🧠The Req-oning
According to Gainwell standards, every Business Requirement should begin with this phrase.
What is “DHS shall,"?
This checklist is completed at the end of each project phase per Gainwell quality control standards.
What is the Phase Gate Checklist?
According to PMBOK, this is an uncertain event that can affect the project either positively or negatively.
What is a risk?
In Gainwell’s PLC model, this phase precedes Plan.
What is Initiate?
This artifact or document is required by both PMBOK and Gainwell to propose a change to project scope, cost, or timeline.
What is a Change Request (CR)?
This traceability tool links Business Requirements to Functional Requirements to Change Orders and Test Cases.
What is rTrace?
According to PMBOK, these two distinct activities help ensure project outputs meet quality standards.
What are quality assurance and quality control?
In both PMBOK and Gainwell methodology, when a risk becomes reality, it becomes this.
What is an issue?
According to PMBOK, this process group includes gathering requirements and defining scope.
What is Planning?
In PMBOK, changes to project scope, schedule, or cost must pass through this coordinated process.
What is Integrated Change Control?
Per Gainwell’s Requirements Management Plan, Business Requirements must be written to reflect this underlying justification.
What is the business need?
Gainwell’s PMO performs internal audits of schedules, issues, and decisions on this cadence.
What is weekly?
Per PMBOK, this process involves evaluating risk probability and impact to set project priorities.
What is Qualitative Risk Analysis?
Per Gainwell’s SDLC, during the Design phase, Functional Requirements are linked to these represenations of discrete pieces of work for the project solution.
What are Change Orders (COs)?
This tool is used internally by Gainwell to track the status of all Change Requests.
What is Microsoft Project Online (MSPO)?
All requirements must be written from this perspective.
What is the end-state?
This internal Gainwell reporting tool in MSPO audits risks, issues, and status compliance.
What is Hammerhead?
Two of the four standard strategies Gainwell uses to respond to project threats.
What are Accept and Mitigate? (or any two of Accept, Avoid, Mitigate, or Transfer)
This Gainwell document is submitted with the final RTM and Implementation Plan and marks the project’s formal completion.
What is the Project Closeout Document?
Gainwell uses this type of estimate when a Change Request is not yet fully defined but still needs sizing across the entire project lifecycle.
What is a ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) Estimate?
In Gainwell’s rTrace system, this requirement status means the solution has been implemented.
What is Complete?
This internal Gainwell document defines how project and product quality will be managed throughout the lifecycle.
What is the Project Quality Management Plan?
This Gainwell-defined plan describes how the team will respond if a high-priority risk occurs.
What is a contingency plan?
For Very Lite projects, this is used in lieu of Requirements and Design documents.
What is the Change Order Desired Solution.
In Gainwell's change process, any Change Request over 500 hours must go through this additional level of approval.
What is DHS Executive Sponsor approval?