Project Basics
The person responsible for leading and managing the project team.
What is a Project Manager?
This visual tool shows tasks, durations, and dependencies on a timeline.
What is a Gantt Chart?
An uncertain event that could impact the project’s success.
What is a risk?
A table that shows who is responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed.
What is a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)?
The total amount of money allocated to a project.
What is a Budget?
The organized effort to achieve a specific goal within defined constraints.
What is Project Management?
Breaking down a project into smaller, manageable pieces.
What is a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?
The log that tracks and updates all identified project risks.
What is a Risk Register?
The matrix that measures stakeholder engagement levels.
What is a Stakeholder Engagement Assessment Matrix?
The rules and frameworks guiding how a project is managed.
What is Governance?
Anyone who may affect or be affected by the project.
What is a Stakeholder?
The approved version of a project’s scope, schedule, and cost.
What is a Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)?
A chart used to find the root cause of a problem.
What is a Fishbone (Ishikawa) Diagram?
When a team member gives in to keep harmony.
What is Smoothing/Accommodating?
Analysis that identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
What is a SWOT Analysis?
A collection of projects managed together for strategic goals.
What is a Portfolio?
The process used to manage how changes are handled.
What is Change Management?
Gradual expansion of project scope without approval.
What is Scope Creep?
When both sides work together for a win-win solution.
What is Collaborate/Problem-Solve?
A system for tracking Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies.
What is RAID?
The formal document that authorizes the project’s existence.
What is a Project Charter?
A document that defines how communication will occur during the project.
What is a Communications Management Plan?
The document that records project problems needing resolution.
What is an Issue Log?
Avoiding a conflict entirely is known as this strategy.
What is Withdrawal/Avoidance?
The professional standards that encourage excellence and integrity.
What are Aspirational Standards?