Project Management
A Sociocultural skill a project manager will need to have to deal with stakeholders that want more from the project than the project can deliver.
What is Negotiating
The type of organization structure that gives the project manager the least amount of authority.
What is a Functional Organization Structure
A document used to assign responsibility, accountability or project roles for tasks and identify roles that need to be consulted or informed during those tasks.
What is a RACI matrix
A project is terminated before any deliverable or project objectives are met.
What is a failed project
The formal process to get changes in scope, budget, and/or schedule that are not covered by contingency or reserve allowances.
What is Perform Integrated Change Contol
A hierarchical breakdown of work required to accomplish the project's deliverables.
What is a WBS structure
ROI, NPV, IRR
What are the financial measures of the benefits of a project.
This type of project team will ensure confidentiality, welcomes ideas to be challenged, works hard and has fun.
What is a high perfoming team
Enables corrective changes to a project, usually before a high-risk project event.
What is a In Process Project Audit.
Illustrating the difference between the actual budget and planned budget, the work that should have been completed, and the work completed and then articulating reasons for the difference.
What is a variance report
The constraints of Good, Fast & Cheap
What is the Iron Triangle
It ensures the right projects are being done and aligns them to organizational strategy
What is portfolio management
A type of conflict that produces a better product, decision or alternative.
What is functional conflict
A spec ific effort to identify lessons learned on a project that is not as formal as an Audit.
What is a project restrospective
The projected budget and schedule at the end of the project based on reports project actuals and known planned work.
What is a forecast report
The document that gives authority to the project manager and officially initiates the project when it is signed.
What is the project charter.
It is doing related projects together and determining the optimal approach for managing them.
What is program management?
When project teams think they can operate outside of the normal organization's administrative processes and policies.
What is bureaucratic bypass syndrome
A project that has been closed because of a significant reduction in scope that has already been met.
What is premature closure
An example would be a templated change request form used by all projects within an organization.
What is an organizational process asset.
The document that holds all the plans for all the knowledge areas.
What is the project management plan
What is a projectized or strong matrix organization
What is Arbitrating the conflict
Enable learning for future projects and determine if project delivered on business case that initiated the project
What is Post Project Audit
What is a baseline.