Develop Project Charter
Describes the necessary information from a business standpoint to determine whether the expected outcomes of the project justify the required investment.
?What is a Business Case?
A document that has the project purpose, high-level project description, assumptions, constraints, and high-level requirements that the project is intended to satisfy.
What is the Project Charter?
A unique and verifiable product, result, or capability to perform a service that is required to be produced to complete a process, phase, or project.
What is a Deliverable?
The knowledge learned during a project which shows how project events were addressed or should be addressed in the future for the purpose of improving future performance.
What is a Lessons Learned Register?
This plan provides the direction for managing the change control process and documents the roles and responsibilities of the change control board (CCB).
What is the Change Management Plan?
These take the form of contracts, memorandums of understanding (MOUs), service level agreements (SLA), letter of agreement, letter of intent, verbal agreements, email, or other written agreements.
What are Agreements?
Techniques used to collect data and information from a variety of sources.
What are Data Gathering Techniques?
A document where all the issues are recorded and tracked.
What is an Issue Log?
Hierarchical representation of resources by category and type. Information on the composition of the team and may help to understand what knowledge is available as a group and what knowledge is missing.
What is a Resource Breakdown Structure?
This plan describes the configurable items of the project and identifies the items that will be recorded and updated so that the product of the project remains consistent and operable.
What is the Configuration Management Plan?
Factors that can influence the Collect Requirements process include but are not limited to: Organizational culture, Infrastructure, Personnel administration, and Marketplace conditions.
What are Enterprise Environmental Factors?
Skills used to effectively lead and interact with team members and other stakeholders.
What are Interpersonal and Team Skills?
A formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline.
What is a Change Request?
Where additional information on existing or new stakeholders is gathered/recorded.
What is a Stakeholder Register?
A measurement used to assess the impact of the changes in the project schedule.
What is the Schedule Baseline?
Plans, policies, procedures, and templates for the WBS, Project files from previous projects; and lessons learned from previous projects.
What are Organizational Process Assets?
This interpersonal and team skill may be necessary to bring diverse stakeholders into alignments on all aspects of the project management plan.
What is Conflict Management?
A system that provides access to information technology (IT) software tools, such as scheduling software tools, work authorization systems, configuration management systems, information collection and distribution systems, as well as interfaces to other online automated systems such as corporate knowledge base repositories. Automated gathering and reporting on key performance indicators (KPI) can be a part of this system.
What is Project Management Information System (PMIS)?
Facilities, processes, and procedures used to collect, store, and distribute information between producers and consumers of information in physical or electronic format.
What are Information Management Systems?
Supporting documentation outlining details used in establishing project estimates such assumptions, constraints, level of details, ranges, and confidence levels.
What is the Basis of Estimates?
A tool/technique that should be considered from individuals or groups with knowledge of or experience with similar projects.
What is expert judgment?
This analysis helps determine if the requested change is worth the associated cost.
What is Cost-benefit analysis?