REQUIREMENTS GATHERING
This process involves defining and documenting stakeholders’ needs to meet project objectives.
What is Collect Requirements?
When more than 50% of a group supports a decision, this type of group agreement has been reached.
What is Majority?
This process involves developing a detailed description of the project and product.
What is Define Scope?
The process of subdividing project deliverables into small, manageable components.
What is Decomposition?
The process of formalizing acceptance of completed project deliverables.
What is Verify Scope?
This technique uses group brainstorming followed by voting to rank the most useful ideas.
What is the Nominal Group Technique?
This type of group decision is made when everyone agrees on a single course of action.
What is Unanimity?
This document describes deliverables, assumptions, constraints, and provides a shared understanding of the project.
What is the Project Scope Statement?
This document contains detailed descriptions of each component of the WBS.
What is the WBS Dictionary?
This process monitors status and manages changes to the scope baseline.
What is Control Scope?
A selected group of experts answers questionnaires in multiple rounds until consensus is reached.
What is the Delphi Technique?
This occurs when the largest block of voters chooses an option—even if it isn’t a majority.
What is Plurality?
This tool translates high-level product descriptions into detailed deliverables.
What is Product Analysis?
This component of the project management plan includes the scope statement, WBS, and WBS Dictionary.
What is the Scope Baseline?
These deliverables meet acceptance criteria and are formally signed off by the customer/sponsor.
What are Accepted Deliverables?
This tool consolidates individual brainstorming ideas into a single visual map to find commonalities and generate new insights.
What is Idea/Mind Mapping?
A single person makes the decision for the group in this type of decision-making.
What is Dictatorship?
This technique generates different ways to perform or approach the project work.
What is Alternatives Identification?
This unique identifier is used to label and track each WBS component. What is a Code of Account Identifier?
What is a Code of Account Identifier?
This technique compares planned vs. actual performance to assess variation from the baseline.
What is Variance Analysis?
This technique provides a direct way to observe individuals performing their tasks in their natural environments.
What are Observations?
Bring together prequalified stakeholders and subject matter experts to learn about their expectations and attitudes about a proposed product, service, or result.
What are Focus Groups?
Measurements that can include planned vs. actual technical performance or other scope performance measurements, documented and communicated to stakeholders.
What are Work Performance Measurements?
This table links requirements to their origin and traces them through the project life cycle.
What is the Requirements Traceability Matrix?
Activities such as measuring, verifying, and examining to ensure work meets requirements.
What is Inspection?