Definitions
A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result.
What is a project?
According to your instructor, the first job of a project manager is to make things _______.
What is explicit?
Benefits from increased team cohesion and spirit.
Who is the project team?
Describes why the organization is doing the project.
What is the project goal?
The ___________ meeting aligns all team members to the common project goals.
What is kick-off meeting?
The application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
What is project management?
In the role of project manager, a primary focus is to manage issues that are currently affecting the project and ____________, that have the potential to in the future.
What are risks?
Increased level of professionalism; visibility and credibility within the organization.
What is a benefit for you?
These are used to define the high-level scope of the project.
What are project objectives?
Managing a project includes establishing clear and ___________ objectives.
What is achieveable?
Person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives.
What (who) is the project manager?
The project manager uses the project charter and a change request process to prevent this.
What is Scope Creep?
Status reports that provide a concise project update, next steps, and clear requests for assistance.
What (who) is the project sponsor?
Things that we believe to be true about the future, which can come back to haunt us.
What are assumptions?
Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitor & Controlling, and Closing
What are the phases of the project management lifecycle?
An individual, group, or organization who may affect, be affected by or perceive itself to be affected by a decision, activity, or outcome of a project
What (Who) is a Stakeholder?
Project managers treat risk identification as an __________ process.
What is ongoing?
A sense of being heard and understood.
What is a benefit for your customer?
These capture how the project will be evaluated and define what "done" looks like.
What are the project success criteria?
A organizational framework where power is evenly distributed between functional and project managers.
What is a balanced matrix organization?
The project tool used to decompose the project and identify the work (and only the work) required to compete the project successfully.
What is the Work Breakdown Structure?
Project managers use ________ to measure budget and schedule performance.
What is data?
Sharing authority to prevent the NAG syndrome.
What is a benefit for you and the organization?
Aside from the benefit of a well-defined project, a project manager receives this important thing from a sponsor-approved charter.
What is authority?
According to the scope triangle, Scope and Quality are constrained (bounded) by these three things.
What are Cost, Time, and Resources?