The gradual expansion of the project’s scope with no regard to schedule, cost, and deliverable consequences
What is Scope Creep?
100
Scope changes require the approval of this stakeholder (Who is the Sponsor or Customer?)
Who is the Sponsor or Customer?
100
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Includes all monitoring and measuring activities needed to acquire data that determines if all customer requirements have been met
What is Quality Control?
100
Promotes the capturing of knowledge that will contribute to the success of future projects
What are Lessons Learned?
100
The stage of team development that focuses on establishing the rules of engagement
What is Norming?
200
Identifies how long the project will take, and which activities need the most monitoring/controlling
What is Critical Path?
200
A formal project management discipline that identifies, documents, validates, verifies, controls, reports, and records the functional and physical characteristics of a product or item
What is Configuration Management?
200
Helps the Contracting Office (KO) identify suppliers who are not responsive by monitoring and measuring performance and tracking documentation
Who is the Project Manager?
200
A tool that consists of a series of assessment questions such as “Are there any outstanding deliverables? And “Are there any outstanding commitments?
What is the Closeout Checklist?
200
Comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects
What is Benchmarking?
300
A schedule acceleration strategy that involves adding more resources to critical path activities
What is Crashing?
300
The tool that documents changes to the baseline
What is the Change Request Form?
300
Systematic quality activities undertaken to provide confidence that the project employs all processes and controls needed to meet customer’s requirements
What is Quality Assurance?
300
A benefit of recording project results at the end of a project
What is Documents Closure of Tasks; or Captures Lessons Learned to enable continuous improvement; or Creates an Archive of Records for future use?
300
The process that enables technical and administrative control of the multiple versions or editions of a specific deliverable
What is Configuration Management?
400
A key component of schedule execution and control
What is Monitoring Progress Against the Critical Path?
400
SCR system that tracks configuration changes throughout the engineering change process
What is the Configuration Management Tracking System?
400
Usually not a primary method, but a valuable supplement to other surveillance methods
What is Customer Input?
400
A tool that ensures the sponsor formally accepts the requested deliverables
What is the Closeout Acceptance tool?
400
The risk response that reduces the Likelihood and/or the Consequence of a risk
What is Mitigate?
500
States that adding manpower to a late project makes it later
What is Brooks’ Law?
500
The configuration management activity that involves reporting and recording status information needed to manage configurations items
What is Configuration Status Accounting?
500
The system used to track contract documentation, including financial and material documents
What is COLLECT?
500
A source of documentation for project activities and results
What are Project Management Process Tools?
500
A type of activity dependency where the relationship is based on preferred choice