Section 26B - Domain 2: Process Flashcards
Task 1: Execute project with the urgency required to deliver business value
- Assess opportunities to deliver value incrementally
- Examine the business value throughout the project
- Support the team to subdivide project tasks as necessary to find the minimum viable product
Task 2: Manage communications
- Analyze communication needs of all stakeholders
- Determine communication methods, channels, frequency, and level of detail for all stakeholders
- Communicate project information and updates effectively
- Confirm communication is understood and feedback is received
Task 3: Assess and manage risks
- Determine risk management options
* Iteratively assess and prioritize risks
Task 4: Engage stakeholders
- Analyze stakeholders (e.g., power interest grid, influence, impact)
- Categorize stakeholders
- Engage stakeholders by category
- Develop, execute, and validate a strategy for stakeholder engagement
Task 5: Plan and manage budget and resources
- Estimate budgetary needs based on the scope of the project and lessons learned from past projects
- Anticipate future budget challenges
- Monitor budget variations and work with governance process to adjust as necessary
- Plan and manage resources
Task 6: Plan and manage schedule
•Estimate project tasks (milestones, dependencies,
story points)
•Utilize benchmarks and historical data
•Prepare schedule based on methodology
•Measure ongoing progress based on methodology
•Modify schedule, as needed, based on methodology
•Coordinate with other projects and other operations
Task 7: Plan and manage quality of products/deliverables
- Determine quality standard required for project deliverables
- Recommend options for improvement based on quality gaps
- Continually survey project deliverable quality
Task 8: Plan and manage scope
- Determine and prioritize requirements
- Break down scope (e.g., WBS, backlog)
- Monitor and validate scope
Task 9: Integrate project planning activities
•Consolidate the project/phase plans •Assess consolidated project plans for dependencies, gaps, and continued business
value
•Analyze the data collected
•Collect and analyze data to make informed project decisions
•Determine critical information requirements
Task 10: Manage project changes
- Anticipate and embrace the need for change (e.g., follow change management practices)
- Determine strategy to handle change
- Execute change management strategy according to the methodology
- Determine a change response to move the project forward
Task 11: Plan and manage procurement
- Define resource requirements and needs
- Communicate resource requirements
- Manage suppliers/contracts
- Plan and manage procurement strategy
- Develop a delivery solution
Task 12: Manage project artifacts
- Determine the requirements (what, when, where, who, etc.) for managing the project artifacts
- Validate that the project information is kept up to date (i.e., version control) and accessible to all stakeholders
- Continually assess the effectiveness of the management of the project artifacts
Task 13: Determine appropriate project methodology/methods and practices
- Assess project needs, complexity, and magnitude
- Recommend project execution strategy (e.g., contracting, finance)
- Recommend a project methodology/approach (i.e., predictive, agile, hybrid)
- Use iterative, incremental practices throughout the project life cycle (e.g., lessons learned, stakeholder engagement, risk)
Task 14: Establish project governance structure
- Determine appropriate governance for a project (e.g., replicate organizational governance)
- Define escalation paths and thresholds
Task 15: Manage project issues
- Recognize when a risk becomes an issue
- Attack the issue with the optimal action to achieve project success
- Collaborate with relevant stakeholders on the approach to resolve the issues
