Project Integration Mgmnt Flashcards
Project Sponsor
Responsible for funding
Statement of Work (SOW)
Description of products or services to be delivered by the project
- business need
- project scope description
- strategic plan
Business Case
Whether or not the project is worth the required investment
Contract
Input if project is being done by external customer
Project Charter
Authorizes PM to assign resources to project activities in order to achieve project objectives
Stakeholder Analysis
Technique of systematically gathering and analyzing quantities and qualitative to determined whose interests should have been taken into account throughout the project
Collect Requirements
Process of defining and documenting stakeholders needs to meet the project objectives.
Defining and managing customer expectations
Interviews
Approach to discover info from stakeholders by talking directly
Focus Groups
Moderator guided groups through interactive discussion
Facilitated Workshops
Quickly defines cross-functional requirements and reconciling stakeholder differences
Builds trust and fosters relationships
Faster tesolution
Brainstorming
Generate and collect ideas
Nominal Group Technique
Enhanced brainstorming with a voting process
Delphi Technique
Experts answer questionnaires
Idea Mapping
Brainstorming consolidated into a single map
Affinity Diagram
Ideas sorted into groups to review
Unanimity
Everyone agrees
Majority
Support of more than 50%
Plurality
Largest block in group decides even if a majority is not achieved
Dictatorship
1 individual makes the decisions
Prototype
Obtaining feedback on requirements by providing a working model
Requirements Documentation
How individual requirements meet the business need for the project
Requirements Management Plan
Documents how requirements will be analyzed and managed throughout the project
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Matrix that links requirements to their origin had traces them throughout the project life cycle
Define Scope
Process of developing a detailed description of the project and product
Scope Statement
Describes in detail the projects deliverables and work required to create them
Value Analysis
Understanding what stakeholders value from the project
Examples: Safety, usability, low cost
Value Engineering
Designing the solution of the lowest possible cost and satisfy need of stakeholders
System Engineering
How components come together in sequence
Project Scope Description
Progressively elaborated the characteristics of the product, service, or result described in the project charter or requirements documentation
Project Acceptance Criteria
Defines the process and criteria for accepting competed products, services or results
Project Deliverables
Outputs that compromise the product if service of the project, as well as results, reports and documentation
Project Exclusions
Generally identifies what’s excluded out if scope
Project Constraints
Limits to the team options
Example: predetermined budget or imposed dates
Project Assumptions
Assumptions associated with the project scope and impacts if they prove false
Direct and Manage Project Execution
Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the projects objectives.
Corrective Action
Documented direction for execution the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan
Preventative Action
Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks
Defect Repair
Documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either report the defect or completely replace the component.
Updates
Change to a formally controlled documentation, plans, etc.
Work Performance Information
Baseline/Target/Budget vs Action = Variance
Monitor and Control Project Work
Process of tracking, reviewing and regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives
Performing Integrated Change Control
Performing all reviewing change requests, approving changes, managing changes to deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents and project management plan.
During which phase should a project manager be assigned?
During the initiating process
