Project Management Mystery
A desired result or outcome that a project is intended to achieve.
What is a Goal?
A physical or digital item created or delivered as a result of project work.
What is a Product?
A company or individual that sells goods or services needed to complete a project.
Who is a Vendor?
The practice of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling project activities to achieve specific objectives.
What is Project Management?
The moral principles and professional standards that guide appropriate behavior and decision-making in project management.
What are Ethics?
A person assigned to complete specific tasks and contribute to achieving the project's objectives.
Who is a Team Member?
A person who guides, motivates, and coordinates team members to accomplish their assigned work.
Who is the Team Leader?
A project team whose members work together in the same physical location.
What is a Co-Located Team?
A team whose members work from different geographic locations and rely on technology to communicate and collaborate.
What is a Virtual Team?
Individual cards used by a Scrum Team to represent specific pieces of work and track their progress.
What are Scrum Task Cards?
A visual, high-level plan showing a project's major goals, milestones, and expected progress over time.
What is a Roadmap?
A legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties that defines their obligations.
What is a Contract?
A group of related projects managed together to achieve benefits that would be difficult to obtain if managed separately.
What is a Program?
A prioritized list of work items that need to be completed, such as tasks, improvements, or features.
What is a Backlog?
A meeting held to formally conclude a project, confirm completion, and address final administrative responsibilities.
What is a Project Closure Meeting?
A flexible framework in which teams work in short, timeboxed cycles to deliver usable product increments.
What is Scrum?
A project manager uses cost information from similar projects completed in the past to estimate expenses for a new project.
What is Historical Data?
A project team generates as many ideas as possible before evaluating or selecting the best solutions.
What is Brainstorming?
The process of identifying, addressing, and resolving disagreements between team members in a constructive manner.
What is Conflict Management?
The people, equipment, materials, money, and other assets needed to complete project activities.
What are Resources?
A collection of projects, programs, and other work managed together to achieve an organization's strategic objectives.
What is a Portfolio?
A project manager begins with an overall budget and then divides that amount among departments or project activities.
What is Top-Down Budgeting?
A project team uses flexible, iterative methods to deliver value in small increments and respond to changing customer needs.
What is Requirements Gathering?
A project management approach emphasizing detailed upfront planning, established procedures, and a structured sequence of work.
What is the Traditional PM Approach?
An Agile principle that makes project work, progress, decisions, and problems visible to team members and stakeholders.
What is Transparency?