Who Are They
The person responsible for all elements of planning, managing, executing, and controlling the project and who is responsible for bringing the project in on time, cost, to specifications, and to a given quality with agreed upon resources
What is a Project Manager?
This document will provide the justification for investing in the project.
What is a Business Case?
An element of output within the scope of a project. A tangible action item.
What is a deliverable?
Business case; feasibility; approval
What is Project Initiation?
Communicates where you are with project schedule, accomplishments, budget, issues, and next steps. Provided to the team and stakeholders.
What is a Status Report?
The executive responsible for the overall project delivery including management, monitoring, and funding. They must be in a position to solve problems at a higher level when necessary for a project manager
What is a Project Sponsor?
Includes all information about each identified risk/issue, such as the nature of that risk, level of risk, who owns it and what are the mitigation measures in place to respond to it.
clear protocols for behavior and project work
provide a set of processes for how to deal with behavior outside of the protocols
should be established early on via the project charter
must be agreed upon and bought into by all team members
What are Ground Rules?
Determine if we accomplished the goal or met the target; mark “done;” signoff; release team; file documents; compliance activities
What is Project Closure?
Competing demands on projects:
Scope
Time
Cost
What are the triple constraints?
Individuals who support the project manager in performing the work of the project to achieve its objectives.
What are Project Team Members?
This will ensure effective communications amongst the project team and stakeholders. It is the written strategy for getting the right information to the right people at the right time.
What is a Communications Plan?
A process that ensures potential changes to the deliverables of a project or the sequence of work in a project, are recorded, evaluated, authorized, and managed.
What is Change Control?
Managing time, cost, resources, risks, quality, team, etc.
What is Controlling?
Something agreed to be done by a person as a result of a discussion at a meeting and usually recorded in the minutes or log of the meeting.
What is an Action Item?
Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization. The manager of any group that actually makes a product or performs a service.
What is a functional manager?
The document lays out the high-level scope of work to be completed; the requirements; timeline; investment (resources and budget) required; the definition of done, assignment of the project manager, and project success factors. This document needs to be approved by the appropriate officer(s) in the organization.
What is a Project Charter?
Precedence relationship. Restriction that one activity has to precede, either in part or in total, another activity.
What is a Dependency?
Performing/completing the actual work.
What is Executing?
The ability to gather the right people to join a project team and get them working together for the benefit of a project
What is team building?
An individual, group, or organization who may affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by a decision, activity, or outcome of a project.
What is a Stakeholder?
A tool for breaking down a project into its component parts. It identifies all of the tasks in a project. It is the foundation of project planning and one of the most important techniques used in project management.
What is the work breakdown structure (WBS)?
Focus on delivering business value to customers
Minimal Requirements, intentionally no attempt to try define them completely at the start
stakeholders, developers and customers work as a team to evolve and enhance system
View Changes as Desirable
What is Agile?
The most critical and gets the least amount of our time
Beginning with the End in mind-Stephen Covey
What is Planning?
Process that ensures potential changes to the deliverables of a project or the sequence of work in a project, are recorded, evaluated, authorized, and managed.
What is Change Control?