PM Basics
Initiating
Planning Basics
WBS's
Tools
100
A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service improvement, or result
What is a project?
100
Consolidates Project Management and Systems Engineering planning into one document
What is the Initial Project Plan Agreement (IPPA)?
100
Immediate, quantifiable results that help Project Managers assess efficiency
What are outputs?
100
Changes to scope require this to be updated
What is a Work Breakdown Structure?
100
Improves SCR’s ability to identify projects that can be supported by Division resources and establishes consistency for upfront planning and communications
What is the IPPA?
200
Performance, cost, and time
What is the Triple Constraint?
200
The most important team meeting that takes place during the Initiating Phase
What is the Kick-Off Meeting?
200
Higher-level impacts that give senior managers a sense of the effectiveness in achieving strategic objectives
What are outcomes?
200
The lowest level of a WBS
What is a work package?
200
The key integrating document that pulls together information about schedule, cost, resources, change, quality, risk, and communications management
What is a Project Management Plan?
300
The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements
What is Project Management?
300
Sponsors, office/advisory boards, and executive management
Who are external stakeholders?
300
Accomplishing all of the performance objectives, finishing on time, and finishing within budget
What is project success?
300
Describes the components of a WBS
What is a WBS Dictionary?
300
Relates the project’s organization structure to the WBS to ensure each element is assigned to a responsible individual or organization
What is a RACI Matrix? OR What is a Responsibility Assignment Matrix?
400
Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring/Controlling, and Closing
What are the PM Process Phases?
400
Gathering and analyzing information to determine whose interests should be taken into account
What is stakeholder analysis?
400
Ultimately responsible for creating, executing, reviewing, monitoring, and documenting the plan
Who is the Project Manager?
400
The breaking down of major activities into successively lower levels of detail
What is decomposition?
400
Graphical representation of high-level milestones
What is a Roadmap?
500
A group of related projects, subprograms, and program activities managed in a coordinated way
What is a program?
500
Signs the IPPA
Who is the Project Manager and their supervisor?
500
Where planning takes place in Stephen Covey’s Time Management Matrix
What is Quadrant II?
500
Using major deliverables, using phases of the lifecycle, or using sub-projects as the first level of decomposition
What are ways to organize a WBS?
500
Defines the high-level working relationship between NAWCAD SCR and other DOD and non-DOD agencies
What are MOAs/ISSAs/IAs?
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