PM Basics
This person or group authorizes the initiation of a project
What is the Project Sponsor?
This document formally outlines what will be included and what will not be included in the project
What is a scope statement?
This is a popular scheduling tool that uses horizontal bars to visually chart starts and finishes, durations, and relationships for all project tasks.
What is a Gantt chart?
A .csv file uses this punctuation mark to separate columns of data
What is a comma?
This is a 15-minute time-boxed daily event in which the developers on a Scrum team meet to inspect progress toward a sprint goal and adjust plans for upcoming work
What is the daily scrum?
The document needed to officially kick off a project; it includes a business case and a high-level view of what work will be done
What is a Project Charter?
This type of requirement specifies what must be included as features of the final product
What are functional requirements?
This estimation technique uses most likely, worst case, and best case factors to determine balanced duration estimates for project activities
What is 3 point estimation?
This type of data visualization plots multiple connected points over time. It's well-suited for showing changes over time
What is a line graph?
This PM methodology is most appropriate when steps in a project must be done in a certain order to lead to an end goal (example: planning a road trip)
What is waterfall?
This is a feasibility study that maps out external and internal assets and liabilities for a project in a four-quadrant grid
What is a SWOT Analysis?
This is the greatest level of decomposition in a WBS
What is a work package?
Are we there yet? This is a marker on the schedule with no time duration that marks a significant moment on the road to project completion.
What is a milestone?
This valuable function helps you find data in a table by first searching for a matching value vertically in a column and then returning the desired data in the same row
What is VLOOKUP?
This Scrum event is a chance for a team to discuss what did and didn't go well during the previous sprint and identify what can be improved in the future.
What is a sprint retrospective?
This is a temporary undertaking meant to accomplish a unique result
What is a project?
When requirements, features, and, work crawl beyond the agreed-upon scope, it could be putting your project budget and deadlines at risk! Scary!
What is scope creep?
This is a term that represents an estimate of how long the project will take from start to finish based on the longest sequence of required activities
What is the critical path?
You can "turn" a big data set into an easy-to-understand report with this interactive data analysis tool
What is a pivot table?
This person is accountable for maximizing the value of the scrum team and ordering the product backlog.
Who is the product owner?
The "Iron Triangle" composed up of these 3 constraints. Changing one constraint will affect the others as well as the overall project quality.
What is Scope, Time, and Cost?
This section of a scope statement outlines the requirements that must be met for a project to be considered completed
What is Acceptance Criteria?
Putting your socks on before your shoes is an example of this type of task relationship
What is finish to start?
This sticky function helps you combine data from two cells into one. (It's also Quark's favorite function).
What is CONCAT or CONCATENATE?
From the Japanese word for "Signboard," this popular lean method uses cards to visually represent workflow for a team, typically with three columns: to do, doing, and done
What is Kanban?