PPT. Notes - Vocab.

Question 1

Different activities that can be used to help identify a product or project objective.

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Group Creativity Techniques

Question 2

What does SAFe stand for?

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Scaled Agile Framework

Question 3

An individual, group, or organization that may affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by a decision, activity, or outcome of a project, program, or portfolio

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Stakeholder

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Our fundamental beliefs. They are the principles we use to define what is right and what is wrong.

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Values

Question 5

Represents schedule information where activities are listed on the vertical axis, dates are shown on the horizontal axis, and activity durations are shown as horizontal bars placed according to start and finish dates.

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Gantt Chart

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Defined as the totality of features and characteristics of a product that bears on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs.

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Quality

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A technique used to generate and collect multiple ideas related to project and product requirements.

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Brainstorming

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A component of the project, program, or portfolio management plan that describes how, when, and by whom information about the project will be administered and disseminated.

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Communications Management Plan

Question 9

When your team has increasing amounts of work or tasks but is not currently completing the tasks that they already have assigned. Signals that your team may not have the resources that they need.

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Bottlenecking

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A hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables. Each descending level of this thing represents an increasingly detailed definition of the project work.

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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Question 11

This means the teams that develop the solutions may work with Scrum or Kanban

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Hybrid Approaches

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A grouping of projects, programs, subsidiary portfolios, and operations managed to achieve a strategic objective

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Project Portfolio

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A repository in which outputs of risk management processes are recorded.

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Risk Register

Question 14

An output of a schedule model that assigns activities with planned dates, durations, milestones, and resources

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Project Schedule

Question 15

Used to estimate the minimum project duration and determine the amount of schedule flexibility on the logical network paths within the schedule model.

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Critical Path Method

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An assessment process having multiple alternatives with an expected outcome in the form of future actions. These can be used to generate, classify, and prioritize product requirements.

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Group Decision Making Techniques

Question 17

The process of ensuring that the project schedule is set up, maintained, and managed accordingly.

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Schedule Management

Question 18

The description of the project scope, major deliverables, and exclusions.

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Project Scope Statement

Question 19

The process of ensuring that a project is completed within the approved budget.

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Cost Management

Question 20

A list of work items identified by the Scrum team to be completed during the Scrum sprint.

This document comes from the product backlog, but it contains only that item, or those items, that can be completed during each sprint.

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Sprint Backlog

Question 21

Involves defining action steps to be taken if an identified risk event should occur

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Contingency Plan

Question 22

An analytical tool used to identify, solve, and evaluate a problem in an organization or project.

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RAID Analysis

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What does RAID Analysis stand for?

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• Risk - Assumption - Issues - Dependencies

Question 24

Making happen what you want to make happen.

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Management

Question 25

This chart will show you **trends over any given period of time.** However, it is not really useful to use averages to make predictions for future events. This does give you useful information for how the work is trending.

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Average Cycle Time Chart

Question 26

A document that provides detailed deliverable, activity, and scheduling information about **each component in the WBS.**

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WBS Dictionary

Question 27

The process of determining, documenting, and **managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives.**

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Requirements Gathering a.k.a. Collect Requirements Process

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**The work performed to deliver** a product, service, or results with **specified features and functions**. Involves the **overall plan** to determine specific goals, tasks, costs, and deadlines **for the project.**

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Project Scope

Question 29

Techniques used by project managers to *identify differences among employees* and team members and *mitigate these issues*

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Conflict Resolution

Question 30

The steps used to **identify a problem and brainstorm the best possible solution** to mitigate the issue

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Problem Solving

Question 31

What does SRM stand for?

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Service Request Manager

Question 32

This Chart tells you about the **amount of waste you have in your system.** It measures how **much time you spend actually working on an item versus the time the item is sitting idle** in your Kanban board.

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Flow Efficiency Chart

Question 33

What does FDD stand for?

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Feature Driven Development

Question 34

The **statements provided by the stakeholder** which **explain business problems or business** needs that must be addressed.

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Requirements

Question 35

This technique examines the project from each of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats perspectives. Starts with the identification of strengths and weaknesses of the company/project, then identifies any opportunities that may arise from strengths and threats that may arise from the weaknesses.

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SWOT Analysis

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Measures the **total amount of work delivered in a certain time period.** This metric only measures completed work items, nothing that is still in progress.

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Throughput

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A set of **conditions or rules** that are **required to be met** by the Product Owner/Stakeholders **before deliverables are accepted.**

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Acceptance Criteria

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What does RACI Analysis stand for?

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- Responsible - Accountable - Consult - Inform

Question 39

This document provides a strategic overview of the major elements of a project.

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Project Roadmap

Question 40

The work defined at the lowest level of the work breakdown structure for which **cost and duration are estimated and managed.**

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Work Package

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A significant point or event in a project. Can be both tangible and intangible occurrences within the project, such as meeting small goals or completing entire projects.

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Milestone

Question 42

A **grid** that **links product requirements** from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.

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Requirements Traceability Matrix

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Project Management involving people from **within** the organization.

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Internal Project Management

Question 44

A work breakdown structure component with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.

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Planning Package

Question 45

The approved version of a scope statement, work breakdown structure (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.

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Scope Baseline

Question 46

Helps to determine how work will flow throughout the project and who will distribute the work

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Organizational Structure

Question 47

Your **specific actions or steps** to **accomplish your goals.**

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Tactics

Question 48

What does SDM stand for?

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Service Delivery Manager

Question 49

The document that describes how the project will be executed, monitored, controlled, and closed.

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Project Management Plan

Question 50

What does XP stand for?

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Extreme Programming

Question 51

An **ordered list of user-centric requirements** that a team maintains for a product. It is compiled of **all the things that must be done to complete the whole project.** It **breaks down each of the items on the list into a series of steps** that helps the development team.

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Product Backlog

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Any **unique and verifiable** product, result, or capability **to perform a service** that is **produced to complete** a process, phase, or project

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Deliverable

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Project Management involving **bringing in outside specialists**.

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External Project Management

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Used to **collect and analyze project data** so you can **manage the project’s success**

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Project Controls

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The process of identifying, assessing, responding to, monitoring, and reporting risks.

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Risk Management

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The first section of your plan. This is where you write down a description, that describes the final deliverable in terms the customer can understand.

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Scope

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An organization’s personality, comprised of assumptions, beliefs, values, norms, and tangible signs (artifacts), or organization members and their behaviors.

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Project Culture

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A common type of responsibility assignment matrix that **defines the involvement of stakeholders** in project activities

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RACI Chart

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The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.

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Project Manager

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A matrix that **compares current and desired stakeholder engagement levels**. This allows the project manager and team to make a decision about which stakeholders to use on the project.

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Stakeholder Matrix

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A **hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work** to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables

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Work Breakdown Structure

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This diagram racks the **total number of tasks in progress each day.** It is called “cumulative” because the values accumulate over time and are all shown on one chart together.

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Cumulative Flow Diagram

Question 63

This document provides a high-level **summary of the release schedule** (typically three to six months) based on the product roadmap and the product vision for the product’s evolution. Takes the strategy into an actionable plan built on specific features and enhancements.

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Release Plan

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A series of phases that **represent the evolution of a product**, from concept through delivery, growth, maturity, and to retirement

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Product Life Cycle

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The approved version of the time-phased project budget, excluding any management reserves, which can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results

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Cost Baseline

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A form of project life cycle in which the project scope, time, and cost are determined in the early phases of the life cycle.

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Predictive Life Cycle

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The **series of phases that a project passes through** from its start to its completion.

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Project Life Cycle

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Applying the values that we hold to what we do in our dealings within our business, families, and society

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Ethics

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A person or group who provides resources and support for the project, program or portfolio for enabling success

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Project Sponsor

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A **decomposition technique** that *helps trace an undesirable effect back to its root cause*

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Cause and Effect Diagram

Question 71

A document issued by the project imitator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities. This document states the objectives of the project, as well as goals, project team members & responsibilities, stakeholders, milestones, budgets, risks, and constraints.

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Project Charter

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What does DSDM stand for?

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Dynamic Systems Development Method

Question 73

The approved version of the schedule model that is used as a basis for comparison to the actual results

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Schedule Baseline

Question 74

A document that provides detailed deliverable, activity, and scheduling information about each component in the WBS.

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Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary

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An **overarching plan or set of goals** defining where you want to go.

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Strategy

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Is the organizational framework whose structure provides the policies, processes, procedures, and resources required.

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Quality Management

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

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Project Management

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These things range from functional to project-oriented, with a variety of matrix structures in between.

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Organizational Structures

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A component of the project management plan that establishes the change control board, documents the extent of its authority, and describes how the change control system will be implemented.

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Change Management Plan

Question 80

**Guiding a group** to reach a common goal.

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Leadership

Question 81

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

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Project

Question 82

This chart requires a bit of mathematical skill to interpret, but the purpose of this chart is to **visualize variation.** This variation is called common cause variation.

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Cycle Time Control Chart

Question 83

A **diagramming and calculation technique** for *evaluation of the implications of a chain of multiple options* in the presence of uncertainty

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Decision Tree

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What does NPS stand for?

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Net Promoter Score

Question 85

A diagram that models the restrictions of a project (scope, time, and cost)

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Triple Constraint Diagram

Question 86

A project document including the **identification, assessment, and classification of project stakeholders.** It also explains **how you will engage with different stakeholders** throughout the life of the project

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Stakeholder Register

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A documented **economic feasibility study** used to establish the validity of the benefits of a selected component lacking sufficient definition and that is used as a basis for the authorization of further project management activities. In other words, it is a way to explain **why you want and need to start your project**

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Business Case

Question 88

Determining how goods and services will be procured from the project, also known as acquisition strategies.

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Procurement

Question 89

A small piece of business value

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A Feature