What tools and techniques are used to identify stakeholders?
Expert judgement and stakeholder analysis.
What are the output items of the Identify Stakeholders process?
The stakeholder register and the stakeholder management strategy.
What are the inputs to Identifying Stakeholders?
The project charter, procurement documents, enterprise environmental factors, and organizational process assets.
What is the statement of work?
A document describing the products, services, or results that will be delivered by the project.
What is a project?
A work effort made over a finite period of time with a start and finish to create a unique product, service, or result.
What are the five stages, called process groups, of a project lifecycle?
Initiating
Planning
Executing
Monitoring and controlling
Closing
What are the nine knowledge areas?
Communications Management
Human Resource Management
Integration Management
Procurement Management
Cost Management
Quality Management
Risk Management
Scope Management
Time Management
What are project stakeholders?
Individuals and organizations whose interests are positively or negatively affected by the project execution and completion.
What three characteristics should an effective project manager have?
Knowledge
Performance
Personal abilities
What are the four types of organization structures?
Projectized
Functional
Matrix
Composite
The role of a project manager is more of a coordinator or an expediter in what type of organizations?
Functional and weak matrix.
The initiating process group consists of what two processes?
Develop Project Charter
Identify Stakeholders
What formally authorizes a project?
The approved project charter.
What are the inputs to Identifying Stakeholders?
Project charter
Procurement documents
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
What are the five types of algorithms for constrained optimization methods?
Linear
Nonlinear
Dynamic
Integer
Multiple objective programming
Constrained optimization methods are only used for complex projects and are not typically used for most projects. True or false?
True.
What are constrained optimization methods concerned with?
They are concerned with predicting the success of the project.
What are the three major steps to Stakeholder Analysis?
Identify
Assess
Classify
What are the three categories of methods available to select from the proposed projects?
Benefit measurement method
Constrained optimization method
Expert judgment
What is progressive elaboration?
Progressive elaboration is the process of continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available.
What is the project baseline?
The project baseline is defined as the approved plan for the scope, schedule, and cost of the project.
What are the inputs to the Develop Project Management Plan process?
Project charter
Output from other planning processes
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
The process of developing the project management plan falls into what knowledge area?
Integration Management.
What tools and techniques are utilized in developing the project management plan?
Expert judgment.
What are the five processes of Project Scope Management?
Collect requirements
Define scope
Create WBS
Verify scope
Control scope
What is the Collect Requirements process?
Collect requirements is the process of defining and documenting stakeholders' needs to meet the project objectives.
What are the inputs to the Collect Requirements process?
Project charter
Stakeholder register
What are the outputs of the Collect Requirements process?
Requirements documentation
Requirements management plan
Requirements traceability matrix
What are some of the tools and techniques used in the Collect Requirements process?
Interviews
Focus groups
Facilitated workshops
Group creativity techniques
Group decision making techniques
Questionnaires and surveys
Observations
Prototypes
What are some of the techniques in group decision making?
Unanimity: everyone agrees on a single course of action
Majority: more than 50% agree
Plurality: largest block decides even if no majority
Dictatorship: one person makes the decision for the group
What are some of the group creativity techniques?
Brainstorming
Nominal group technique
Delphi group technique
Idea/mind mapping
Affinity diagram
What is the requirements traceability matrix?
A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle.
What are the inputs to Define Scope?
Project charter
Requirement documentation
Organizational process assets
What tools and techniques are used in the Define Scope process?
Alternative identification
Product analysis
Facilitated workshops
Expert judgment
What are the outputs of the Define Scope process?
Project scope statement
Updates to project documents
If there are n people working on a project, how many total communication channels are there?
There are n(n-1)/2 communication channels.
What is parametric estimating?
The process of using historical data to compare against your project to determine a correlation and thereby a cost estimate for your current project.
Staffing is typically the highest in which phase of a project?
Execution phase.
What are the processes in Scope Management?
Collect Requirements
Define Scope
Create WBS
Verify Scope
Control Scope
What is the lowest level of each branch in a WBS?
Work package.
What is the technique for subdividing the project deliverables into smaller, manageable tasks called?
Decomposition.
What is rolling wave planning?
A type of progressive elaboration in which the decomposition of a deliverable or subproject is postponed until more information becomes available.
What is a component that is below the control account, that has a well-defined work content but not a detailed schedule, called?
A planniing package.
What is the unique identier assigned to each component in a WBS called?
Code of account identifier.
What elements does the project scope statement include?
