Scope and Structure
this establishes what is to be accomplished in a project.
What is the Project Objective?
This matrix illustrates who will be responsible for the work.
What is the Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
This is an uncertain event that can jeopardize the project objective if it occurs.
What is a Risk?
These activities must be performed in a single file, one after another.
What is a Serial Sequence?
This is the final phase of the project lifecycle.
What is the Project Closing Phase?
These are the four elements required in a project objective.
What are Deliverables, Date, Budget, and modifications agreed upon by the customer?
To maintain accountability, this is how many people should be designated as "Primary" for a single task
What is one?
These two factors are used to assess a specific risk.
What are Likelihood of occurrence and Degree of impact?
These activities can be performed at the same time.
What are Concurrent Activities?
The purpose of this is to capitalize on the knowledge and experience gained from the project.
What are Lessons Learned?
This document defines the major tasks needed to produce all project deliverables.
What is the Statement of Work (SOW)?
These are the three key actions involved in quality control.
What are monitoring regularly, comparing to standards, and taking corrective action?
These are the three primary types of risk responses.
What are Avoid, Mitigate, and Accept?
This situation creates an infinite cycle and makes completion impossible.
What is a Loop?
This is the primary way to measure if a project truly met the customer's needs and expectations.
What is Customer Feedback?
What is the Statement of Work (SOW)?
This is a hierarchical decomposition of the project work scope into work packages.
These three components are typically included in a quality plan.
What are Project Specifications, Industry/Government Standards, and Written Procedures?
What is a trigger
This "warning sign" indicates a risk is about to occur or has occurred.
Because it breaks the scope into work packages, WBS is considered the "foundation" of this
What is project planning?
These are at least three areas evaluated in a post-project review.
What is Schedule, Budget, Customer Satisfaction, Quality of deliverables or Team Performance?
This term describes the unauthorized expansion of project scope, which is considered dangerous.
What is Scope Creep?
Planning for quality early helps prevent these two project-draining factors.
What are additional costs and schedule extensions?
Ignoring risks until they occur leads to this frantic management style.
What is "firefighting"?
Any changes to the project objective must be agreed upon by these two parties.
What is project planning?
Lessons learned should be documented throughout the project for this reason.
What is to ensure information is captured accurately while memories are still fresh?