RMC Hot Topics 9th Edition Flashcards - Integration Management - Deck 2
What is included in a project charter?
- Project title and description
- Project manager assigned an authority level
- Business case
- Preassigned resources
- Key stakeholder list
- Stakeholder apartments as as known
- High-level product description and key deliverables
- High-level assumptions
- High-level constraints
- Links the project to the ongoing work of the organization
- Project approval requirements
- Overall project risks
- Project exit criteria
What is included in an assumption log?
An assumption log contains a list of all assumptions and constraints that relate to the project.
What is included in a project management plan?
- Project lifecycle
- Project management processes that will be used on the project
- Development approach
- Management reviews
- Knowledge area management plans
- Scope, schedule, and cost baselines
- Requirements management plan
- Change management plan
- Change control system
- Configuration management plan
- Configuration management system
What are baselines?
What three elements make up the performance measurement baseline?
The parts of the project management plan that are used to compare the projects actual performance against planned performance.
Schedule baseline
Scope baseline
Cost baseline
What is a change management plan?
The the change management plan describes how changes will be managed and controlled.
What is a configuration management system?
What is the purpose of a change control system?
Configuration management system: contains the organization’s standardized configuration management tools, processes, and procedures that can be used to track and control the evolution of the project documentation.
Change control system: To track and control changes including standardized forms, reports, processes, procedures, and software.
What is a configuration management plan?
A plan to make sure everyone knows what version of the scope, schedule, and other components of a project management plan are the latest versions.
It defines the naming conventions, the version control system, document storage and retrieval system, and how you will manage the changes to the documentation.
What are project documents?
Any project–related documents that aren’t part of the project management plan, including:
- Assumption Log
- Issue log
- Cost and duration estimates
- Lessons learned register
- Project schedule and resource calendars
- Quality reports
- Resource requirements and requirements documentation
- Any other such documentation
What is a kickoff meeting?
When does it occur?
A meeting of the key parties involved in the project(customers, sellers, project team, senior management, functional management., and sponsor) to make sure everyone is “on the same page”.
Before the Develop Project Management Plan process is completed.
What is a work authorization system?
The project manager’s system for authorizing the start of work packages or activities.
It ensures work is only started when a formal authorization is given.
What is required for successful knowledge management?
What are the types of knowledge?
An organizational culture of trust in which the project manager and stakeholders exchange knowledge without fear of judgment.
Types of knowledge:
- Explicit knowledge: fact–based, and can easily be communicated through words and symbols.
- Tacit knowledge: Includes emotions, experience, and ability, which are more difficult to communicate clearly.
Information management tools and techniques applied to which type of knowledge?
Explicit
What do lessons learned describe?
What went right, what went wrong, and what would be done differently if the project could be redone.
What are change requests?
What are the three main categories of change requests?
Formal requests to change parts of the project after the project management plan is approved.
Corrective action, preventative action, defect repair.
What are corrective actions?
What are preventative actions?
Corrective: actions taken to bring the expected future project performance in-line with project management plan.
Preventative: actions taken to deal with anticipated or possible deviations from the performance measurement baseline and other metrics.
