Project Management Mystery
Think Like a Project Manager
What's the Right Term?
PM Ready Brain Challenge
Certification Expert
100

A significant checkpoint or event in a project schedule that marks important progress or completion of a major objective.

What is a Milestone?

100

A project manager develops a goal that is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.

What is a SMART Goal?

100

A project team includes some employees working together in an office and others working remotely.

What is a Hybrid Team?

100

A project manager meets with team members to discuss completed work, current progress, upcoming tasks, and potential problems.

What is a Status Update Meeting?

100

A meeting held to evaluate a project's performance, results, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.

What is a Project Review Meeting?

200

A team meets at the end of a Sprint to discuss what went well, what went wrong, and how to improve teamwork and processes.

What is a Retrospective Meeting?

200

A project team uses columns and task cards to visualize workflow and limit the amount of work in progress.

What is Kanban?

200

A client requires that only authorized users can access sensitive information in a new application.

What is a Security Requirement?

200

A large body of Agile work that is too big to complete as a single user story and must be divided into smaller stories.

What is an Epic?

200

A project team invites a small group of potential customers to participate in a guided discussion about their needs and opinions.

What are Focus Groups?

300

A project manager identifies the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats associated with a proposed project.

What is a SWOT Analysis?

300

A project manager must obtain equipment, supplies, or services from outside vendors to complete the project.

What is Procurement?

300

A project manager postpones addressing a minor disagreement because it is not urgent and has little impact on the project.

What is Avoiding?

300

A project manager must complete a project within 30 days and cannot spend more than $15,000. These limitations are known as this.

What are Constraints?

300

The person who provides high-level support, helps secure resources, and champions the project's business objectives.

Who is the Project Sponsor?

400

A project manager emphasizes areas of agreement and minimizes differences between two team members to reduce tension.

What is Smoothing?

400

A project manager believes that a supplier will deliver materials on time but has not verified the delivery date. This unconfirmed belief is considered this.

What is an Assumption?

400

A project manager compares a proposed product's features and performance with those of successful competitors to identify improvements.

What is Benchmarking?

400

A project manager uses their authority to make a decision despite objections from team members because immediate action is required.

What is Forcing?

400

The process of evaluating tasks and determining which should be completed first based on importance, urgency, and dependencies.

What is Task Prioritization?

500

A team uses a data-driven improvement methodology to reduce defects and variation in its manufacturing process.

What is Six Sigma?

500

A project manager estimates a task's cost using optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimates to account for uncertainty.

What is Three-Point Budgeting?

500

A project team uses flexible, iterative methods to deliver value in small increments and respond to changing customer needs.

What are Agile Delivery Methods?

500

A leadership philosophy in which the leader focuses on supporting, empowering, and removing obstacles for team members rather than controlling their work.

What is Servant Leadership?

500

At the end of a Sprint, the Scrum Team and stakeholders inspect the product increment, discuss feedback, and consider future priorities.

What is a Sprint Review Meeting?

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