Definitions
A discrete task that must be accomplished, usually by a single individual or a small team or group
What is an action item?
To focus on building and maintaining excellent relationships and meeting customers’ needs
What is customer-obsessed?
Offers enough information to understand the need, determine the value, and estimate the resources that would be necessary to complete the project
What is a project vision?
Where OnRamps project management team members go to find one-off action items each week
What is the project management team task board?
A weekly Bridgeway doodle
What is the Animal of the Week?
The total number of work periods (not including holidays or vacation) required to complete a scheduled activity
What is the duration?
To support learning and development among team members within and across projects
What is learning-centered?
Used to summarize and share user testing results
What is a user testing report?
What is the OnRamps Project Master View sheet?
The room number of the Halloween door decorating contest winners
What is BWY 107?
Knowledge or understanding gained by experience that can impact future iterations of the same project or similar projects
What is a lesson learned?
To seek out proven best practices to emulate, incorporate evaluation and assessment during the course of work, and advocate for course-correction and continuous improvement in response to new information
What is evidence-based?
Describes the story and typical sequence of events that describe your user's involvement with the project
What is a high-level use case?
Typically completed weekly to provide updates on completed and anticipated work within projects
What is an executive report?
A popular animal in the project management team Slack channel
What is a sweet precious cat?
A written record of a meeting
What are meeting minutes/notes?
To keep teams focused on the end user experience and on the design decisions that impact them
What is empathetic?
A single, consolidated source of information about the project in terms of initiation and planning
What is a project charter?
A dedicated space where project management team members share kudos, updates, and collaboratively discuss project management practices
What is a project management team meeting?
A monthly space where OnRamps project management enthusiasts can share knowledge, best practices, and solutions informally
What is Pizza & Project Management?
The goals that you aim to achieve with your project
What are project outcomes?
To face problems realistically, communicate tactfully, and promote sharing of challenges and lessons learned honestly so we can all do better next time
What is reflective?
A representation of a user, typically based on user research and incorporating user goals, needs, and interests
What is a user persona?
When an OnRamps project manager shares knowledge by request with other OnRamps team members
What is a project management consultation?
The OnRamps project management methodology most closely aligns with this common methodology
What is waterfall?