Definitions 151-180 Flashcards

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What is IDIQ? (Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity)

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A contract that provides for an indefinite quantity of goods or services, with a stated lower and upper limit, within a fixed time period.

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What is an Influence Diagram?

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A graphical representation of situations showing causal influences, time ordering of events, and other relationships among variable and outcomes.

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What is an Information Radiator?

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A visible, physical display that provides information to the rest of the organization, enabling timely knowledge sharing.

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What is an Initiating Process Group?

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Those processes performed to define a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase.

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What is Internal Dependency?

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A relationship between two or more project activities.

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What are Interpersonal Skills?

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Skills used to establish and maintain relationships with other people.

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Define Issue.

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A current condition or situation that may have an impact on the project objectives.

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What is an Issue Log?

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A project document where information about issues is recorded and monitored.

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Define Iteration.

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A timeboxed cycle of development on a product or deliverable in which all of the work that is needed to deliver value is performed.

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What is an Iteration Plan?

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A detailed plan for the current iteration.

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What is an Iteration Planning?

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A meeting to clarify the details of the backlog items, acceptance criteria, and work effort required to meet an upcoming iteration commitment.

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What is an Iteration Review?

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A meeting held at the end of an iteration to demonstrate the work that was accomplished during the iteration.

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What is a Kanban Board?

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A visualization tool that shows work in progress to help identify bottlenecks and overcommitments, thereby allowing the team to optimize the workflow.

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What is a Kickoff Meeting?

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A gathering of team members and other key stakeholders at the outset of a project to formally set expectations, gain a common understanding, and commence work.

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Define Knowledge.

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A mixture of experience, values, and beliefs, contextual information, intuition, and insight that people use to make sense of new experiences and information.

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Define Lag.

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The amount of time whereby a successor activity will be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity. - Different than Lead.

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What is the Last Responsible Moment?

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The concept of deferring a decision to allow the team to consider multiple options until the cost of further delay would exceed the benefit.

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Define Lead.

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The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity. - Different than Lag.

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What is Lead Time?

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The time between a customer request and the actual delivery.

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What is a Lead Time Chart?

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A diagram showing the trend over time of the average lead time of the items completed in work.

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What is a Lean Startup Canvas?

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A one-page template designed to communicate a business plan with key stakeholders in an efficient and effective manner.

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What are Lessons Learned?

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The knowledge gained during a project, which shows how project events were addresses or should be addresses in the future, for the purpose of improving future performance.

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What is a Lessons Learned Register?

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A project document used to record knowledge gained during a project, phase, or iteration so that it can be used to improve future performance for the team and the organization.

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What is a Life Cycle?

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The series of phases that a project passed through from its start to it completion. - Same as Project Life Cycle.

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What is LCA? (Life Cycle Assessment)

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A tool used to evaluate the total environment impact of a product, process, or system.

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Define Log.

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A document used to record and describe or denote selected items

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What is a Make-or-Buy Analysis?

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The process of gathering and organizing data about product requirements and analyzing them against available alternatives including the purchase or internal manufacture of the product.

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What is a Management Reserve?

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An amount of the project budget or project schedule held outside of the performance measurement baseline for management control purposes that is reserved for unforeseen work that is within the project scope.

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What is a Mandatory Dependency?

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A relationship that is contractually required or inherent in the nature of the work.

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What is an Iteration Review?

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A development approach that focuses on an initial, simplified implementation then progressively elaborates adding to the feature set until he final deliverable is complete.