Introduction: Org Influence, Project Lifecyle and PM Processes

Question 1

A collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives.

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Portfolio Management

Question 2

The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives.

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Project Manager

Question 3

Internal and external environmental factors that surround or influence a project’s success.

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Enterprise Environmental Factors

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A comprehensive, consistent method of controlling the project and ensuring its success.

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Project Governance

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Where should project governance be described?

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In the project management plan

Question 6

A phase to phase relationship where the phase starts prior to the completion of the previous one.

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Sequential relationship

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A phase to phase relationship where the phase starts prior to the completion of the previous one.

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Overlapping relationship

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A phase to phase relationship where only one phase is planned at any given time, and the planning for the next is carried out as work progresses on the current phase and deliverables.

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Iterative relationship

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External organizations that have a special relationship with the enterprise and provide specialized expertise or fill a specified role such as installation, customization, training, or support

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Business Partners

Question 10

The entire value of the business, the total sum of all tangible and intangible elements. This concept is unique to each organization.

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Business Value

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Persons or organizations that will approve and manage the project’s product, service, or result.

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Customers

Question 12

Persons or organizations that will use the project’s product, service, or results.

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Users

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Person or group that provides the resources and support for the project and is accountable for enabling success.

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Sponsor

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Also called vendors, suppliers, or contractor, are external companies that enter into a contractual agreement to provide components or services necessary for the project.

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Sellers

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Include any or all process related assets, from any or all orgnaizations involved in the project that can be used to influence the project’s success.

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Organization Process Assets

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Individuals who play a management role within an administrative or functional area of the business.

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Functional Manager

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An organizational structure in which each employee has one clear manager. Staff members are grouped hierarchically by specialty.

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Functional Organization

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A set of interrelated actions and activities performed to achieve a pre-specified product, result, or service.

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Process

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Organizational structure where team members are often collocated, most of the resources are involved with project work, and the project managers have a good deal of independence and authority.

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Projectized Organization

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Refers to various organizatinoal forms that create temporary systems for carrying out their work. Can be created by different types of organizations

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Project based organization (PBO)

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A system of managerial leadership that defines individual managerial responsibilities in terms of corporate objectives

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Management by Objectives (MBO)

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An organizational structure in which the project manager shares repsonsibility with the functional managers for assigning priorities and for directing the work of the individuals assigned to the project. Contains a blend of functional and projectized characteriztics.

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Matrix Organization

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An organizational approach that treats many aspects of ongoing operations as projects with the intention of applying project management techniques to these aspects.

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Management by Projects

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An organizational function performing the ongoing execution of activities that produce the same product or provide a repetitive service

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Operations

Question 25

An enterprise environmental factor which can affetc the availability of resources

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Organizational structure

Question 26

A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually

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Program

Question 27

The centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program’s strategic objectives and benefits.

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Program Management

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A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result

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Project

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A document issued by senior management that formally authorizes the existence of a project.

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Project Charter

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A document that authorizes the project manager to apply organizational resources to the project

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Project Charter

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A method where distinguishing factors are broadly defined at the start of the project and become more explicit and detailed as the project team develops more comprehensive knowledge of the project.

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Progressive Elaboration

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A collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and nubmer are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project, the nature of the project itself, and its area of application.

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Project Life Cycle

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The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements

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Project Management

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The members of the organization who are directly involved in project management activities

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Project Management Team

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Divisions within a project where extra control is needed to effectively manage the completion of a major deliverable

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Project Phase

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An organizational body or entity assigned various reponsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain

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Project Management Office (PMO)

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The group of people that are performing the work of the project but are not necessarily involved with the management of the project

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Project Team

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Any organizational structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities and to direct the work of individuals assigned to the project

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Projectized Organization

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A government-imposed requirement, which specifies product, process, or service characteristics, including the applicable administrative provisions, with which compliance is mandatory.

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Regulation

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A term used to describe progressive detailing of the project plan, thus recognizing that planning is an iterative and ongoing process

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Rolling Wave Planning

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Individuals and organizations who are involved in or may be affected by project activities or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by the performance or completion of the project

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Stakeholder

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A document established by consensus and approved by a recognized body that provides, for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines, or characteristics for activities or their results, aimed at achievement of the optimum degree of order in a given context.

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Standard

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A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization at the right time and in the proper sequence.

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Work authorization system