PM Basics
Initiating
Planning Basics
WBS's
Tools
100
A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service improvement or result
What is a Project?
100
Responsible for developing the Charter
Who is the SCR Project Lead?
100
Immediate, quantifiable results that help project leads assess efficiency
What are Outputs?
100
Changes to scope will require that it be updated
What are Work Breakdown Structures?
100
Provides an initial high-level understanding of project information and is the initial planning document
What is a Charter?
200
Performance, Cost and Time
What is the Triple Constraint?
200
The most important team meeting that takes place during project initiation
What is the Kick-Off Meeting?
200
Higher level impacts that give senior managers a sense of the effectiveness in achieving strategic objectives
What are Outcomes?
200
The lowest level of a Work Breakdown Structure
What is a Work Package?
200
The key integrating document that pulls together information about schedule, cost, resource, change, quality, risk, and communications management
What is the Project Management Plan?
300
The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet customer requirements.
What is Project Management?
300
Sponsors, office/advisory boards, Program Executive Officers, and the NAVAIR Legal Department
What are Stakeholders?
300
Accomplishing all of the performance objectives, finishing on time, and finishing within budget
What are Definitions of Project Success?
300
Often includes a brief definition of the work, deliverables, associated activities, and a list of milestones
What is a WBS Dictionary?
300
Relates the project’s organization structure to the WBS to ensure each element is assigned to a responsible individual or organization
What is a RACI Matrix? NOTE: Also accept Responsibility Assignment Matrix.
400
Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing
What are the PMI Process Groups?
400
Gathering and analyzing information to determine whose interests should be taken into account for a project
What is Stakeholder Analysis?
400
Zero duration schedule events
What are Milestones?
400
Breaking down major activities into successively lower levels of detail
What is Decomposition?
400
Graphical representation of high-level milestones
What is a Road Map?
500
A group of related projects, subprograms, and program activities managed in a coordinated way.
What is a Program?
500
Will sign charters as the sponsor for high dollar value and/or highly sensitive/visible projects
Who is the Division Director?
500
Where planning takes place in Stephen Covey’s Time Management Matrix
What is Quadrant II?
500
Using major deliverables, using phases of the life cycle, and using sub-projects
What are ways that the work breakdown structure can be organized?
500
They define the high-level working relationship between NAWCAD SCR and other DOD and non-DOD agencies
What are Memorandums of Agreement, Memorandums of Understanding, Inter-Agency Agreements and Inter-Support Agreements? (One answer will suffice)