Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
A _______ is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result. Projects are temporary, and have a beginning middle and end. Example: research report
Project
100
_________ is the discipline of planning, organizing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of project, namely achieving its goals and objectives. __________ is important because, when done properly it increases product or service quality, improves communication, reduces risks of failure and increases the chances of project success.
Project Management
100
A _________ is a general picture of a whole project.
Project Design & Planning
100
A __________ is unique and temporary.
Project
100
An _______ is repetitive.
Operation
200
A __________ is a business is anyone who has an interest of some kind in the business. Major _________ include financers, customers, suppliers, local community members, employees (including project team members), and owners Example: Students are ________ at school.
Stakeholder
200
The _________ is a cooperative learning strategy that enables each student of a group to specialize in one aspect of a learning unit. Just as in a _______ puzzle, each piece – each student’s part – is essential for the completion and full understanding of the final product. If each student’s part is essential, then each student is essential. That is what makes the ________ instructional strategy so effective.
Jigsaw Method
200
An _______ is a person who is in charge of and determines the final content of a text, particularly a newspaper or magazine. In determining the “final content” ______ need to perform several activities.
Editor
200
Not all research paper, term papers, or essays are of high quality. Many students write a single draft and turn it in as final product. High quality or good papers share five common characteristics: comprehensiveness, structure, clarity, and coherence, appropriate style, and overall presentation.
Quality Paper
200
________ are among the most challenging and rewarding forms of measurement. They require a personal sensitivity and adaptability as well as the ability to stay within the bounds of the _______.
Interview Protocol
300
Conducting ___________ as opposed to traditional strategies provides you with the advantage of time, amount of information, access, organization, and instant recording or note taking.
Web-Based Research
300
_________________ is authentic and can be verified or corroborated. Verified means it can be checked for accuracy or established scientifically. Corroborated means there is agreement among people that the information is accurate. Authentic means the source of the information is genuine or original, not counterfeit or copied.
Valid and Reliable Information
300
A ________ is a collection of three or more people that is formed for some purpose (e.g., complete work that is too difficult or complex for one person to complete, provide support for one another). ________ differ in terms of their type, structure, roles, norms, and cohesiveness.
Group
300
___________ is ad social theory proposed by Bruce Tuckman in the 1960s and now widely accepted. The theory states that groups through predicable stages as they begin and carry out their work. The five stages are forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.
Group Dynamics
300
_________ are the ways in which personalities, agenda, and goals of the individual group members affect the way the group functions (or does not function) and the work it accomplishes (or fails to accomplish). __________ also include the ways that group members treat one another and ways in which their personalities affect other members of the group.
Group Interactions
400
___________ are the jobs or functions that people have within a group. These roles can be grouped into three categories: task roles (e.g., coordinator), social-interpersonal roles (e.g., encourager), and dysfunctional roles (e.g., dominator).
Group Roles
400
______________ are ways of sending messages to others without the use of spoken or written language. A researcher at UCLA concluded that as much as 93 percent of communication effectiveness is determined by nonverbal cues. Examples of ____________ are facial expressions, body movements and posture, gesture, eye contact, space and touch.
Nonverbal Cues
400
__________ is a process of participation through which people, groups, and organizations work together to achieve desired results. _________ accomplish shared vision, achieve positive outcomes for the audiences they serve, and build an interdependent system to address issues and opportunities.
Collaboration
400
Groups of people who share similar jobs that seek to meet together to increase his/her own knowledge and opportunities. Members also seek to enhance and further the profession. Many _____________ are non-profit.
Professional Organizations
400
The _________ is a modern business model that is based on the belief that people who work effectively in teams can accomplish more than individuals can accomplish working alone. Building the __________ requires that project managers get each team member to personally commit to the team’s goal. In a well-functioning team, members understand the personalities and motivations of the members and communicate clearly to avoid misunderstanding and to ensure that the goal will be met.
Team Concept
500
To ___________ means to compile ideas into a coherent whole that combines the diverse views and organizes them to show the relationship and differences among them.
Synthesize Information
500
A _________ is a graphical representation drawn on a time scale in which key tasks or project events are marked in the sequence of their occurrence.
Timeline
500
Unlike our common understanding, an _________, as the term is used in oral and written communication, is not a heated disagreement about some issue. Rather, an ________ is a connected series of statements that lead to and support a conclusion. There are three stages to an _______: Premises, inference, and conclusion.
Argument
500
_________ establishes the timelines, delivery and availability of project resources, whether they be personnel, inventory or capital. A project _______ provides realistic milestones for the completion of tasks through the lifespan of the project.
Schedule
500
Intiating, which are the activities performed to define a new project or a new phase of an existing project. Intiating activities performed to define a new project or a new phase of an existing project. Intiating activities include the definition of initial scope, identification of initial financial resource commitments, and identification of stakeholders, selection of the project manager, establishment of a project, charter, and getting full authorization for the project.Planning, which are the activities performed in order to establish the total scope of the project, define and refine the objectives, and develop the course of action that will be followed to achieve the objectives.Executing, which are the activities performed to carry out and complete the work as define in the project management plan. Executing activities include coordinating people and resources and performing and integrating the activities as specified in the project plan. Monitoring and controlling, which are the activities performed to track review and regulate the execution of the project; identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate corresponding changes. Closing, which are the activities performed to finalize the project – to bring it to a conclusion and to meet contractual obligations. Closing activities include obtaining acceptance by the customer or sponsor, conducting post-project or phase-end review, recording impacts, documenting lessons learned, and closing out procurements.
Five Process Stages
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