Practitioner - Day 1 Notes Flashcards

1
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The 6 Aspects

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Time
Cost
Quality
scope
Risk
Benefits

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Between the Pre-project and Initiation Stage there is a …

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Authorization from Project Direction/Owner

Project Manager cannot authorize next stage

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3
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Agile Manifesto

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Individuals and Interactions - Over processes and tools

Working Software - Over comprehensive documentation

Customer Collaboration - Over contract negotiation

Responding to change -

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4
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The most well know agile methods and approaches

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Table 2.1 in book.

Kanban

Lean Startup

Scrum

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5
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Situation dictates the types of process

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Empirical
- Frequent inspection and adaptation
- Processes are accepted as imperfect

Predictive or deterministic
- Work needs to be understood before the start of the project. For example, building a house, you work from pre-determined steps.

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6
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Agile Mindset
4 Agile Values
12 Agile Principles

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Unlimited number of practices
- SCRUM
- XP
- Agile PM
- Prince2 Agile

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7
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Timeboxing can be described as

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a technique - ref table 2.1 in book

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8
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Agile approaches

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9
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Blending Prince2 and Agile

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Structure of prince 2,

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9
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eight guidence points

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Table 3.4

Prince 2 2009 onwards is enabled for use with agile
Prince 2 can be used in any type of project, not just waterfall or IT
IT-only

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9
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PID

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project initiation document

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9
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Kanban

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What we have to do.

What we’re doing.

What is done.

You can use software, or posit notes.

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10
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Fix/Flex

Time

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Zero Tollerance

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11
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Fix/Flex

Cost

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Zero Tollerance

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12
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Fix/Flex

Quality

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Fix/Flex

Not all acceptance criteria and quality criteria are of equal importance, so they can be prioritized.
Project product description

Zero tolerance for the customer’s quality expectations and acceptance criteria that are essential.
Tolerance may be used for the customer’s quality expectations and acceptance criteria that are desirable but not essential.
Product descriptions (in general)

Zero tolerance for the quality criteria that are essential.
Tolerance may be used for the quality criteria that are desirable but not essential.

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13
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Fix/Flex

Scope

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Not everything the project aims to create is of equal importance, so they can be prioritized.
Zero tolerance for products that are essential.
Tolerance may be used for products that are desirable but not essential.

14
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Fix/Flex

Benefits

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Zero tolerance for the level that is defined as ‘minimum viability’ in the business case.
Tolerance may be used above the level that is defined as ‘minimum viability’ in the business case.

15
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Fix/Flex

Risk

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Zero tolerance for risks above the level that the project board decides must be escalated. Tolerance may be used for risks that are below this level.

16
Q

User stories

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Who

What

Why

17
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Guidence on change

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Requirement definition can be binary or like a spectrum,
good management can lessen the impact of change.

so can good configuration management

empower self organizing teams at the delivery level hand change dynamically within defined tolerances