Project Management Mystery
A specific product, service, or result that must be completed and provided as part of a project.
What is a Deliverable?
A person responsible for planning, organizing, and leading a project team to achieve its goals.
Who is the Project Manager?
A fixed amount of money planned to cover the costs of completing a project.
What is a Budget?
A short daily Scrum meeting where Developers inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adjust their plan for the next day.
What is the Daily Scrum?
A meeting held at the beginning of a Sprint to establish the Sprint Goal, select work, and plan how to complete it.
What is Sprint Planning?
An ordered list of features, improvements, fixes, and other work needed for a product.
What is a Product Backlog?
A visual board used by a Scrum Team to track work through columns such as To Do, In Progress, and Done.
What is a Scrum Board?
A fictional profile representing a typical user, including their goals, needs, and behaviors.
What is a User Persona?
A potential problem has already occurred and is now affecting the project. It is no longer a risk but this.
What is an Issue?
A short description of how a user interacts with a system to accomplish a specific goal, including the steps involved.
What is a Use Case?
A relationship in which one project task depends on another task starting or finishing.
What is a Task Dependency?
A budgeting technique that estimates the costs of individual tasks and adds them together to calculate the total project budget.
What is Bottom-Up Budgeting?
A scheduling adjustment that introduces a required waiting period between two dependent tasks.
What is Lag Time?
A project manager allows a successor task to begin before its predecessor is fully completed. This scheduling adjustment is called this.
What is Lead Time?
A Scrum accountability responsible for helping the team understand and apply Scrum effectively and improve its practices.
Who is the Scrum Master?
A repeated cycle of work in which a team develops, tests, reviews, and improves part of a product.
What is an Iteration?
A scheduling diagram that shows project activities and their dependencies to help analyze the sequence of work.
What is a PERT Chart?
A project team adds features that were never requested or approved because they believe the client will appreciate the extras.
What is Gold Plating?
A conflict resolution strategy in which team members work together to find a solution that addresses everyone's concerns.
What is Collaboration?
A change in a project's requirements or work that expands the scope without proper evaluation or approval.
What is Scope Creep?
A formal record used to identify potential project risks, assess their probability and impact, and document planned responses.
What is a Risk Register?
A requirement describing how well a product must perform, such as speed, reliability, or usability.
What is a Non-Functional Requirement?
A project management approach in which work progresses through largely sequential phases, with one phase generally completed before the next begins.
What is the Waterfall Approach?
A chart showing the amount of completed work increasing over time, often compared with the project's total scope.
What is a Burn-Up Chart?
A relative estimation technique used by Agile teams to measure the effort, complexity, and uncertainty of completing a user story.
What are Story Points?