three common forms. What are they?
By phase
Deliverables
Supporting Contract WBS
NOTES. WBS
A WBS may be represented hierarchically
identifies all the work and only the work. If it is not in the WBS it is not part of the project.
It’s the foundation upon which the project is built
Should exist for every project
Helps the project manager and project team think through all aspects of the project
Can be reused for other projects
Does not show schedule dependencies directions or costs
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5.4 WSB | output
Does the customer need to review the work breakdown schedule?
Yes
5.5. What does validate scope mean?
The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed final or intermediate project deliverables
5.4 validate scope
The CONTROL QUALITY Process is about ______ of a given deliverable
CORRECTNESS
5.4
Validate scope process is about _______ of that deliverable
ACCEPTANCE
5.6 What does control scope mean?
The process of monitoring the status of the project scope and project scope and managing changes to the scope baseline
5.6 What is the key benefit of control scope?
It allows the scope baseline to be maintain throughout the project
5.6. Control scope Outputs?
Control quality
5.6 control scope NOTE
What we are building is following WBS?
If not why?
Control scope is making sure that you were following the plan.
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