Project Communications
This type of report describes what the project team has accomplished during a certain period
What is a Progress Report?
Learning Cycles, Interviews, Delphi, and Nominal Group Technique are examples of ways to do this part of the risk process that starts with the letter "I".
What is Identify Risks?
This quality activity attempts to answer the question, "Are we meeting the standards?" and is sometimes abbreviated, "Q.C."
What is Quality Control?
This technique which might make you think of the ocean allows for planning a project as it unfolds
What is rolling wave planning?
This type of report uses Red, Yellow, and Green to give a quick overview of project status
What is a Stoplight Report?
This acronym can help remind Project Managers ways to facilitate the start of effective meetings and is also a common button on a remote control.
What is POWER?
Decision Trees, Risk Impact Tables, Tusler's Risk Classification, and Statistical models are tools to help with this part of the risk process.
What is Analyze Risk?
This quality process happens throughout development and tries to answer the question, "Are we following the standards?"
What is Quality Assurance?
These, often represented as arrows between tasks, need to be understood before tasks can be sequenced.
What are dependencies?
These reports show progress on individual tasks in the schedule frequently represented in a horizontal bar chart
What is a Gantt Chart Project Status Report?
This estimation technique involves multiple, anonymous experts and is also an ancient Greek city.
What is the Delphi?
Transfer, Acceptance, Mitigation, and Ignore are examples of ways to ____ to a risk - also another word for "answer".
What is Respond to Risk?
This chart which can help with quality control and illustrates the 80/20 rule is named after an Italian Economist
What is a Pareto Chart?
This type of diagram is often abbreviated as AoN
What is an Activity on Node Diagram?
This type of costs, like property rent and utilities, tend to increase as project duration increases
What are Indirect Costs?
On a team of 8 individuals, this is the number of communication channels and the age of someone born in 1998.
What is 28?
This is typically the first thing created in the Risk Management process.
What is a Risk Plan?
This generates ideas for quality improvements through comparisons with other projects and starts with the word for something you might sit on.
What is Benchmarking?
Always Zero on the Critical Path, this term is used to describe the amount of time a task can be delayed without impacting a successor task.
What is Slack?
This term for the cost of shortening the duration of a task might make you think of a car accident
What is crashing?
This estimation technique develops estimates based on other similar projects and starts with the letter 'A'.
What is Analogous Estimation?
A common strategy for transferring risk, you can't legally drive a car without it.
What is insurance?
Identifying specific coding standards and training materials are examples of this process
What is Planning Quality?
This strategy for managing the project schedule can impact the planned delivery date and involves keeping resources at a more consistent value throughout the project.
What is resource leveling?
This term for money set aside for project contingencies is frequently between 10 and 20 percent of the total project cost.
What is Management Reserve?