PM Basics
This person or group authorizes the initiation of a project
What is the Project Sponsor?
This document formally outlines what will be included and what will not be included in the project
What is a scope statement?
This is a popular scheduling tool that uses horizontal bars to visually chart starts and finishes, durations, and relationships for all project tasks.
What is a Gantt chart?
This document outlines who is responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed for each piece of a project
What is a RACI?
This is a 15-minute time-boxed daily event in which the developers on a Scrum team meet to inspect progress toward a sprint goal and adjust plans for upcoming work
What is the daily scrum?
The document needed to officially kick off a project; it includes a business case and a high-level view of what work will be done
What is a Project Charter?
This type of requirement specifies what must be included as features of the final product
What are functional requirements?
This scheduling tool allows you to visually place work packages and tasks in order to help identify their sequence
What is a network diagram?
These are people and organizations that impact or are impacted by a project. Examples of this type of project role include customers and suppliers
What are stakeholders?
This PM methodology is most appropriate when steps in a project must be done in a certain order to lead to an end goal (example: planning a road trip)
What is waterfall?
This is a feasibility study that maps out external and internal assets and liabilities for a project in a four-quadrant grid
What is a SWOT Analysis?
This is the greatest level of decomposition in a WBS
What is a work package?
Are we there yet? This is a marker on the schedule with no time duration that marks a significant moment on the road to project completion.
What is a milestone?
This document allows you to analyze stakeholders interests and identify management strategies
What is a stakeholder register?
This Scrum event is a chance for a team to discuss what did and didn't go well during the previous sprint and identify what can be improved in the future.
What is a sprint retrospective?
This is a temporary undertaking meant to accomplish a unique result for the company
What is a project?
When requirements, features, and, work crawl beyond the agreed-upon scope, it could be putting your project budget and deadlines at risk! Scary!
What is scope creep?
This is a term that represents an estimate of how long the project will take from start to finish based on the longest sequence of required activities
What is the critical path?
These are the four phases of team development. Hint: they rhyme!
What are forming, storming, norming, and performing?
This type of PM methodology features an iterative and adaptive approach to work to deliver value frequently but may take longer overall to get to the end of the project
What is agile?
The "Iron Triangle" composed up of these 3 constraints. Changing one constraint will affect the others as well as the overall project quality.
What is Scope, Time, and Cost?
This section of a scope statement outlines the requirements that must be met for a project to be considered completed
What is Acceptance Criteria?
Putting your socks on before your shoes is an example of this type of task relationship
What is finish to start?
Smoothing/Accommodating and Force/Direct are examples of these kinds of techniques.
What is Conflict Management?
From the Japanese word for "Signboard," this popular lean method uses cards to visually represent workflow for a team, typically with three columns: to do, doing, and done
What is Kanban?