Project Manager
The individual or individuals that the project manager must clearly define the project objective with.
Who is the customer (or sponsor)?
This document is used to authorize the project.
What is the project charter?
Sections of this document typically include Technical, Management, and Cost.
What is project proposal (or proposal)?
A hierarchical decomposition of the project work scope into work packages that produce the project deliverables?
What is a work breakdown structure (WBS)?
The longest path in the overall network diagram.
What is the critical path?
Empowering a project team to achieve the project objective and allowing team members to successfully carry out assigned tasks.
What is delegation?
A gathering of people to clarify the Request for Proposal (RFP) and answer any questions from potential contractors.
What is a bidder's meeting (or bidder's conference)?
Determining whether or not to go forward with the preparation of a proposal.
What is bid / no-bid decision?
The portion of the Project Scope Document that clearly defines the major tasks or work elements that will need to be performed by a project team or contractor?
What is the Statement of Work (SOW)?
Recorded time of when an activity is completed by the owner.
What is actual finish (AF)?
Computer software used to compare actual progress to planned progress.
What is a project management information system (PMIS)?
This person within the customer organization decides which projects to start.
Who is the organization's owner (or president, CEO, department head)?
This form of communication is the best way to build relationships.
What is face-to-face meetings (or face-to-face)?
This document shows appropriate sequence and dependency relationships of activities that need to be performed to accomplish the overall project work scope.
What is the network diagram?
Comparing actual performance to to planned performance and taking corrective action.
What is project control process (or control process, or project control)?
This type of leadership style is ideal for effective project management.
What is participative and consultative?
The quantitative conditions expected to be accomplished.
What is acceptance criteria?
This document establishes good customer communications between customer and contractor by arriving at a mutual understanding and clear expectations.
What is a contract?
This type of plan assures work is done according to specifications and applicable standards and that deliverables meet acceptance criteria.
What is the quality plan?
A specific activity must end by this in order for the entire project to be finished on time.
What is latest finish (LF)?
Examples of this include inspiring teamwork, coaching the team, establishing an environment of trust, developing individual team members.
What is project leadership (or leadership)?
This type of agreement states that the customer will pay the contractor a set amount regardless of actual cost.
What is fixed-price contract (or fixed-price)?
The percent of the number of proposals a contractor won out of the total number of proposals the contractor submitted to various customers over a particular time period.
What is win ratio?
Sequencing activities in this way allows the project to be completed in the shortest possible time while making the best use of available resources
What is laddering?
The total amount of time that the activities on a particular path must be accelerated to complete the project by its required completion time.
What is negative slack?