Session 3 Flashcards
Cadence
Refers to the timing and frequency of delivery of project deliverables
* Single: One delivery at the end of the project
* Multiple: Delivery separated into parts, not necessarily sequentially
* Periodic: Like multiple deliveries, but on a fixed schedule (i.e., monthly or bimonthly)
Scrum
Agile framework that offers suggestions for how work can be organized to maximize value to the end user
Scrum is implemented at a product development team level
Roles include a scrum master/senior scrum maters who facilitates ceremonies (meetings); iterations are called sprints
Artifacts
Documents that need to be maintained and then archived at the end of the project
Rolling Wave Planning
An iterative planning technique in which the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while the work in the future is planned at a higher level.
Project Scope
The features, functions, and works that characterize the delivery of a product, service, and/or result
Product Scope
The functions and features that characterize a product or a service
Progressive Elaboration
The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information and more accurate estimates become available.
Milestone
A specific point within a project life cycle used as a measure in the progress toward the ultimate goal
Marks a specific point along a project timeline
User Story
An informal/general explanation of a product, service, or software feature written from the perspective of the end user.
Purpose is to articulate how the feature will provide value to the customer
Nominal Group Technique
Enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas for further brainstorming or for prioritization
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
Technique that utilizes a decision matrix to provide a systemic, analytical approach for establishing criteria, such as risk levels, uncertainty, and valuation, to evaluate and rank many ideas
Benchmarking
The comparison of actual or planned products, processes, and practices to those of comparable organizations to identify best practices, generate ideas for improvement, and provide a basis for measuring performance
Context Diagram
Visual depiction of product scope, showing a business system and how people and other systems interact with it.
Storyboarding
The prototyping method that uses visuals or images to illustrate a process or represent a project outcome. Storyboards are useful to illustrate how a product, service, or application will function or operate when it is complete
Prototypes
A method of obtaining early feedback on user requirements by building a working model of the expected product.
Prototypes can be used to solicit aesthetics, functionalities etc.
