Project Initiation
This document shows the business needs, current understanding of the customer needs, and the new product, service, or result that is intended to satisfy.
What is the project charter?
This is the master blueprint of the project.
What is the project management plan?
A unique and verifiable product, result or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process, phase or project.
What are deliverables?
This type of change is the identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to repair or replace the component.
What is defect repair?
This is a symbolic ending of a project and perhaps the dissolution of the team, may also be a time of mourning or excitement due to the success of the project, and also a time to reflect.
What is project celebration?
A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it.
What is a contract?
This type of baseline deters procrastination.
What is a schedule baseline?
The process deliverable used to define the project timeline and allocate the work effort to reach designated deadlines.
What are project schedules?
This type of change is the direction for executing the project work to bring future performance in line with project expectations.
What is corrective action?
These are items such as charter documents, lessons learned, change documents, or final customer ratings that are kept for future project managers.
What are document archives?
What are enterprise environmental factors?
This baseline deters overspending.
What is a cost performance baseline?
The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time, cost, or resources.
What is scope creep?
This type of change is the direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with the project.
What is preventative action?
This is a general report that provides an overview of the project that is created to provide stakeholders with a summary of the project.
What are organizational process assets?
This baseline deters gold plating and scope creep.
What is a scope baseline?
Intentionally adding extra features or functions to the products which were not included in the scope statement.
What is gold plating?
This is a document that requests to expand or reduce the project scope, modify policies, processes, plans, or procedures, modify the project scope, costs, or schedules, or modify the quality of the deliverable.
What is a change request?
This is a review of budget estimates compared to the actual costs.
What is Cost Review &/or Evaluation?
This is a document that provides the necessary information from a business standpoint to determine whether or not the project is worth the required investment.
What is a business case?
This is a deadline for each actional step or objective.
What is a milestone?
The process deliverable used to evaluate and measure project results and performance (to discover lessons learned for continued improvement).
What are project reviews?
This is a formal group of people responsible for approving or rejecting changes on a project.
What is change control board?
This involves interviewing the client to develop feedback on the project team performance and to express satisfaction and identify areas in which to improve.
What is scope review &/or evaluation?