Lesson 2: Start the Project

Question 1

Salience Model

Answer 1

The salience model is a method used to classify stakeholders and decide who matters more by assessing their power, legitimacy, and urgency. The model allows the project manager to decide the relative salience of a given stakeholder (PMBOK 7th edition, page 171).

Question 2

Scrum Meeting

Answer 2

Scrum meeting is time-boxed at 15 minutes; it does not change depending on the length of a sprint or size of a team.

Question 3

Backlog Refinement

Answer 3

During backlog refinement, the team helps the product owner create or review emergent product backlog items as well as progressively refine larger ones. The team also estimates the size of product backlog items and helps the product owner prioritize them. As a general rule, the development team should allocate up to 10% of its time in each sprint to assisting the product owner with refinement activities (Essential Scrum by Rubin, Kenneth S, page 106).

Question 4

Interation/sprint backlog

Answer 4

Expected to burn down during duration; the work does not carry over. 1-4 weeks (typically 2 weeks) (most common)

Backlog refers to agile.

Question 5

Product/ Project Backlog

Answer 5

Overall backlog - anything that has not been done. Prioritized and organized based on the value that each item brings to the product and project.
Backlog refers to agile.

Question 6

Directions of Influence

Answer 6

Classifies stakeholders according to their type of influence on the project: upward, downward, outward, sideward.

Question 7

Integration Management

Answer 7

Team members determine how plans and components should be integrated in order to deliver the final work. pg. 91

Question 8

Scrum Activities

Answer 8

Inspect progress toward the spring= Sprint Execution
Presents the projects performance to the stakeholders= Sprint review
Discusses the improvements that can be applied in the upcoming sprint- Sprint Planning
Provers estimates of the required efforts to complete user stories- sprint planning

Question 9

On-Demand( Kanban/ Lean-based)

Answer 9

Does not work well in projects with complex dependency relationships.
The main aspects of the Kanban method are: visualizing the workflow, limiting work in progress, managing flow, making process policies explicit, implementing feedback loops, and improving collaboratively. Close or osmotic communication is one of the crystal methodology’s characteristics (Agile Practice guide, pages 104, 107).

Question 10

Rough Order of Magnitude

Answer 10

(-25 to+75%)

Question 11

Cycle Time

Answer 11

The time it takes to complete a task from start to finish.

Question 12

Kanban

Answer 12

A lean method for managing and improving work.

Question 13

KAIZEN

Answer 13

A quality management philosophy that consists of the continuous integration of gradual improvements to enhance business performance and efficiency.

Question 14

Estimation technique- Bottom-up Estimating

Answer 14

Used in the predictive lifecycle to estimate a project cost r duration by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the WBS. Predictive approach; Agile.

Question 15

Cost of Non-conformance

Answer 15

Two Categories
Internal failure cost: incurred when defects are detected internally.
External failure cost: incurred when defects are discovered after the deliverables have been shipped to customers. p. 89

Question 16

Destructive Testing Loss

Answer 16

An example of the cost of conformance.