Integration Flashcards

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What is the purpose of integration management?

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To Pull all the pieces of a project together into a cohesive whole - the processes, people, and goals for which the project was undertaken

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What is the Develop Project Charter process

What are the outputs

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Creating the project charter, which involves planning hte project at a high level

Outputs: Project Charter and Assumption Log

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What is included in a project Charter

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Project Title and Description
Project manager assigned and authority level
Business Case
Preassigned resources
Key Stakeholder list
Overall Project Risks
Assumptions
Constraints
Approval Requirements

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In an agile environment, where would scope, schedule, and risk plans be incorporated?

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In the product backlog and release roadmaps

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What is a project Life Cycle

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Describes the phases of work on a project to produce the deliverables

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What happens during a management review?

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Management and stakeholders will compare project progress to what was planned and identify needed changes to any of the management plans

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What is tailoring and when is it done?

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Determining the extent to which processes need to be used, based on the needs of the project

It’s part of developing the project management plan during project planning

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Name the individual management plans

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Scope
Schedule
Cost
Quality
Resources
Risk
Stockholders
Procurement
Resources
Communications

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What is the purpose of baselines?

What three elements make up the performance Measurement baseline

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Used to analyze and report project performance

Consists of Schedule, Cost, Scope

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What is included in a project management plan

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Project Life Cycle
Tailoring
Development Approach
Management Reviews
Individual Management Plans
Performance Measurement Baseline
Requirements management plan
Change Management Plan
Configuration Management Plan

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What is the purpose of the requirements management plan

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IT defines how requirements will be gathered, analyzed, prioritized, evaluated, and documented, as well as how the requirements will be managed and controlled throughout the project

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What is a change Management Plan

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Describes how changes will be managed and controlled

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What is the Develop Project Management Plan Process

What is its Output

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Process of creating and project management plan that is bought into, approved, realistic, and formal

Output: Project Management Plan

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How do the project manager and product owner ensure that the project plan is viable?

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VIA the prioritization of the backlog and through a time-phased product roadmap

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What are project documents? Name some examples of project Documents

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Any project-related documents that aren’t part of the project management plan.

Project Charter
Assumption Log
Team Charter
Contracts
Agreements
Requirements
Schedule
Risk Register

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What is a kickoff Meeting

When does it occur

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a Meeting of the key parties involved in the project to announce the start of the project, to ensure everyone is familiar with its details - including objectives and roles and responsibilities - and to ensure a commitment to the project from everyone

It takes place before the Develop Project Management Plan Process is completed

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What are the key outputs of the Direct and Manage Project Work Process

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Issue Log
Deliverables
Work Performance Data
New Change Requests
Updates to Project Management Plan and Project Documents

18
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What is a work authorization system?

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It keeps the team and functional managers informed of upcoming work assignments and milestones

19
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What is required for successful knowledge management

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An organizational Culture of trust in which the project manager and stakeholders exchange knowledge without fear and judgement

20
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What are the types of KNowledge

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2 Types

Explicit Knowledge is fact-based and can be easily communicated through words and symbols

Tacit knowledge may provide context or explanation to explicit knowledge. It includes emotions, experience, and ability, which are difficult to communicate in words and symbols but can be learned.

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What is osmotic communication

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Phenomena of communication and knowledge sharing being facilitated and enhanced simply by team members being in proximity to one another

22
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Describe the function of lessons learned as an input as an output to project work

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As an input, lessons learned help improve the current project. As an output they help make the organization better.

23
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What are the key outputs of the Monitor and Control Project Work process

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Change Requests
Work Performance Reports
Updates to the project Artifacts

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Describe the 3 main categories of change requests

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Corrective Action: Actions taken to bring expected future project performance in line with the project management plan

Preventative Action: Actions taken to Deal with anticipated or possible deviations from the performance measurement baseline and other metrics

Defect Repair: Rework required when a component of the project does not meet requirements

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In an AGILE environment, when does the team implement changes?

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Accommodating changes in an agile environment is assumed to be an ongoing part of the project management process

26
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What is a key focus of integrated change control?

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To Look at the impact of each change on all the project constraints, the value of which is to reduce the potential risk of not fulfilling

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What is a change control board?

Who might be on the Change Control Board

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The group responsible for reviewing and analyzing change request in accordance with the change management plan for the project

May include the project manager, customer experts, sponsor, functional managers, and others

Assume that most plan-based projects have change control boards

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What steps are involved in the process for making changes to a project?

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Evaluate the impact

Identify Options

Get the change Request Approved Internally

Get Customer Buy-In

29
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Who has decision-making authority for making major changes in an agile or hybrid environments?

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The product owner; although everyday decisions and minor changes are managed within the team

30
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What dose the project manager need to do during the Close Project of Phase Process

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Get Formal Acceptance of project

Issue Final Report

Issue final Lessons Learned

Index/Archive all Project Records

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What is the definition of Transition

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Handing off the product to the customer or operations