Chapter4 Flashcards
Who is in charge of a single small project can plan and schedule the project tasks without much formal planning and information.
Project Manager
it is a definition of the end result or mission of your project
Project scope
it describe what you expect to deliver to your customer when the project is complete
Scope
Project Scope Checklist
- Project Objective
- Deliverables
- Milestones
- Technical Requirements
- Limits and exclusions
- Reviews with customer
The first step of project scope definition is to define the overall objective to meet your customer’s needs
Project Objective
It is the expected outputs over the life of the project
Deliverables
It is a significant event in a project that occurs at a point in a time. It It shows only major segment of work
Milestones
It is to ensure proper performance.
Technical requirements
Failure to do this can lead to false expectation and to expending resources and time on the wrong problem
Limit and exclusions
The main concern here is the understanding and agreement of expectations.
Reviews with customer
this refers to a document that authorizes the project manager to initiate and lead the project
Project Charter
It is the tendency for the project to expand over ime
Scope Creep
A technique used to identify which criterion is constrained, which should be enhanced, and which can be accepted
Priority Matrix
The original parameter is fixed
Constrain
Criterion should be optimized
Enhance
Project Management trade-offs
Scope, Cost, Time
Which criterion is it tolerable not to meet the original parameters
Accept
It is a map of the project.
Work Breakdown Structure
Defines all the elements of the project in a hierarchical framework and establishes their relationship to the project end item
Work Breakdown Stucture
The lowest level of the WBS is called ____
work package
It is responsible for seeing that the package is completed on time, within budget, and according to technical spesification
Work package manager
it depicts how the firm has organized to discharge work responsibility
Organization breakdown structure
Summarized the tasks to be accomplished and who is responsible for what on a project
Responsibility table or Linear Responsibility Chart
It is a key component in coordinating and tracking project schedules, issues and action items
Communication
Communication plan follows these basic steps:
- Stakeholder analysis
- Information needs
- Sources of information
- Dissemination modes
- Responsibility timing
Steps in Defining the project
- defining the project scope
- Establishing project priorities
- Creating the work breakdown structure
- Integrating the WBS with the organization
- Coding the WBS for the Information System
Purpose of the Scope Statemtent
- To clearly define the deliverables for the end user
- To focus the project on successful completion of its goals
- To be used by the project owner and participants as a planning toll and for measuring project success.
