Lesson 1
What are persons or organizations who are actively involved in the project or whose interest may be positively or negatively affected by the performance or completion of the project.
What is Stakeholders
What is Project Statement of Work?
Narrative description of products or services to be delivered by the project
What is Define Scope?
The process of developing a detailed description of the project and product.
What is Rolling wave planning?
A form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail and future work is planned at a higher level of the WBS.
Estimate costs and determining a budget
Those directly involved with or responsible for beneficiaries or targets of the project.
Those whose jobs or lives might be affected by the process or results of the project.
What is Secondary Stakeholders
What is a Business Case?
A document that provides the necessary information from a business standpoint to determine whether or not the project is worth the required investment.
When is Product Analysis needed?
For projects that have a product as a deliverable, techniques such as product breakdown, system analysis, requirement analysis, systems engineering, value engineering and value analysis.
What is Templates?
A standard activity list or a portion of an activity list form a previous project is often usable as a template for a new project. The related activity attributes information in the templates can also contain other descriptive information useful in defining activities. Templates can also be used to identify typical schedule milestones.
What is Analogous Estimating?
A high level estimate used to include program evaluation review techniques (PERT) estimations.
Government officials and policy makers.
Those who can influence others.
Those with an interest in the outcome of an project.
What is Key Stakeholders
What is a Contract?
A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it
What is alternatives identification used for?
Used to generate different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project.
What is Activity List?
A comprehensive list including all schedule activities required on the project.
What is Parametric Estimating?
Used to estimate the quantity of work and productivity rate per unit of work.
What is a project?
What is Temporary, Unique, Defined Beginning and End.
What are Organizational Process Assets?
Resources within your organization that may help reach the project objectives.
What is Facilitated Workshops used for?
Sessions that bring in stakeholders together to discuss the project.
What is a Milestone?
A significant point or event in a project?
What is Bottom-Up Estimating?
Used when estimating activities that are rolled up to create a total project estimate.
What is Project Management?
What is Planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of a project.
What is Expert Judgement?
Judgement provided based upon an expertise in an application area, knowledge area, discipline, or industry, as appropriate for the activity being performed.
What does Project Scope Statement include?
Product Scope Description
Product Acceptance Criteria
Project Deliverables
Project Exclusions
Project Constraints
Project Assumptions
What is a Gantt Chart?
Graphic display of schedule related information.
What is three-point Estimating?
Used to look at best case, worse case, and most likely estimates when creating cost estimates.