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What is a business case?
A documented economic feasibility study used to establish validity of the benefits of a selected component lacking sufficient definition and that is used as a basis for the authorization of further program management activities.
What is a benefits management plan?
The documented explanation defining the processes for creating, maximizing and sustaining the benefits provided by a project or program.
What is work performance data?
The raw observations and measurements identified during activities being performed to carry out the project work.
What is work performance infomration?
The performance data collected from controlling processes, analyzed in comparison with project mng plan components, project documents, and other work performance information.
What does a requirements management plan tell you?
Establishes how the requirements will be analyzed, documented and managed
What does a schedule management plan tell you?
Establishes the criteria and the activities for developing, monitoring and controlling the schedule.
What does a scope management plan tell you?
Establishes how the scope will be defined, developed, monitored, controlled and validated.
What does a cost management plan tell you?
Establishes how the costs will be planed, structured and controlled.
What does a quality management plan tell you?
Establishes how and organization’s quality policies, methodologies, and standards will be implemented in the project.
What does a resource management plan tell you?
Provides guidance on how project resources should be categorized, allocated, managed, and released.
What does a communication management plan tell you?
Establishes how, when, and by whom information about the project will be administered and disseminated.
What does a risk management plan tell you?
Establishes how the risk management activities will be structured and performed.
What does a procurement management plan tell you?
Establishes how the project team will acquire goods and services from outside of the performing organization.
What does a stakeholder engagement plan tell you?
Establishes how stakeholders will be engaged in project decisions and execution, according to their needs, interests and impact.
What is a scope baseline?
The approved version of a scope statement, work breakdown structure (WBS), and its associated WBS dictionary, which is used as a basis for comparison.
Includes: Project Scope Statement, WBS and dictionary, Work Package, and Planning Package
What is a schedule baseline?
The approved version of the schedule model that is used as a basis for comparison to the actual results.
What is a cost baseline?
The approved version of the time-phased project budget that is used as a basis for comparison to the actual results.
Excluding any management reserves
What does the change management plan describe?
Describes how the change requests throughout the project will be formally authorized and incorporated.
What does the configuration management plan tell you?
Describes how the information about the items of the project (and which items) will be recorded and updated so that the PSR of the project remains consistent and/or operative.
The configuration management plan defines those items that are configurable, those items that require formal change control, and the process for controlling changes to such items.
What is the performance measurement baseline?
An integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance.
What is a context diagram?
A visual depiction of the product scope showing a business system (process, equipment, computer system, etc) and how people and other systems (actors) interact with it.
What is the stakeholder registry and what can be found in it?
This is used to identify stakeholders who can provide information on the requirements.
It also captures requirements and expectations that stakeholders have for the project.
What is nominal group technique (brainstorming)?
This is a structured form of brainstorming constant of 4 steps:
- A question is posed.
- Moderator writes down the ideas on a flip chart
- Each recorded idea is discussed until all group members have a clear understanding.
- Individuals vote privately to prioritize the ideas (usually with a scale of 1-5)
What is Joint Application Design/Development (JAD)?
JAD sessions are used in software development industry. These sessions focus on bringing business SME and the development team together to gather requirements and improve the process.
What is Quality Function Development (QFD)?
Manufacturing Industry.
Collecting customer needs, also known as VOC. These needs are then objectively sorted and prioritized, and goals are set for achieving them.
What are user stories?
Short, textual descriptions of required functionality, are often developed during a requirements workshop.
What are solution requirements?
These describe features, functions, and characteristics of the PSR that will meet the business and SH requirements.
Functional and Nonfunctional
What are functional requirements?
Describe the BEHAVIORS of the product.
Actions, processes, data, and interactions that the produce should execute.
What are nonfunctional requirements?
Supplement functional requirements and describe the ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS of QUALITIES required for the produce to be effective.
Reliability. security. performance, safety, level of service, supportability, retention/purge.
What is requirement traceability matrix?
A grid that links produce requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
What does requirements documentation tell you?
Describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project.
The planned work is contained within the lowest level of WBS components, which are called _______
Work package
What is rolling wave planning?
An iterative planning technique in which the work ca be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while the work in the future is planned at a higher level.
