Day 2 Flashcards
What is the Scope Management Plan (traditional)?
✓ Enables the creation of the WBS from the detailed project scope statement
✓ Establishes how the scope baseline will be approved and maintained
✓ Specifies how formal acceptance of the completed project deliverables
will be obtained.
✓ Can be formal or informal, broadly framed or highly detailed.
What should the Scope Management Plan include?
✓ Should include processes to prepare a project scope statement
What are some Scope Management Tools and Techniques?
- Expert judgement- internal and external experts
- Alternatives analysis- Used to evaluate identified options in order to select the options or approaches to use to execute and perform the work of the project
- Meetings- Team members help create the scope management plan
Why are Project and Product Requirements important?
✓ High-level requirements might be documented in the project charter.
✓ Verify that all requirements are determined and documented.
✓ Provide the foundation for building the WBS.
What is the Predictive Project and Product Scope?
✓ Predictive- The scope baseline for the project is the approved version
of the project scope statement, work breakdown structure (WBS), and associated WBS dictionary.
What is an Agile Project and Product Scope?
✓ Agile - Backlogs (including product requirements and user stories)
reflect current project (stakeholder) needs.
What do you measure the completion of the project scope against?
✓ Measure completion of project scope against the project management plan.
What do you measure the completion of the product scope against?
✓ Measure completion of the product scope against product
requirements.
What does a Tolerance Level enable you to do?
Tolerance levels enable you to effectively manage an issue without needing to escalate it every time.
What might an area of Tolerance include?
Areas of tolerance might include:
✓ Budget
✓ Schedule
✓ Quality
✓ Accepted or baselined requirements, including:
- Solution – functional/non-functional
- Business and Stakeholder
- Quality
What are Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEFs)?
Factors that you cannot control but still have an impact on your project; internal and external
What are some internal Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEFs)?
✓ Organizational culture, structure, and governance
✓ Geographic distribution of facilities and resources
✓ Infrastructure
✓ Resource availability
✓ Employee capability
What are some external Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEFs)?
✓ Marketplace conditions
✓ Social and cultural influences and issues
✓ Legal restrictions
✓ Commercial databases
✓ Academic research
✓ Government or industry standards
✓ Financial considerations
✓ Physical environmental elements
What are Organizational Process Assets (OPAs)?
Processes, policies, and procedures are:
✓ Established by the project management office (PMO) or another function outside of the project.
✓ Not updated as part of project work
✓ Templates, lifecycles, and checklists can be tailored, but not updated, for a project.
What are Organizational knowledge bases in an Organizational Process
Assets (OPAs)?
Organizational knowledge bases are:
✓ Updated throughout the project with project information
✓ Updated information such as financial performance, lessons learned, performance metrics and issues, and defects.
What is meant by document analysis?
Derive new project requirements from existing documents such as:
✓ Business plans
✓ Service agreements
✓ Marketing materials
✓ Current process diagrams
✓ Application software documentation
What are focus groups?
✓ Loosely structured, information-sharing sessions
✓ Moderator-guided, interactive
✓ Includes stakeholders and SMEs
✓ Qualitative research
When would you use Questionnaires and Surveys?
Often used data gathering technique:
* With varied audiences
* When a quick turnaround is needed
* When respondents are geographically dispersed
* Where statistical analysis could be appropriate.
What is benchmarking?
✓ Evaluates and compares a business’ or project’s practices with others.
✓ Identifies best practices in order to meet or exceed them.
What are interviews used for?
✓ Helps to identify a stakeholder’s requirements, goals, or expectations
for a project.
✓ Use to identify/define features and functions of desired project’s deliverables.
What is Voting in the Group Decision-Making Techniques?
Collective decision-making and assessment; Determines several alternatives, with future actions as the expected outcome; Use to generate, classify, and prioritize product requirements
What is Autocratic decision making in the Group Decision-Making Techniques?
One team member makes the decision for the group.
What is multicriteria decision analysis in the Group Decision-Making Techniques?
Method - Establish criteria in decision matrix e.g. risk levels, uncertainty, and
valuation; Uses a systematic, analytical approach; Evaluate and rank many ideas
What are the types of voting?
Unanimity
Majority
Plurality
Agile Methods