PT M1 - Vocab/Components Flashcards
A Management Style -
When you carry out repetitive actions that are always the same and that repeat every year in order to ensure the correct functioning of the organization.
Operations Management
A Management Style -
A group of related projects
Program Management
A Management Style -
A group of programs, projects, and subsidiary portfolios grouped together in order to facilitate organization objectives
Portfolio Management
A Management Style -
Every project is individual in nature and always includes a level of uncertainty
Project Management
A tool to determine how to communicate during a project.
The Communications Matrix
This tool details each of the stakeholders, the communications that there should be between them, and how this communication should be carried out. Among the stakeholders it is important to identify who is responsible for communication with whom, and how this communication should be carried out.
For example, a communication like a monthly performance report should be carried out by email from the management team and should be directed to the client, the sponsor, and a representative of the financial entity
A condition or current situation that can impact the project’s objectives. Describes something current, not something in the future.
An Issue
An example of this would be if two workers on a project argue several times over technical disagreements, affecting the performance of the production of the component
This document involves developing a detailed description of the project and the product and describes what the final project needs to contain as well as the design of the project.
The Project Scope
Someone who is assigned within a company to lead a project.
This person is responsible for the project’s success and will receive support from the sponsor, who is above this person in the company’s hierarchy.
The Project Manager
This professional has a much higher level of responsibility.
They will have the sponsors and project managers under their control to ensure that their organization works correctly.
The Manager of a Company
The professional in charge of obtaining commission from clients. This person’s job is usually finished once the assignment is given to the company.
The Salesperson
Someone who provides resources and support to a project and is responsible for facilitating its success.
This person is above the project manager in the company’s hierarchy
The Sponsor
An uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, will have an impact on the objectives of the project.
A Risk
Factors that are included in the scheduling process and considered as real, true, and correct without need for proof.
An Assumption
It is important to monitor these factors to update the schedule as soon as you have new information through the use of an Assumption Log.
This document and calculation is made up of the project’s costs, which have been approved by the key stakeholders (the client, the sponsor, the investors).
With this budget, the project manager should be able to successfully complete the project.
The Cost Baseline
Defined in the planning stage, after the project charter is created at the start of the project.
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These are costs that have a direct relationship with the production of the project deliverables and can be assigned directly to a production element.
For example, when you are developing software, the cost of the developers working on a specific functionality can be described as a ____ cost
Direct Costs
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These are costs that cannot be directly assigned to a deliverable but have an impact on the project as a whole.
For example, in a construction project, the cost of the tow truck that provides support for all of the project’s deliverables (including brickwork, structure, roofing, etc.) would be considered an _____ cost.
Indirect Costs
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This is an amount of money assigned to the project in case the identified risks occur and become contingencies.
This reserve allows the project manager to respond to the contingencies that may occur in the project.
If part of this reserve has not been used by the end of the project, it will be returned to the client.
Contingency Reserve
This reserve is calculated by the project manager and approved by the key stakeholders
This document recognizes the existence of the project within the company, gives authority to the project manager to carry it out, and describes the project’s limits.
In this document, a business analyst considers the client’s request, reviews the project’s viability, and creates the documents that describe this viability: the business case and the benefit management plan.
Once it is signed by the sponsor, the project has begun. After this, if all the parties are in agreement, the project is formalized through a contract.
Project Charter
Normally the project manager helps to write the project charter.
This document describes the Project’s Kickoff Documents: the contract and business viability report.
This document includes commitments, right, and obligations established between the client who commissions the project, and the project management company that will carry out the project.
The Contract
This document describes when and how the project’s benefits will be obtained, measured, and monitored.
The Benefits Management Plan
1 of 2 ways Procurement Management can be organized-
The organization has a procurement department that supports all the organization’s projects.
Centralized
1 of 2 ways Procurement Management can be organized-
The organization assigns a procurement owner for each project that is being developed. This expert joins the project management team and is dedicated full time to that project.
Decentralized
Is the potential return of a project that you turn down. To calculate this measure, you use the Estimated Monetary Value (EMV) tool.
Opportunity Cost
EMV is obtained by multiplying the benefit of each project by the chance of the benefit occurring (the probability). The project that has the highest EMV will be the project with the greatest opportunity cost.
A theory that describes the motivational priorities of human behavior.
This hierarchy is broken down into five levels based on the types of needs that each individual has.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
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This is the search for what makes you feel comfortable with your own being, such as achieving personal goals or challenges.
Self-Actualization Needs (Top level)
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This is the need to be valued for what you do, whether in a professional or personal environment
Esteem Needs (4th level from bottom)
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This means feeling like you fit in and belong to a group, whether it be with work colleagues, friends, family, or a partner.
Social Needs (3rd level from bottom)
1 of 5 levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs -
These needs are related to the safety of having a house, economic stability, health, etc.
Safety Needs (2nd level from bottom)
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These are strictly related to the survival of a person, like breathing, eating, drinking, keeping warm, etc.
Physiological Needs (Bottom
A Company Organizational Structure -
In this type of company, work is done, above all, by operations and the company’s separate departments are in charge of evaluating and distributing their resources. It is difficult to easily recognize a project and the project manager role has little authority.
Functional Company
An example of a _____ organization could be a chain of supermarkets. This type of organization does not have projects. They carry out separate and repetitive tasks over a long period of time, for example: logistics, sales, administration, and purchasing, which means it is easy for them to structure their company into _____ departments
A Company Organizational Structure -
Projects are clearly and explicitly recognized, all the workers are organized by projects, and it is easy for the project manager to obtain resources.
An example of a _____ company is an architect studio, where work is organized by projects.
Projectized Company
A Company Organizational Structure -
Combines the projectized and functional structures. In this type of company, projects and project managers are recognized and, at the same time, there are functional departments that provide support to the different projects.
An example of a ____ company is an urban infrastructure construction company that carries out work in projects but also has a significant number of operations that require well-defined departments.
Matrix Company
A Company Organizational Structure -
This company organizational structure is completely projectized and only works in projects.
Agile Company
This type of meeting should not last longer than 15 minutes and be dedicated to answering three questions:
What did you do yesterday?
What are you going to do today?
And are there any impediments in your way?
Daily Stand Up Meetings
This type of meeting discusses how the team worked during the previous sprint or iteration so that, in the next work cycle, you can improve the processes and interactions as much as possible.
Retrospective Meetings
Data that is represented digitally or on paper.
Work Performance Report
This thing is made up of observations, calculations, measurements, and other raw information that is gathered during the projects development and which is used to generate the project information.
Data
This is a document the project manager would use to assign an individual as being responsible for resolving an issue, with a set due date.
Issue Log
If this responsible individual does not resolve the issue, then the project manager would have to intervene.
A 4 level established hierarchy of who should be in charge of approving or rejecting suggested changes based on the impact of each change.
Change Management Process
1 of 4 levels in the Change Request Hierarchy -
This group is a formally appointed group where each of the project stakeholders should be represented.
If a change affects the project’s baselines, it must be approved by this group.
The Change Control Board (CBB)
1 of 4 levels in the Change Request Hierarchy -
If a change affects the company’s objectives with respect to the project, it should be reviewed by this person, who is the stakeholder within the company who authorizes the project’s go-ahead.
Sponsor
1 of 4 levels in the Change Request Hierarchy -
If the change does not affect the project baselines or the company’s objectives, but it does affect the project’s contingency reserves, it should be approved or rejected by this person.
Project Manager
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If there are changes in management or in the work approach that do not have an impact on the scope, schedule, or cost of the project, this group can handle these changes directly.
Project Team
1 of 3 Key Stakeholders -
The agent that commissions the project and that details their needs and expectations. The project is designed to respond to these requirements.
The Client
In the hierarchy of project management, the client is above the project manager. This is because the client has significant power over the project, and their actions can impact the project’s development.
1 of 3 Key Stakeholders -
High-level representative(s) of the company carrying out the project and are responsible for approving the project’s viability.
The Sponsor
1 of 3 Key Stakeholders -
This person or groups of people who release funds to allow the project to be carried out.
They usually monitor the project to make sure that their investment is being used for the agreed upon actions.
The Entity that Finances the Project (Investors)