Communications
This acronym, that can be used by meeting facilitators, is easy to remember if you think about "fueling up" for your meeting
What is a POWER start?
Used routinely by pilots, surgeons, and astronauts, this simple tool can help reduce failures with a simple mark of the pen
What is a checklist?
Formed by the Scope Statement, the WBS, and the WBS Dictionary, this is also a term used to mean "basis" or "starting point".
What is the Scope Baseline?
Created in 1910 by an American Mechanical Engineer, these eponomously named depictions of project activities usually also show task dependencies
What is a Gantt chart?
This quality management practice attempts to answer the question, "are we following the standards?"
What is Quality Assurance?
This estimation technique, named for an Ancient Greek priestess who could see into the future, involves multiple, anonymous experts
What is the Delphi Technique?
This tool, used to analyze risks, has "branches", but doesn't need to be watered.
What are decision trees?
This term for the lowest level item in the WBS also sounds like something that might be delivered to your office.
What is a "Work Package"?
Often computed on the "backward pass", this helps us understand how much a task can slip before impacting the schedule.
What is slack?
This standard which helps generate ideas for improving quality through comparisons with other projects might make you think of a lab bench
What is benchmarking?
This is the number of communication channels on a team of 5 people
What is 10?
Tusler's risk classification scheme will have you thinking of kittens, tigers, alligators, and this animal.
What is a dog?
This grid, used to classify stakeholders, maps the stakeholder's level of interest in the project and this
What is Power?
A term for time added to a schedule, the term also means "protective barrier"
What is a buffer?
Named from a noted Italian economist, these charts highlight the most important of a set of factors
What is a Pareto chart?
This estimation technique develops estimates based on other similar projects
What is Analogous Estimation?
This statistical analysis technique is also the name of a locality in Monaco
What is Monte Carlo?
This scope "separator", which delineates what should and should not be part of the project may bring to mind a line that can't be crossed.
What is the scope boundary?
In this diagram of a project schedule, information on activity durations is depicted between the nodes
What is an Activity on Arrow or AoA diagram?
Sometimes confused with bar chart, these show the frequency of values within a certain range or category
What is a histogram?
This type of report describes what the project team has accomplished during a certain period
What is a progress report?
Creating this is the first step in the risk management process
What is a risk plan?
These tangible and verifiable work products are intended to be provided to the customers
What are deliverables?
This planning method for developing the project schedule as it evolves, might make you think of the ocean
What is "Rolling Wave" planning?
The quality management practice that inspects the completed product
What is quality control?