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This document explains why a project is necessary and outlines its organizational benefits.
What is a Business Case?
This legal agreement outlines obligations of all parties in a project.
What is a contract?
The approved version of the project scope statement, WBS, and WBS dictionary.
What is scope baseline?
Tangible or intangible outcomes produced by the project.
What is a deliverable?
A group that reviews and approves or rejects change requests.
What is the Change Control Board (CCB)?
Company policies, templates, and knowledge bases that guide how projects are managed.
What are Organizational Process Assets (OPAs)?
Assigning and managing people, equipment, and materials to activities.
What is resource allocation?
The approved version of the project schedule, used to measure progress.
What is schedule baseline?
Adding features that weren’t requested or required.
What is gold plating?
A formal proposal to modify project documents, deliverables, or baselines.
The formal document that officially authorizes a project and names the project manager.
What is a Project Charter?
The process of formally recognizing a new project or project phase.
What is initiating with a Project Charter?
The approved version of the project budget, used to measure performance.
What is cost baseline?
Uncontrolled expansion of scope without adjustments to time, cost, or resources.
What is scope creep?
Actions taken to bring project performance back in line with the plan.
What is corrective action?
A detailed description of the work required, including goals, tasks, and deliverables.
What is a Statement of Work (SoW)?
The document that defends why a project should happen.
What is a business case?
The comprehensive document that integrates all subsidiary plans.
What is the Project Management Plan?
Monitoring project work is primarily meant to prevent these two issues.
What are scope creep and gold plating?
Fixing a deliverable that does not meet quality standards.
What is a defect repair?
A specific product, service, or result that must be produced to complete a project.
What is a deliverable?
Name the document that the project manager cannot begin work without.
What is the Project Charter?
This term describes the trio of scope, schedule, and cost baselines.
What are Performance Measurement Baselines?
The stage where deliverables are compared to baselines.
What is Monitoring and Controlling Stage?
A proactive step taken to reduce the probability of future problems.
What is preventative action?