Project Structures & Roles
Term[inator]
[Project] Method[ologies] to the Madness
[Project] Terms of Endearment
Term[inator] 2
100

Is temporary, unique, and progressively elaborate.

What is a project?

100

A potential event that can be negative or positive.

What is a risk?

100

A Project that is inflexible and executed sequentially. 

What is a Predictive Project?

100

Any unique and verifiable product, service or result,

What is a deliverable?

100

Work to be done

Scope

200

Person who authorizes the project, and provides resources and support.

Who is the Sponsor?

200

Factors that, for planning purposes, are considered to be true, real, or certain

What are assumptions?

200

The Project Methodology that embraces change and is flexible.

What is an Adaptive Project?

200

Organizational Structure that standardizes the processes and facilitates the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques.

What is the PMO?

200

Acquiring resources from outside the project team

Procurements

300

Most likely to conflict with the Project Manager over scheduling

Who is a Functional Manager?

300

Problems or challenges that arise during the course of a project, typically negative.

What are issues?

300

Project with emphasis on control and documentation 

What is Predictive Project Management?

300

Process of being aware of one's own emotions, effectively handling them, empathizing with others, and to guide thinking and behavior

What is Emotional Intelligence?

300

Group that work collaboratively to finish a shared objective more effectively and efficiently rather than individually.  

What is a Team?

400

An organizational project structure with little power for the Project Manager and only part-time availability from the Project Team.

What is a Weak Matrix Organization?

400

Project teams work for this group through engagement throughout the project.

What are stakeholders?

400

Team self-organizes in this type of project.

What is Agile?

400

Behavior that motivates a people toward a common goal.

What is Leadership?

400

Must be constantly evaluated to maximize positive impacts and minimize negative impacts.

What is Risk?

500

Managing ongoing activities to deliver goods & services with NO start and end date. Must consider acquisitions, developments, and utilization.

What is Operations Management?

500

Process that satisfies stakeholders’ expectations and fulfills project and product requirements 

What is Quality?

500

Project with everything planned upfront, but requirements for deliverables will change.

What is a Hybrid Project

500

Project area that ensures all stakeholders get the correct information at the right time.

What is Communication?

500

Represents a team's s set of behavioral parameters and organizational structures. 

What is a Team Agreement (Chater)?

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