Methodology
Phases
Project Work
Business Success Factors
Project Deliverables
100
TBSM
What is the Tennessee Business Solutions Methodology?
100
The major deliverable in the Initiation Phase containing the Business Need, Scope and Success Criteria.
What is the Project Charter?
100
A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result which has a definite start and end.
What is a project?
100
Systems built without the customer perspective or input.
What is a failure, doomed to fail, or a failed project - remember the "tire swing" example?
100
The Charter is an example of this type of document because it is continually validated and updated.
What is a working document?
200
The full name and the acronym which indicate the internationally recognized standards document for Project Management.
What is the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)?
200
The phase in which Quality Control plays a major role.
What is the Monitor & Control Phase?
200
The non-profit professional association formed with the purpose of supporting and promoting the discipline of Business Analysis.
What is the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)?
200
A rigorous _________ _______ _______ initiative should precede the request for a technology solution.
What is a business process improvement initiative (such as LEAN or BPI)?
200
Risks are tracked in it.
What is the Risk Register?
300
Project Management (PMBOK) methodology in combination with the Business Analysis (BABOK) knowledge areas.
What is the basis or core or differentiator of the TBSM?
300
According to the PMBOK, this is the phase that identifies all of the processes/tasks that establish the total work effort.
What is the Planning Phase?
300
The type of work when a day is filled with a variety of tasks versus a set of standard work tasks.
What is the difference between project work and operational work?
300
When Business Success Factors are expressed with metrics they then become _______.
What are "quantifiable" or "measurable"?
300
A fancy word for gathering requirements.
What is Elicitation?
400
Significance of the "red boxes" within the TBSM Model.
What are typically BA or Business Analysis tasks?
400
The phase when FINAL lessons learned are gathered and formalized.
What is the Closing Phase?
400
The world's largest not-for-profit membership association for the Project Management profession.
What is the Project Management Institute (PMI)?
400
KPI
What is a Key Performance Indicator?
400
Contains procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled, changed and approved.
What is the Change Control process documentation?
500
The full name and the acronym which indicate the internationally recognized standards document for Business Analysis.
What is the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK)?
500
The phase when a Status Report is provided to the Project Steering Committee.
What are all phases, but more frequently in Execution and Monitoring & Control phases.
500
The professional certifications for Project Managers and Business Analysts.
What are the Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certifications?
500
Individuals from the business who provide their business expertise to the project.
Who are the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)?
500
The developed plans for the PM and the BA which will outline the work methods and processes intended for the project.
What are sub-plans of the Project Management Plan?
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