Plan And manage scope Flashcards
Scope Management Plan
A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined, developed, monitored. controlled, and validated.
Project Requirements
The actions, processes, or other conditions the project needs to meet e.g. milestone dates, contractual obligations, constraints, etc.
Product Requirements
The agreed-upon conditions or capabilities of a product, service, or outcome the project is designed to satisfy.
Product Scope
The work performed to deliver a product, service or result with the specified features and functions. Project scope may include product scope.
Product Scope
The features and functions that characterize a product, service, or result.
Enterpise Environmental Factors (EEF)
Conditions (internal or external) not under the control of the project team, that influence, constrain, or direct the project at organizational, portfolio, program, or project level.
Organizatinal Process Assets (OPA)
Plans, processes, policies, procedures, and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization. These assets influence the management of the project.
Document Analysis
A technique used to gain project requirements from current documentation evaluation.
Focus Group
An elicitation technique that brings together prequalified stakeholdets and subject matter experts to elatn about their expectations and attitudes about a proposed product, service, or tesult.
Questionnaries and Surveys
Written format of questions designed to quickly capture Information from many respondents.
Benchmarking
The comparison of actual or planned products, processes, and practices to those of comparable organizations to identify best practices, generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis for measuring performance.
Interviews
a form or informal approach to elicit information from stakeholders by talking with them directly.
Observations
A technique used to gain knowledge of a specific job role, task, or function in order to understand and determine project requirements.
Facilitated Worskshops
Organized working sessions held by project managers to determine project requirements and to get all stakeholders together to agree on project outcomes.
Context Diagrams
Visual depiction of product scope showing a business system (process, equipment, computer system, etc.) and how people and other systems interact with it.
Storyboarding
A prototyping method using visuals or
images to illustrate a process or represent a project outcome.
Prototyping
Assists in the process of obtaining early feedback on requirements by providing a working model of the expected product before building.
Requirements Management Plan
A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed, documented and managed.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Links products requirements drom their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Project Scope Statement
The description of the project scope, major deliverables, assumptions, and constraints.
Product Analysis
A tool to define scope by asking questions about a product and forming answers to describe the use, characteristics, and other relevant aspects of the product.
Work Breakdown Structure
A hierarchical decomposition of a project’s total scope of work to accomplish project objectives and create the required deliverables.
Code of Accounts
Numbering system tgat uniquely identifies each component of the WBS.
WBS Dictionary
Provides detailed deliverable, activity, and scheduling ibformation about each component in the WBS.
Decomposition
A technique of dividing and subdividing the project scope abde deliverables into smaller more manageable parts.
Control Account
A management control point where scope budget, actual cost, and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Planning Package
A WBS component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.
Work Package
The work defined at the lowest level of the WBS for which cost and suratiob are estimated and managed.
Scope Baseline
Approved version of a scope statement, WBS, and its associated WBS dictionary, that can be changed using formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.
User Stories
Short descriptions of required functiobality tild fron user’s point of view.
