Unit 1: Project Management Fundamentals
This project approach requires a fully defined scope before work begins and relies on a linear start-to-finish plan.
What is the Predictive Approach?
This term describes a significant point or event within a project.
What is a milestone?
This term refers to all the work done on a project to deliver a product, service, or result.
What is Project Scope?
This term describes falling behind schedule on tasks without adding additional scope.
What is slipping?
This process is used to verify that all contract work has been completed accurately and satisfactorily.
What is the Contract Closure Process?
In an adaptive project approach, this is the prioritized list of tasks planned for upcoming sprints.
What is a Product Backlog?
This document officially authorizes a project and includes objectives, the business case, and project milestones.
What is the Project Charter?
This document lists identified risks and the severity of each risk.
What is the Risk Register?
This schedule compression technique shortens task duration by adding more resources.
What is crashing?
This individual has the ultimate authority to sign off on a project and its deliverables.
Who is the Project Sponsor?
This phase focuses on testing, quality control, and ensuring the project stays on track.
What is Monitoring and Controlling?
This type of authority comes from experience, knowledge, and technical expertise.
What is Credibility Authority (Expert Authority)?
This tool is used to manage a project schedule but does NOT manage the project budget or scope.
What is a Gantt Chart?
This is extra money set aside in a project budget and is only used if the project goes over budget.
What is a contingency plan (or contingency reserve)?
Project documents and processes are saved during this activity so future projects can reference past work.
What is archiving project documents?
This element of the code of ethics emphasizes being truthful with project estimates and status updates.
What is Honesty?
This stakeholder has final authority over whether the project meets requirements and signs off on the product.
Who are the customers?
This document defines the work to be performed and what is specifically excluded, but does not include a budget, risk register, or schedule.
What is the Scope Statement?
This quality function focuses on preventing defects by evaluating processes and includes quality audits.
What is Quality Assurance?
The primary benefit of documenting lessons learned is to improve these elements in future similar projects.
What are processes, cost, time, and quality?
This communication method involves distributing information directly to stakeholders, such as through email.
What is Push Communication?
In this organizational type, the project manager has a high level of authority over the project.
What is a Projectized organization?
This estimating method calculates the cost of each task and then adds them together to create the total project estimate.
What is Bottom-up Estimating?
This group approves or denies changes to a project’s scope to prevent scope creep.
What is the Change Control Board?
This group benefits the most from documented lessons learned and improved project processes.
Who are the project team members?