Scope Management

Question 1

Value Engineering

Answer 1

an approach used to optimize project life cycles costs, save time, increase profits, improve quality, expand market share, solve problems, and/or use resources more efficiently; see Product Analysis Tool and Technique

Question 2

Group Creativity Techniques

Answer 2

Brainstorming, Nominal Group Technique (voting and ranking ideas), Idea and Mind Mapping, Affinity Diagrams (grouping into categories)

Question 3

Group Decision Making Techniques

Answer 3

Unanimity (all agree), Majority (over 50%), Plurality (largest block), Dictatorship (one person decides), Consensus (all agree to go along, even if it’s not their first choice), Delphi Technique (blind/anonymous)

Question 4

Project Scope Statement

Answer 4

describes in detail the project’s deliverables and the work required to create those deliverables; it contains explicit project inclusions and exclusions, acceptance criteria, assumptions, and constraints

Question 5

Project vs Product Scope

Answer 5

Project scope is measured against the project management plan, whereas product scope is measured against the product requirements

Question 6

Decomposition

Answer 6

the process of continually breaking down project deliverables into small parts to the point where activity costs and durations can be reliably estimated and managed

Question 7

WBS

Answer 7

a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decompostion of the work to be completed on a project; each lower level represents an increasingly detailed definition of the work; lowest level if the work package; each node has a unique identifier; WBS Dictionary: provides a detailed description of each WBS component

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