Lesson 1-3
Being _____means you are successful in producing a desired or intended result
What is effective?
This is the “leading professional membership association for the project, program, and portfolio management profession”
What is the Project Management Institute (PMI)?
The steps below refer to what process?
1. Initiation
2.Planning
3.Executing
4.Monitoring and controlling
5.Closing
The stages of a project
This tool is designed for comprehensive project management and provides robust capabilities for analyzing and tracking workload, charting and visualizing chains of events, budgeting, and scheduling.
What is Microsoft project?
Being _____means achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense
What is efficient?
The person who initiates or sponsors the project and defines high-level requirements. They are your “customer.”
What is the project owner?
The specific, tangible outcomes produced as a result of the project
What are deliverables?
This tool is a free, web-based file repository. Businesses can secure additional cloud storage through purchasing premium and fee-based options. Team members in any location can create, access, edit, and share files quickly and simultaneously from one central storage location, eliminating the all-too-common pitfall of duplicate documents.
What is google docs?
These have a fixed time frame. There is a clear beginning and a definitive end. They are thus temporary by nature
What is a project?
The individuals impacted by the outcome of the project. This may be a certain area of the business, such as the employees or leadership, or it may be the organization’s external customers
What are stakeholders?
This refers to additional time to deal with the unexpected during a project
What is safety margin?
This tool, which is an exceptional business tool that combines communication features, collaboration, file sharing and project management functions.
What is Microsoft Teams with Sharepoint?
These are single-step. They can typically be done in one sitting or in a single chunk of focused time
What are tasks?
What are 2 of the common reasons for problems to arise in projects?
-Lack of process
-Scope creep or change
-Failure of others to do their part
-Budget or time underestimation
A best practice is to include a___% safety margin for each task.
50%
This tool first developed in the 1890s, is perhaps the most popular tool for traditional project managers. It maps out tasks, their start and end dates, duration, dependencies, and overlaps, providing a clear timeline of the entire project
What is a Gantt chart?
This refers to the process of controlling things
What is management?
This refers to the goals and parameters of a project
What is scope?
A _____task must be completed before another one can. A _____task can only be done after another task has been completed.
What is precedent; dependent?
This tool centralizes all aspects of project management in one platform. With built-in communication tools, clear task assignment, progress tracking, and an intuitive interface, it also simplifies collaboration without the need for complex IT setup or multiple disconnected apps.
What is Basecamp?