Basic Principles/Terminology
A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.
What is a project?
The person assigned by a the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Who is the project manager?
This document is issued by the sponsor and authorizes existence of a project and provides the project manager with authority.
What is a project charter?
The person who has ownership for the project.
Who is the project manager?
This project management method provides an iterative and incremental delivery of a product.
The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
What is project management?
The person responsible for the overall success of a project, including resources allocated.
Who is the project sponsor?
A common type of responsibility assignment matrix that defines the involvement of project stakeholders.
What is a RACI Chart?
A clearly defined starting point for your project.
What is a baseline?
A project management tool that allows you to get a visual overview of the tasks that have been or need to be completed.
What is Kanban?
A significant point or event in a project.
What is a milestone?
This person owns the scrum.
Who is the scrum master?
A hierarchical decomposition of the scope of work for the project team to accomplish with different levels that each increasingly define the the project work.
What is a work breakdown structure?
A method using the sequence of schedule activities to determines the duration of a project that shows the longest possible path of a project.
What is critical path method?
Individuals, interactions, working software, customer collaboration and responsiveness to change are important in agile project management.
What are the agile core values?
Any unique and verifiable product, result or capability to perform a service that is produced to complete a process, phase, or project.
What is a deliverable?
Owns the product backlog.
Who is the product owner?
A repository in which outputs of risk management processes are recorded.
What is a risk register?
Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling.
What are the phases of project management?
Short, simple descriptions of a feature, told from the perspective of the person who desires the new capability, usually a user, or customer of the system.
What is a user story?
An uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has a positive or negative effect on a projects objectives.
What is risk?
Owns the sprint in scrum.
Who is the development team?
A graphical representation of the rate at which work is completed and the work remaining versus the time left.
What is a sprint burndown chart.
A structure organized so that the project manager is at the top of the hierarchy and has power for decisions involved in the project.
What is a projectized organizational structure?
A measure of how much work is being completed in a project.
What is velocity?