Key Terms UNO
What does S.M.A.R.T. stand for?
Specific: Targets a specific area of improvement. Measurable: Identifiable. Attainable/Achievable: Realistic. Relevant: other business goals aligned. Time-Bound: Must have start and end date.
What is a project Charter?
What is a SOW?
Project Charter = a formal, typically short document that describes your project in its entirety — including what the objectives are, how it will be carried out, and who the stakeholders are. It is a crucial ingredient in planning out the project because it is used throughout the project lifecycle. SOW = Statement of work. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes existence of a project and provides the project manager w/ authority to apply resources.
What makes a good Project manager?
Long range perspective. Creative. Problem Solver. Systematic Thinker. Communicator. Team awareness/development. Planner. Guarantee objectives. Mitigate Risk.
What is the difference between a Manager and a Leader?
A manager has a Title and Control. A leader has influence, leading without authority, and the ability to motivate without role and title.
What is the difference between a Project and a Program?
A project has set deadlines, one scope, and a single effort. A program has multiple related projects put together.
1) Initiating: Includes project charter. Helps set the vision of what is to be done. 2) Planning: Fail to plan = Plan to fail. Establishing total scope of a project. 3) Executing: Monitoring and Controlling. Track, review and regulate progress & performance. Team starts doing work creating deliverable. PM manage team and communications and stakeholders. Identify changes and initiate plan for corresponding. 4) Closing: PM formally closes project. Signatures etc.
What are Project Phases?
Phases that connect the beginning of a project to its end. Deliverables from one phase are usually reviewed for completeness and accuracy and approved before work starts on the next phase. Not uncommon for phases to overlap. They usually work together.
What is a Project Life-cycle?
“The Iron Triangle” Time, Cost, Scope all surround and affect the quality of a project. Bigger Scope = More Time = higher cost. Tight Time = Higher costs and reduced scope. Tight Budget = More time and smaller scope.
What is the Triple Constraint?
Routine or repetitive. Ongoing task. An action that is completed one time. No set deadline. Ex. Responding to helpdesk request, repair broken hard drive, producing 1000 new cisco switches.
What is not a Project?
Temporary, unique and has a start and end date. It follows a structured methodology.
What is a Project?
Secure cloud services platform offering compute power,database storage, content delivery, and other functionality to help business scale and grow
What is AWS?
Most flexible cloud computing model and allows for automated deployment of servers, processing power, storage, and networking-Clients have the control
What is Iaas or Infrastructure as a Service?
Risk that has already occurred
What is an Issue?
At the beginning at a project there is a large amount of uncertainty but as the project progresses the uncertainty shrinks
What is the Cone of Uncertainty?
An uncertainty that could have positive or negative effects on project objective
What is a Risk?
Description of investor who, when faced w/ two investments with similar expected return,prefers one with lower risk
What is Risk Averse?
Number of staff work days or hours to complete
What is Effort?
Actual amount of time spent on project less PTO/ Calendar
What is Duration?
The overlapping time between two activities
What is lead time?
Amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to predecessor activity.
What is Lag Time?
Estimators submit one estimate per activity. Used info available to provide estimate to complete-Little detail.
What is a One Point Estimate?
Method of analyzing tasks involved in completing a given project. - Relies on arrow and node diagrams of activities and events, arrows represent arrows or work necessary to reach events or nodes that indicate each completed phase of project.
What is Pert or Program Evaluation and Review Technique?
a limiting a factor that affects the execution of a project, program, portfolio or process. *Schedule, Cost, Scope-Triple Constraint
what are constraints
The last phase of software testing process to make sure it can handle required tasks in real world scenarios.
What is UAT or User Acceptance Testing.
Technique to use when fast tracking has not saved enough time on the schedule-resources added to project for least cost possible.
What is a Crash