Project Management Key Terms and Concepts
Project Integration
Quality
Scope Management
Miscellaneous
100
A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.
What is a project?
100
Processes related to identifying, defining, combining, unifying, and coordinating PM processes and activities.
What is project integration?
100
The degree to which the project fulfills the requirements.
What is Quality?
100
The work performed to deliver a product, service, or result with the specified features and functions.
What is project scope?
100
When a wedding planner (PM) meets with their client to discuss the details of the wedding, including all the tasks the wedding planner is responsible for.
What is gathering requirements?
200
This person is responsible for planning, coordinating, managing, monitoring, and controlling a project.
Who is the project manager?
200
This document may contain a summary budget, stakeholder list, approval requirements, PM and their responsibilities and authority level.
What is the project charter?
200
An assessment of Correctness (as opposed to exactness or consistency).
What is "accuracy"?
200
Tools and techniques for collecting requirements.
What are expert judgement, brainstorming, interviews, focus groups, questionnaires, surveys, benchmarking, and data analysis?
200
Bob the Builder meets with his team to brainstorm and create a list of tasks needed to complete the Wilson's bathroom renovation project.
What is create the WBS?
300
The PM is constantly working to ensure these are in balance.
What are the triple constraints: Scope, Schedule, Cost?
300
This document describes how the project will be executed, monitored and controlled, and closed.
What is the project management plan?
300
Giving the customer more than required (not recommended).
What is "gold plating"?
300
The features and functions that characterize a product, service, or result.
What is product scope?
300
This quality management tool is used to generate ideas that can be linked to form organized patterns about a problem.
What is an affinity diagram?
400
Core project management processes (phases).
What are initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and control, and closing?
400
Tracking project progress against the plan and taking correction action when issues arise.
What is monitoring and control?
400
Who is responsible for quality.
What is "EVERYONE"?
400
A deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives.
What is the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?
400
What is a fishbone (or Ishikawa) diagram?
500
These are the (4) core values in PMI's Code of Ethics.
What are Responsibility, Respect, Fairness, and Honesty?
500
Outputs include an updated lessons learned register, the final product or service, and other process asset updates.
What is the Project Closure (Close Project)?
500
This is the most expensive approach to finding defects.
What is let the customer find the defect after delivery?
500
A document that provides detailed deliverable, activity, and scheduling information about each component in the WBS.
What is a WBS dictionary?
500
During a team meeting, Sally realizes that her test team is falling behind and assigns a developer to assist with testing instead of starting a new coding task. What process is Sally performing?
What is monitoring and control?