Terminology
Process for subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more management components
What is Work Breakdown Structure?
4 tools & techniques for the Collect Requirements process
What are interviews, focus groups, facilitation workshops, group decision-making techniques, questionnaires, surveys, observations, prototypes
Unanimity, majority, plurality, dictatorship
What are Group Decision Making Techniques?
2 inputs for the Collect Requirements process
What are project charter and stakeholder register?
Expert judgment, product analysis alternatives, Identification Facilitated Workshops
What are tools & techniques for "Define Scope"?
Brainstorming, nominal group technique, The Delphi Technique, Idea/Mind Mapping, Affinity Diagram
What are "Group Creativity" techniques/activities?
Product scope description, product acceptance criteria, deliverables, exclusions, constraints
What is included in a detailed project scope statement?
Outputs for Collect Requirements process
What are requirement documentation, management plan, traceability matrix?
Used to review scenarios to bring the schedule into alignment with the project plan
What is "What-if" scenario analysis?
Tools & techniques for estimating activity durations
What are expert judgment, analogous estimating, parametric estimating, 3-Point estimates, and reserve analysis?
Process to monitor project status to update progress and manage change to schedule baseline. For example, performance reviews, variance analysis, Critical Chain Method.
What is a Control Schedule?
3 inputs for estimating activity durations?
What are activity lists, attributes, resource requirements, resource calendars, enterprise environmental factors, process assets
Activity, durations, estimates, project document updates
What are outputs for estimating activity durations?
The 3-point estimates
What are most likely, optimistic, and pessimistic?
Tools & techniques for developing schedules
What are schedule network analysis, critical path method, critical chain method, resource leveling, What-if scenario analysis, leads & lags, schedule compression, schedule tool
Inputs for developing a schedule
What are activity lists, attributions, project schedule, network diagrams, activity resources requirements, resource calendars, project scope, enterprise environmental factors
Calculates theoretical early and late starts & finishes for all activities w/o regard for resource limitations
What is Critical Path Method?