Definitions 331-360

Question 1

What is a Status Report?

Answer 1

a report on the current status of the project.

Question 2

What is a Steering Committee?

Answer 2

An advisory body of senior stakeholders who provide direction and support for the project team and make decisions outside the project team’s authority.

Question 3

What is a Story Map?

Answer 3

A visual model of all the features and functionality desired for a given product, created to give the team a holistic view of what they are building and why.

Question 4

What is a Story Point?

Answer 4

A unit used to estimate the relative level of effort needed to implement a user story.

Question 5

What is a Strategic Plan?

Answer 5

A high-level document that explains or organization’s vision and mission plus that approach that will be adopted to achieve this mission and vision, including the specific goals and objectives to be achieved during the period covered by the document.

Question 6

What are Strategy Artifacts?

Answer 6

Documents created prior to or at the start of the project that address strategic, business, or high-level information about the project.

Question 7

Define Swarm.

Answer 7

A method in which multiple team members focus collectively on resolving a specific problem or task.

Question 8

What is a SWOT Analysis?

Answer 8

Analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of an organization, project, or option.

Question 9

What is Tacit Knowledge?

Answer 9

Personal knowledge that can be difficult to articulate and share such as beliefs, experience, and insights.

Question 10

Define Tailoring.

Answer 10

The deliberate adaptation of approach, governance, and processes to make them more suitable for the given environment and the work at hand.

Question 11

What is a Task Board?

Answer 11

A visual representation of the progress of the planned work that allows everyone to see the status of the tasks.

Question 12

What is a Team Charter?

Answer 12

A document that records the team values, agreements, and operating guidelines, as well as establishes clear expectations regarding acceptable behavior by project team members.

Question 13

What is Team Performance Domain?

Answer 13

The performance domain that addresses activities and functions associated with the people who are responsible for producing project deliverables that realize business outcomes.

Question 14

What are Technical Performance Measures?

Answer 14

Quantifiable measures of technical performance that are used to ensure system components meet the technical requirements.

Question 15

Define Template.

Answer 15

A partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting, organizing, and presenting information and data.

Question 16

What is a Test Plan?

Answer 16

A document describing deliverables that will be tested, tests that will be conducted, and the processes that will be used in testing.

Question 17

Define Threat.

Answer 17

A risk that would have a negative effect on one or more project objectives.

Question 18

Define Threshold.

Answer 18

A predetermined value of a measurable project variable that represents a limit that requires action to be taken if it is reached.

Question 19

Define Throughput.

Answer 19

The number of items passing through a process.

Question 20

What is a Throughput Chart?

Answer 20

A diagram that shows the accepted deliverables overtime.

Question 21

What is T&M? (Time and Materials Contract)

Answer 21

A type of contract that is hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost-reimbursable and fixed-prices contracts.

Question 22

Define Timebox.

Answer 22

A short, fixed period of time in which work is to be completed.

Question 23

Define Tolerance.

Answer 23

The quantified description of acceptable variation for a quality requirement.

Question 24

What is a Trend Analysis?

Answer 24

A analytical method that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results.

Question 25

What is a Triple Bottom Line?

Answer 25

A framework for considering the full cost of doing business by evaluating a company’s bottom line from the perspective of profit, people, and the planet.

Question 26

Define Uncertainty.

Answer 26

A lack of understanding and awareness of issues, events, path t follow, or solutions to pursue.

Question 27

What is Uncertainty Domain?

Answer 27

The performance domain that addresses activities and functions associated with risk and uncertainty.

Question 28

What is a Use Case?

Answer 28

An artifact for describing and exploring how a use interacts with a system to achieve a specific goal.

Question 29

What is a User Story?

Answer 29

A brief description of an outcome for a specific user, which is a promise for a conversation to clarify details.

Question 30

Define Validation.

Answer 30

The assurance that a product, service, and result meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders, Also known as Verification.