The acronym for a department or group that defines and maintains the standards of process, generally related to project management, within an organization
What is PMO (Program Management Office)?
100
The following formal statements are used when establishing a contract:
Acceptance and Offer
What is the legally required order?
What is Offer, followed by an Acceptance?
100
A chart that is ideal for creating a preliminary timeline for a project
What is Gantt Chart?
100
Location of the PMO CoP SharePoint, housing many helpful tools and resources to contribute to a project's success
What is InsideCG?
100
The development methodology that utilizes short sprints to build and test code
What is Agile (or Scrum)?
200
Microsoft application that is used to manage budgets, resources and schedules. Allowing one to easily track the success of specified goals
What is MS Project?
200
Document developed along the risk management processes, from identifying risks through performing qualitative risks analysis to controlling risks
What is Risk Register?
200
A detailed project status report should be provided in this frequency
What is Weekly?
200
The current PMO CoP Lead...
Who is James "Jim" Chadwick?
200
The process of predicting resource and fixed expense to determine the cost of a project
What is Forecasting?
300
Qualification program overseen by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Prior education, work experience and a written examination are all requirements before receiving this certification
What is Project Management Professional (PMP)?
300
Document which includes descriptions of stakeholder communication requirements
What is Communications Management Plan?
300
Projects never go precisely as planned, so 'these' are very important to have
What are Contingency Buffers?
300
This program and project management expert developed the CG Assessment Tool
Who is Grant Overbey?
300
This is the name given to a series of inter-related projects that are managed under a single point of accountability
What is Program?
400
Name of a dictionary that translates essential terms for global project teams
What is WBS?
400
Document stating how a project will be planned, executed, monitored/controlled, and closed; also including the statement of the scope, objectives, and participants in a project
What is Project Charter?
400
The value of goal setting is well recognized among the entire management system, in order to make sure it is attainable, one should always think S.M.A.R.T.
What is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound?
400
She is the PMO Community "Cheerleader"
Who is Suzanne Angulo?
400
The practice of depreciating software asset expense over a period of three years
What is Capitalization?
500
Considered the traditional, sequential approach to project management
What is Waterfall?
500
Document that details the business solution for a project including the documentation of customer needs and expectations
What is Business Requirements Document (BRD)?
500
Bottom-up, top-down, comparative, parametric and three-point; these are all estimates of...
What is Time?
500
She is the "Queen" of CG's Communities of Practice