A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result.
What is a project?
100
Individuals and or organizations who are actively involved in the project, or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected as a result of project execution or completion.
What is a Stakeholder?
100
90% of a project manager's job
What is communications?
100
A generic term for work in the project that an individual is responsible for. When breaking down project work, it is the lowest level
What is a task?
100
A discrete occurrence that may affect the project, good or bad.
What is Risk?
200
The individual responsible for managing the project - bringing the project in within budget, on time, and within scope.
What is a project manager?
200
Any measurable, tangible, verifiable outcome, result, or item that must be produced to complete a project or part of a project
What is a deliverable?
200
A list of action items and decisions sent to team members.
What are meeting notes?
200
How long each task takes
What is duration?
200
Changing the project plan due to a risk.
What is Risk avoidance?
300
The combination of elements – schedule, money (people and physical resources) and scope
What is the Iron Triangle?
300
Students, Faculty and staff who care about a project.
What is a stakeholder?
300
One of the most important parts of communication
What is Listening?
300
The work that needs to be done, the dependencies between the tasks, the time the tasks take, and the resources assigned
What is a Schedule?
300
Reducing the probability or impact of a risk on your project.
What is Mitigation?
400
A formal, approved document used to guide both project execution and project control.
What is a project plan?
400
The controlled identification and approval or rejection of requested changes in a project.
What is Change management?
400
A task whose start or finish date determines the start or finish date of its successor task
What is a Predecessor?
400
Identifying, ranking, prioritizing, assigning a risk owner, and planning a response.
What is risk planning?
500
The features and functions that characterize a produce, service or result.
What is Product scope?
500
Uncontrolled changes or continuous growth in a project's scope.
What is scope creep?
500
A place to put good ideas, complaints, thoughts that have no direct relationship to the project and just slow down the project.
What is a parking lot?
500
Manageable chunks, a framework for a project.
What are phases?
500
Ideas from positive or negative project experiences that may be helpful in future projects.