Scope Flashcards
What variables must change requests be evaluated against?
time, cost, resources, risk, quality and customer satisfaction
What does the WBS do for you?
- clarify requirements
- help plan scope mgmt
- control scope
Each of the PM knowledge areas has a management plan !
Scope actually has two:
- scope mgmt
- requirements mgmt
What are the 3 parts of a Scope Management Plan?
planning, executing and controlling
What is in a Requirements Management Plan?
how you will analyze, prioritize, manage and track changes to them
Describe what a requirements traceability matrix is? When do you need one?
links requirements with deliverables or objectives; large detailed projects
What can lessons learned do for scope management ?
Identify overlooked scope
What can user-story phrases be used for?
to elicit requirements
What is the Nominal Group Technique?
group ranks ideas generated from brainstorming
What is Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis?
weighted decision matrices used to prioritize requirements or risks
Describe affinity diagrams and how they are useful?
requirements grouped by similarities; groupings can reveal additional scope or risk
Explain context-level flow diagrams and how they are useful? Sketch one.
used to define and model scope; labeled to/from arrows revolving project name
What is the plurality technique?
group decision-making
How can Delphi technique yield unanimous agreement?
repetitive rounds of expert judgment
Explain the balanced-scorecard concept?
balancing stakeholder requirements throughout project lifecycle
How would you resolve competing requirements?
Use those that best comply with:
- business case
- project charter
- scope statement
- project constraints
What process is the requirements traceability matrix an output of?
Collect Requirements
Describe inputs to Define Scope?
process uses Scope Mgmt Plan, requirements documentation from Collect Requirements, charter, and risks, assumptions, constraints
Why is Define Scope important?
- ensure project has clear boundaries
- it is iterative !
- unrealistic schedules are PM’s fault
- tools used in planning to determine schedule and budget are used in other process groups too
What is the principal output of Define Scope?
scope statement
What may be included in the scope statement?
- product scope
- project scope
- deliverables
- acceptance criteria
- exclusions
- assumptions and constraints
What is a WBS? Why is it required?
fill in here
What is a good way to organize affinity diagrams?
By requirement categories: • business • stakeholder • solution • transition • quality • technical
Upon what 4 things should a resolution of competing requirements comply?
- business case
- charter
- scope statement
- project constraints
For what process is the requirements traceability matrix crucial?
Perform Integrated Change Control
What 4 considerations tell you you’ve defined a work package?
- can we realistically and confidently estimated
- can be completed quickly
- can be completed without interruption (w/o more information)
- may be outsourced
Explain how work package work volume duration is related to project size?
Work packages:
• small = 4-40 hrs
• medium = 8-80 hrs
• large = ~ 300 hours
What does the WBS dictionary prevent that work packages themselves do not?
scope creep
Explain the Validate Scope process?
Frequent planned meetings with customer/sponsor to gain formal acceptance of deliverables during monitoring and controlling
What is product analysis?
Investigating product during planning
When does Control Scope start?
at scope baseline
What is variance analysis?
EVM
Tool for Control Scope; used to measure differences between what was defined in the scope baseline and that createdl
What three documents make up the scope baseline?
- scope statement
- WBS
- WBS dictionary
What is Control Scope?
• monitoring the product scope and managing changes to scope baseline
