Initiating Process Group
What do you do in this stage?
Create the deliverable or do all the work to complete the scope of the project, etc.
What is a Change Control?
What does it do?
Formal Requests alter the project in some way
Alter the scope, change the cost, change schedule and or make changes to the quality of the project.
The name of the process that ensures that a project manage gets formal acceptance of the project and its deliverables, issue a final report, lessons learned, archives.
What is Close Project
Who completes all the work on the project?
Who makes all the decisions on the project?
The project team
Project Sponsor
Group that is responsible for reviewing and analyzing change requests in accordance with the change management plan for the project. They will approve, postpone, or reject changes. The results of these decisions are documents in the project change log.
What is Change Control Board
Name 3 reviews in the closing process?
Scope
Schedule
Cost
Name 2 components of project charter
Project Objective, Summery Milestons, Summery Budget, Success Criteria, etc.
What is a graphical picture of the hierarchy of the project. Also identifies all the deliverables to be completed and is the foundation upon which the project is built?
What is Work Breakdown Structure Rita page 180
What is Gold Plating? Who does it
Intentional adding to the scope to impress the Project Sponsor or Client
Project Team or Project Manage
What are the 3 components of Inspection?
Measure, examining and verifying to determine the if the work is meeting the requirements and scope.
What is Lessons Learned?
Name 2 things that might be included in Lessons Learned?
Provides summary of the project and/or what went wrong?
Assessment of Client Satisfaction , Things that could be improved the next time, Should not place blame on others, How project met goals
What are three inputs to the project charter
Stakeholder registry, Contracts, Business Case, Statement of work
What are the minimum 3 components of the PMP?
Also name another optional component.
Scope, Schedule and Cost Performance Baselines
Communications plan
Risk Management Plan
During team building there are 5 stages of team formation and development aka The Tuckman Ladder Model. Name 4 of these stages:
1. Forming 2. Storming 3. Norming 4. Performing 5. Adjourning Rita page 356
Name of the process that measures and assesses work performance data against the scope baseline and manages scope baseline changes.
What is control scope? Rita page 185
Describe 2 work activities that were done in the schedule review process
Review original schedule and worked completed, Events that caused the changes to the schedule, how estimation could be done better next time.
1 Name the 3 components of the Schedule Baseline.
2 Give the complete answer in all words.
3 What visual representation can you create from one of the components of answer #1
1 WBS, WBS Dictionary and Scope Statement
2 WBS stands for Work Breakdown Structure
3 WBS can create a Gantt Chart
What is Scope Creep?
Who does Scope Creep?
What Causes Scope Creep to happen? Give two ways
Uncontrolled expansion of the scope
Project Sponsor or Client
Interference from Client, poor change control system, miscommunication between team or incomplete scope statement
What are the 3 Change implementation or typical changes on a project?
And a short definition of each.
Corrective Action - get users to do the work correctly while the work is being performed
Preventative Action - reduce the negative outcomes by avoiding them to happen
Defect Repair - Fix a quality problem after the work is complete
Name 3 things included in the Document Archive
Project files - Charter, SOW, etc Change control documentation
Project or phase closure documentation - If project was completed or cancelled there should be information
Historical Documentation - lessons learned, etc.