Scope, Estimation, Scheduling, and Completion
A set of interrelated activities working together toward a goal or objective over a finite period of time.
What is a project?
Person accountable for a project from initiation to closing and oversees day-to-day activities.
What is a Project Manager?
The effect of uncertainty on objectives.
What is risk?
Traditional, linear project management approach where project phases occur sequentially, with each phase fully completed before the next begins.
What is Waterfall?
Program that ensures the squadron meets or exceeds mission requirements.
What is quality assurance?
Phase of the Project Management process where you assemble your team and assign tasks; develop a budget; develop a schedule; and create a communications plan.
What is Planning?
Project Management function that allows you to secure project resources (funding, people, time) and remove delays or obstacles.
What is Negotiator?
The total amount and type of risk an organization is willing to accept, pursue, or retain to achieve its strategic objectives.
What is risk appetite?
A flexible, iterative approach to project management that focuses on delivering work in small, incremental "chunks" rather than all at once, prioritizing collaboration, customer feedback, and adaptability over rigid, pre-set plans.
What is agile?
QA function that assesses the effectiveness of the work center training program, the proficiency of technicians, and the adequacy of technical and procedural data.
What is personnel evaluations?
This rule states that in a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) there must be no overlap in scope definition between different elements of the WBS to ensures that any piece of work or deliverable is identified only once within the entire structure.
What is the Mutual-Exclusion Rule?
A project's competing demand for satisfaction of the project's requirements.
What is quality?
A record system that documents the nature of each risk, their likelihood and impact, mitigation plans, and assigned owners to proactively manage threats and opportunities.
What is a risk register?
This project management approach lends itself to projects with clear requirements and provides end-to-end visibility on progress.
What is waterfall?
Part of the Ops Triad that focuses on ensuring that operators can successfully demonstrate proper weapon system operation.
What is Stan/Eval?
The idea that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion, making estimation a pointless activity.
What is Parkinson's Law?
Framework detailing the five stages of team development, explaining how teams evolve from strangers into a cohesive unit.
What is Tuckman's Model?
Addressing risk by employing technical, physical, or administrative controls to change risk factors.
What is risk mitigation?
Small-scale work created to establish whether a basic idea is technologically feasible, with the goal of validating the practicality of an idea and get support for the project.
What is a proof of concept?
Category of cybercrew evaluations that ensures qualified members remain competent to accomplish the mission and is required every 12-18 months after qualification.
What is Mission (MSN)?
Notation used when scheduling to show how a given task’s duration fits into the overall timeline by depicting project tasks as boxes and showing dependencies.
What is Activity on Node?
Technique for route cause analysis that visualizes all potential root causes of a specific problem or effect by depicting the potential causes of a problem as a spine and bones that are branching off the problem.
What is Ishikawa (fishbone) Diagram?
In terms of project failures, the below are examples of...
Billions of dollars
Lives and quality of life (e.g. jobs)
Public confidence
National security
What is costs of project failures?
Fixed-length periods, often 1-2 weeks, where team members take stories from the backlog to work on and a new minimum product is delivered at the end of that period.
What is a sprint?
Subject matter expert selected in writing by the commander to notify the chain of command of any qualification less than a Q1, among other duties.
What is Stan/Eval Examiner (SEE)?