Initiating, Organizing/Preparing the Work, Carrying out the Work, and Ending the Work.
What is the project Life Cycle? or What is the 4 stages of the project Life Cycle?
A significant point in a project, often shows as a sign that a deliverable is complete.
What is a milestone?
A portion of work that contributes to the completion of a deliverable.
What is a task?
The amount of money spent on the work done on a project.
What is Actual Cost?
The process of saving project plans, documents, and notes for future reference should a need for a similar project arise.
What is archiving?
A form of listening that requires one to fully concentrate on understanding a speaker and engaging with that speaker.
What is active listening?
A document that, when signed, formally authorizes a project.
What is a project charter?
An external resource or provider for a project.
What is a vendor?
An unauthorized change to a project scope, which usually results in increased costs and project delays.
What is Scope Creep?
A process by which a team identifies and documents what went well in a project and what needs to be better in future, similar projects.
What is lesson learned?
A code of integrity that all project managers should follow. PMI's four pillars of ethics are responsibility, respect, fairness, and honesty.
What is the code of ethics?
The person or entity with the final sign-off rights on a project. This person or entity is often the financial backer of a project.
What is the Project Sponsor?
The estimated cost for a project plan.
What is a budget?
A process that ensures a product being built meets requirements and specifications set in the project scope.
What is Quality Assurance?
The act of a project sponsor and possibly customers agreeing that a project has been completed and is ready to be released.
What is Formal Sign-off?
One-way communication from an entity to an audience.
What is push communication?
A person or entity with an interest in the outcome of a project.
What is a Stakeholder?
A dependency in which a task needs to finish before the task dependent on it can finish.
What is finish-finish?
A process by which change requests to a project scope are evaluated and then either approved and implemented or denied.
What is Change Management?
What is the next phase once a project, such as a website, is completed?
What is support?
A project management approach used when a project scope is not completely clear when a project plan is being formed.
What is the adaptive approach?
The people who carry out the work specified on a project.
What is a/the Team Members?
A budgeting method that uses information from previous, similar, completed project plans to estimate a budget for a project plan.
What is historical comparison?
The act of delivering extra features to a project without being officially added to the project scope.
What is Gold Plating?
Who has the final approval of work done on a project?