Start the Project Flashcards
Stakeholders
Listed in business case and benefits management plan
May be actively or passively involved, with interest that might be positively or negatively impacted by the project
Stakeholder mapping - 2d grids
Maps a stakeholders power & interest
Other methods:
Power & influence
Impact & influence
Stakeholder mapping - 3d cube
P. I. A
power, influence, attitude
Salience model
A method for stakeholder mapping
vendiagram with power, legitimacy and urgency
Directions of influence
A method for stakeholder mapping; helpful in understanding a stakeholders influence on a project
Upward - sr mgmt
Downward - team or specialists
Outward - Client, end user
Sideward - Peers, other org depts
Stakeholder registry
Captures important information about the stakeholders
Ex: name, role, influence, areas of interest, etc.
Communication methods
Push
Pull
Interactive
SEAM
Stakeholder Engagement Assessment Matrix (SEAM)
Compares the current and desired engagement levels of stakeholders
Unaware
Resistant
Neutral
Supporting
Leading
Acronym to help - URNSL (Uncle Ralph Never Stops Laughing)
Self organizing team
A cross-functional team in which people fluidly assume leadership as needed to achieve the team’s objectives
Agile
Servant leadership
leading the team by focusing on understanding and addressing the needs and development of team members in order to enable the highest possible team performance
Resources
People, equipment, supplies and services, logistics
T-shaped people
Combine breadth and depth of knowledge
SWOT analysis
Tool to make better business decisions
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
PMI code of ethics
4 values
Responsibility
Respect
Fairness
Honest
Team charter
A document created with the team on how the team should work together, expectations, etc.
Includes communication expectations
Not necessary for teams familiar with each other
Project vision statement
Created by sponsor
Clear vision of the desired objectives and alignment with the organization’s strategic goals
Acceptance criteria
Used in predictive projects - reporting & verification criteria for objectives
DoD
Definition of Done
Used in agile projects in addition to iteration outputs to verify if work met objectives
Product box exercise
Exercise to internalize the vision from the customer’s point of view and emphasize the product/project value
XP metaphor technique
Explains a complex idea in simple & familiar terms
Project charter
Formally authorizes the project; provides project mgr with authority to apply resources
Included:
- PM
- Measurable objectives
- High level requirements
- Stakeholder list
- Project approval requirements
Predictive vs. Agile vs. Hybrid
Predictive
- plan driven, linear
- high certainty of requirements
- change possible but controlled
Agile
- change-driven
- incremental & time-boxed
- unclear on requirements at start
- high degree of change
Hybrid
- tailored approach combining predictive + agile
Product vs. project
Product is part of a project; products have their own life cycles
Development approach vs. project life cycle
Development approach: Predictive, Agile or Hybrid
Project life cycle: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling & Monitoring, Closing
Stacey complexity model
Model for assessing complexity
Technical capability vs. requirements
Maps from simple > complicated > complex > chaos
Cynefin framework
Model for assessing complexity
simple, complicated, complex, chaos
Idea is to identify which domain you are in and then choose the appropriate action based on its characteristics
Radar chart
Model for accessing suitability
Map the project, team and culture
Scrum
Agile framework at a product dev team level to organize and maximize value to end user; roles include scrum master who facilitates sprints
Scrum ceremonies
Spring planning - team collaborates w/ product owner to plan work
Daily scrum - short daily meetings
Sprint review - can include a demo
Sprint retrospective - team identifies improvement opportunities
project retrospective - held at end of project
Backlog refinement - product owner prioritizes items on the backlog
Sprint 0
Initial start up activities in agile
