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A formal or informal approach to discover information from stakeholders by talking to them directly
What is an interview?
Is used to analyze the information needed to develop the project scope statement.
What is expert judgment?
The process of comparing the actual deliverables against what was documented within the scope baseline.
What is verify scope?
The description of the activity by identifying the multiple components associated with each activity.
What are activity attributes?
A management technique for determining the overall cost or timeline for a project by examining the work at the most granular level of detail, compiling all this information, and then coming up with an overall budget and timeline for a project that can be delegated to team members.
What is bottom-up estimating?
Bring together prequalified stakeholders and subject matter experts to learn about their expectations and attitudes about a proposed product, service, or result.
What are focus groups?
A technique used to generate different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project.
What is alternatives identification?
The process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline
What is control scope?
A specific point within a project's life cycle used to measure the progress toward the ultimate goal.
What is a project milestone?
Software used for project planning, scheduling, resource allocation and change management.
What is project management software?
Focused sessions that bring key cross-functional stakeholders together to define product requirements.
What is facilitated workshops?
A document that describes, in detail, the project’s deliverables and the work required to create those deliverables.
What is the project scope statement?
Activities such as measuring, examining, and verifying to determine whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria.
What is inspection?
All milestones and it indicates whether the millstone is mandatory, such as those required by contract, or optional, such as those based upon historical information.
What is a milestone list?
Uses information from similar projects to establish a cost estimate based on the data available
What is analogous estimating?
Methods used to generate ideas within a group of people or stakeholders.
What are group creativity techniques?
Defines the process and criteria for accepting completed products, services, or results.
What are product acceptance criteria?
Deliverables that meet the acceptance criteria are formally signed off and approved by the customer or sponsor.
What are accepted deliverables?
The process of identifying and documenting relations among the project activities.
What are sequence activities?
Uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (e.g., square footage in construction) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters, such as cost, budget, and duration.
What is parametric estimating?
Documents how requirements will be analyzed, documented, and managed throughout the project.
What is a requirements management plan?
Both the outputs that comprise the product or service of the project, as well as ancillary results, such as project management reports and documentation.
What are project deliverables?
Project performance measurements are used to assess the magnitude of variation from the original scope baseline.
What is variance analysis?
Provides a graphical illustration of a schedule that can be used to plan, coordinate and track tasks in a project.
What is a Gantt Chart?
a management technique to determine the probable outcomes of future events based on available information.
What are three-point estimates?