PMBOK Flashcards
Project Definition
A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.
Project Scope
Defined Objectives. Scope is progressively elaborated throughout the project life cycle.
Project Change
Project managers expect change and implement processes to keep change under control.
Project planning
Progressively elaborate high level information into detailed plans throughout the projects life cycle.
Project Management
Project managers manage the team to meet project objectives
Project monitoring
Monitor and control the work of producing products, services, or results that the project was undertaken to produce.
Project success
Success is measured by product and project quality, timeliness, budget compliance, and degree of customer satisfaction.
Program and portfolio management
Programs encompass many projects, portfolios encompass all.
Portfolio is strategic.
Operations management
Normally outside the scope of project management. Concerned with ongoing operations and efficiency.
Where does project management and operations management meet?
Developing a new product, improving operations, end of product life cycle, each close out phase.
Organizational project management (OPM)
Framework in which portfolio, program, and project management are integrated with organizational enablers to achieve strategic objectives.
Purpose of Organizational project management (OPM)
Make sure the organization undertakes the right projects and allocate critical resources appropriately.
Also makes sure everyone understands the strategic vision, initiatives, objectives, and deliverables.
Organizational Environmemt
Strategy> portfolio (value decisions) >programs and projects (results delivery)> operations (business value realization)>strategy
Project life cycle
Series of phases the project passes through before completion.
Project Phase
Collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or mor deliverables.
Phase gate
A review at the end of a phase in which a decision is made to continue to the next phase, continue modification, or to end a project.
Project management processes
A systematic series of activities directed toward causing an end result where one or more inputs will be acted upon to to create one or more outputs.
Project management process group
Logical grouping of project management tools, techniques, and outputs.
Includes; Initiating Planning Executing Monitoring Controlling Closing
Project management knowledge area
An identified area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes, practices, inputs, outputs, tools, and techniques.
Phase organization possibilities
Sequential, Iterative, Overlapping
Project Life Cycle Types
Predictive or Adaptive
Development life cycle
Within a project life cycle, one or more phases associated with the development of a product, service, or result.
Development life cycle types
Predictive, iterative, incremental, adaptive, hybrid
Predictive life cycle
Project scope, time and cost are developed in the early phases of the life cycle. Scope changes are carefully managed. Also referred to as waterfall life cycles.
Iterative life cycle
Project scope is determined early but time and cost estimates are routinely modified as understanding of the project increases.
Iterations develop the product through repeated cycles.
Incremental life cycle
Deliverable is produced through iterations that add functionality over time. Only complete after the final iteration
Adaptive life cycle
Agile, iterative, incremental. Scope is defined before the start of an iteration. Change driven.
Hybrid life cycle
Combination of predictive or adaptive. Elements that can be fixed are, elements that are not are not.
Product life cycle
Independent of the project. Phases involved in the evolution of a product all the way to retirement.