Roles & 360 Management
Team member who owns user story backlogs and validates deliverables against business requirements.
Who is the Product Owner (PO)?
Sequential project delivery model locking requirements before build phases.
What is Predictive (Waterfall)?
Organizational structure where departmental managers hold budget power and PMs have minimal authority.
What is a Functional Organization?
Team evolution stage marked by role conflict and interpersonal friction.
What is Storming?
Decomposition rule requiring the WBS to encompass 100% of project scope.
What is the 100% Rule?
Type of management that requires communicating status transparency and schedule realities to executive sponsors and leadership.
What is Managing Up?
The dynamic project variable in agile while schedule and cost stay fixed.
What is Scope?
The first thing an organization should do when managing crises.
What is take responsibility?
The ideal amount of conflict in a project team.
What is some conflict?
Matrix linking user requirements directly to code modules and QA test scripts.
What is the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)?
RACI rule (R, A, C, or I) demanding single veto authority per activity row.
What is the Accountable (A) Rule?
The first event in American history that informally developed the communication channels and processes between the field agents and "project managers" that created a model we've built upon.
What is the Railroad System?
A type of meeting where action items aren't immediately addressed.
What is a walkthrough?
Richest communication channel providing rapid nonverbal feedback for dispute resolution.
What is Face-to-Face?
Timeboxed technical code probe evaluating novel architecture feasibility.
What is an Architectural Spike / POC / Prototype?
Project team member who designs system features and guarantees technical requirement compliance standards.
Who is the Solution Architect or Tech Lead?
SDLC phase converting requirements into logical models and physical database specs.
What is Systems Design?
Hofstede dimension measuring employee tolerance for strict hierarchical authority.
What is Power Distance?
Motivation theory linking personal effort to expected performance and valued rewards.
What is Expectancy Theory?
IT budget category consuming ~70% of funds for routine maintenance.
What is the RUN Category?
What type of management requires negotiating vendor service contracts and regulatory audit timelines.
What is Managing Out?
SDLC model that ships usable software modules in successive functional product increments.
What is the Incremental Model?
Pushing back professionally against unfeasible executive demands to prevent failure.
What is Intelligent Disobedience?
Productivity multiplier of top-tier software "Einstein" engineers over mediocre peers.
What is 25:1?
Scoping pitfall where speeding up a local task causes downstream queue collapse.
What is the Local Optimization Trap?