PM Terminology
This document formally authorizes a project and names the project manager.
Project Charter
This Agile ceremony is a brief daily check-in where the team shares progress and blockers.
Daily Standup (Daily Scrum)
Tuckman's first stage of team development, where members are polite and getting acquainted.
Forming
This document describes the project scope, major deliverables, assumptions, and exclusions.
Scope Statement (Project Scope Statement)
OPA stands for this — internal knowledge assets like templates, lessons learned, and procedures.
Organizational Process Assets
This component of the scope baseline lists deliverables and subdivides them into smaller work packages.
WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)
This Agile role is responsible for maximizing product value and managing the backlog.
Product Owner
Maslow's hierarchy places this need at the very top — the desire to reach one's full potential.
Self-Actualization
QA stands for Quality Assurance. This companion term focuses on inspecting the finished product.
Quality Control (QC)
EEF stands for this — external or organizational conditions that influence but are not controlled by the project.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
This document captures identified risks, their likelihood, impact, and planned responses.
Risk Register
This visual Agile method uses columns to limit work in progress and improve flow.
Kanban
This leadership style empowers the team by focusing on their needs first, removing obstacles.
Servant Leadership
Unauthorized expansion of project scope without formal change approval is called this.
Scope Creep
This document records stakeholder names, roles, contact info, and engagement levels.
Stakeholder Register
This is the longest path through a project network and determines the earliest completion date.
Critical Path
This Agile estimation technique uses playing cards with Fibonacci numbers to reach consensus.
Planning Poker
Herzberg called salary and working conditions by this term — they prevent dissatisfaction but don't motivate.
Hygiene Factors
This estimating method uses historical data from similar past projects to predict cost or duration.
Analogous Estimating
This type of organizational structure gives the PM little to no authority; resources report to functional managers.
Functional Organization
This formal process ensures that only approved changes are incorporated into the project baseline.
Change Control
Name all four values of the Agile Manifesto.
Individuals & interactions over processes & tools;
Working software over comprehensive documentation;
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation;
Responding to change over following a plan
A PM who influences others using their specialized knowledge has this type of power.
Expert Power
This formula calculates Estimate at Completion: actual costs to date plus budget remaining divided by the CPI.
EAC = AC + (BAC – EV) / CPI
Capturing what worked, what didn't, and how to improve is recorded in this document.
Lessons Learned Register