PMP Exam REVIEW Flashcards
What’s a Gap Analysis?
To find out the existing shortcomings, who needs training and increased knowledge, and who is at a good level.
Personas technique
Created to represent a user type that might use a site, brand, or product similarly.
Who helps produce the project charter?
The charter should be produced by the team, or at least with the team’s active participation.
The project manager decides on?
The overall direction of the projects
The product owner decides on?
The scope
The product owner is responsible for?
Prioritizing user stories and making decisions about the work.
What is risk mitigation?
The action is taken to reduce the probability of occurrence and/or impact of a threat.
What’s a sprint retrospective?
A meeting of the team members facilitated by the scrum master for the team to identify its own improvements.
Reviews the teams processes and practices and is used to identify ways the team can improve its performance, collaboration.
Retrospective looks at the qualitative (people’s feelings) and quantitative (measurements) data, then using that data to find root causes, designing countermeasures and developing action plans.
What happens in a sprint review?
the product is reviewed and improvements are identified.
What does the benefits management plan include?
The target benefits, such as net present value calculations, timeframe for realizing benefits, and the metrics associated with the benefits (strategic alignment).
What is reframing through diversity mean?
Complexity Management: Complex systems often benefit from viewing them from diverse perspectives.
In agile projects, the project deliverables will be?
will be reviewed and accepted incrementally throughout the project.
The project team charter includes?
The project team values, agreements, and operating guidelines, and establishes clear expectations regarding acceptable behavior by project team members.
The scrum master is?
The coach of the development team and process owner in the scrum framework.
Removes obstacles, facilitates productive events and defends the team from disruptions.
What is the requirements tractability matrix?
It’s a grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
What are the benefits of a hybrid project management approach?
provides the opportunity for early revenue generation through incremental delivery as requested by the sponsor while allowing the project team members to work independently with individually assigned tasks.
What is decomposition used for?
dividing and subdividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller, more manageable parts.
What is the Ishikawa diagram technique?
An effective way to indentify the root cause.
What is the 5 Whys technique?
Identifying the root cause of a problem by repeatedly using the question Why. The answer for each Why becomes the driver for identifying the next Why. It provides a visual representation of the problem being analyzed.
What are the benefits of negotiation skills?
Resolves conflicts to ensure success is achieved with minimal risk to project objectives and resolves various issues in projects, organizations and the business domain.
What is the payback period used to determine?
It’s used to determine the time needed to recover an investment. And is particularly useful to assess how long it will take to recoup the initial investment in the project.
What are the three scrum artifacts?
Increments, product backlog and sprint backlog
Who is the only person who has the authority to cancel the iteration?
The product owner.
What is the achievement theory?
People are motivated by the need for achievement, power, or affiliation.
In agile, on average, what range of productivity loss occurs?
20 percent to 40 percent
What does set-based design involve?
Set-based design involves investigating multiple designs or alternatives early in the project to reduce uncertainty. Explores options, consider trade-offs, and learn from working with various alternatives.
What are leading indicators used for?
Used to predict future project performance and enable proactive actions. Providing early warning signs that can help project managers take corrective measures before issues become critical.
What is a risk trigger?
Triggers are warning signs of an impending risk event (events or conditions that indicate that a risk is about to occur).
What does the Return on Investment measure?
Measures the amount of financial return compared to the cost of an investment.
What does a mood chart track?
Tracks the mood or reactions of a group of very important stakeholders.
What is impact mapping?
Impact mapping is a strategic planning method used to create a visual roadmap for aligning product development with an organization’s strategic goals.
To make sure that necessary measures are in place for successful launch the project manager should be?
Determining and aligning performance indicators that will help in assessing successful delivery.
What kind of approach/theory is Theory X?
Theory X assumes that individuals work primarily for income and are not highly ambitious. Theory X is a hand-on and top-down approach.
What do project management information systems ensure?
PMIS can ensure that stakeholders can easily retrieve the information they need in a timely way.
During which project stage are risk and stakeholders ability to influence project outcomes the highest?
Initiating stage is where stakeholders have the greatest ability to influence outcomes of the project. Risk is highest during this stage because of the high degree of unknown factors.
What happens during the iteration review meeting?
The product owner receives new requirements from the stakeholders and includes them in the product backlog
In agile, in order to accelerate the sharing of information within and across the organization, what method would you use?
By promoting aggressive transparency
What does the resource management plan provide?
The resource management plan provides guidance on various aspects of team development including disciplinary actions as a result of team performance assessments.
What does the issue log contain?
The project manager should first document the customer’s complaints and critical issues in the issue log.
What are the benefits of having T-Shaped people?
Helps in creating a cross-functional team, allows teams to self-organize, helps in forming smaller teams