Project Management 101
A significant point or event in a project.
What is a milestone?
The person who identifies and defines the project. Also the one who can cancel the project if no longer needed.
What is the Project Sponsor?
This famous PBS bird has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Who is Big Bird?
The blood type is known as the universal recipient
What is AB?
Canada's two national sports.
What is hockey and lacrosse?
An event that can have both positive and negative impact on a project
What is a risk?
This document formally authorizes a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
What is the project charter?
“To be or not to be” is a famous line from this Shakespeare play.
What is Hamlet?
The most abundant element in the universe
What is Hydrogen?
The number of time zones can be found in Canada.
What is 6 time zones?
A strategy where the project team acts to decrease the probability of occurrence or impact of a threat
What is mitigation?
These are specific items that must be produced for the project or project phase to be considered complete
What is a deliverable?
This movie was the first feature-length animated film ever released.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
The continent with the least population
What is Antarctica?
This UNESCO World Heritage Site in Alberta is known for its turquoise lakes and towering mountains.
What is Lake Louise (within Banff National Park)?
To observe and check the progress or quality of over a period of time.
What is Monitoring?
The uncontrolled expansion to project scope without adjustments of time, cost and resources.
What is Scope Creep?
Known for his "stealing from the rich and giving to the poor," this legendary archer supposedly lived in Sherwood Forest.
Who is Robin Hood?
The name of the supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras
What is Pangea?
This famous railway, completed in 1885, played a crucial role in uniting Canada from coast to coast.
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway?
The series of phases that a project passes through from its start to its completion.
What is Project Life Cycle?
This tool to help project managers synthesize the information gathered from monitoring & controlling processes into meaningful knowledge.
What is/are KPI or Key Performance Indicators?
This Canadian actor, known for his roles in Deadpool and The Proposal, hails from Vancouver, British Columbia.
Who is Ryan Reynolds?
This revolutionary product, released in 2007, reshaped mobile communications and technology.
What is the iPhone?
This large, semi-aquatic rodent is known for building dams and is a national symbol of Canada.
What is a beaver?