Project Management Mix-Up
A temporary effort with a defined beginning and end that creates a unique product, service, or result.
What is a Project?
A visual scheduling tool that uses horizontal bars to show when project tasks begin and end.
What is a Gantt Chart?
A meeting held at the beginning of a project to introduce team members, review goals, and clarify responsibilities.
What is a Kickoff Meeting?
A conflict resolution strategy in which both parties give up something to reach a mutually acceptable agreement.
What is Compromise?
A fixed-length period of one month or less during which a Scrum Team works toward a Sprint Goal and creates a usable product increment.
What is a Sprint?
A short description of a feature from the user's perspective, commonly written as "As a..., I want..., so that..."
What is a User Story?
A flexible project management approach that welcomes changing requirements and uses frequent feedback.
What is the Adaptive Approach?
A requirement describing what a product or system must do, such as allowing customers to place orders.
What is a Functional Requirement?
A project management approach that emphasizes detailed upfront planning and works best when requirements are relatively stable.
What is the Predictive Approach?
The boundaries of a project, defining the work that is included and excluded.
What is Project Scope?
An uncertain event or condition that could positively or negatively affect project objectives.
What is a Risk?
A document that formally authorizes a project and gives the project manager authority to use organizational resources.
What is a Project Charter?
A project management approach that combines predictive planning with adaptive practices.
What is the Hybrid Approach?
A chart that displays how much work remains in a Sprint or project over time.
What is a Burn-Down Chart?
Planned and systematic activities designed to ensure project processes can meet established quality requirements.
What is Quality Assurance?
The Scrum accountability responsible for maximizing product value and managing the Product Backlog.
Who is the Product Owner?
Formal confirmation that completed project deliverables meet the agreed-upon requirements.
What is Project Acceptance?
A planning tool that breaks a large project into smaller, manageable components of work.
What is a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?
A person, group, or organization that can affect or be affected by a project's activities or outcomes.
Who is a Stakeholder?
Specific, testable conditions that must be satisfied for a user story or requirement to be accepted.
What are Acceptance Criteria?
A document recording project successes, challenges, and recommendations to improve future projects.
What is a Lessons Learned Document?
A shared set of quality standards that a product increment must satisfy before the Scrum Team considers it complete.
What is the Definition of Done?
The formal process of evaluating, approving, rejecting, and documenting proposed project changes.
What is Change Control?
The amount of time a task can be delayed without delaying the project's overall completion date.
What is Total Float?
A document that justifies a proposed project by explaining its purpose, expected benefits, costs, and business value.
What is a Business Case?