A justification for a proposed project or undertaking on the basis of its expected commercial benefit. Pleading the case as to why a project should happen.
What is a Business Case?
A formal approved document that defines how the project is executed, monitored, and controlled.
What is a Project Management Plan?
A temporary endeavor that results in a specific product, service, or benefit.
What is a project?
Any unique and verifiable product, result, or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process, phase, or project. The end result of a project.
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A mutually binding agreement.
What is a contract?
A specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventative or corrective action is needed.
What is a schedule baseline?
This defines each deliverable and further breaks down deliverable into smaller tasks.
What is Work Breakdown Structure?
This means intentionally adding extra features or functions to the products which were not included in the scope statement.
What is gold plating?
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Who is Leon Thomas?
Any or all internal and external factors that impact an organization.
What are EEF?
A specific version of the time- phased budget used to compare actual expenditures to planned expenditures to determine if preventative or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives.
What is a cost performance baseine?
This contains the detailed description of the work required, and is often very detailed and technical description of each task.
What is WBS Dictionary?
This is an uncontrolled expansion to a product or project scope without adjustments to time, cost, and resources.
What is scope creep?
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Who is Steph Curry?
A formal, detailed document outlining the specific tasks, deliverables, milestones, and requirements for a project, serving as a contractual agreement between a client and a service provider to ensure a clear understanding of the project's scope and expectations.
What is a Statement of Work (SoW)
An approved specific version of the detailed scope statement, work breakdown structure, and its WBS Dictionary.
What is a scope baseline?
Anything of value that assists with the process of the project to bring success. Ex. plans, policies, guidelines, lessons learned, expert judgement, prior experiences.
What are organizational process assets?
is a formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to a project with all decisions and recommendations being recorded.
What is a change control board?
a businessman known for his key roles in Tesla, SpaceX, PayPal, OpenAI, and Twitter. Since 2025, he has been a senior advisor to United States president Donald Trump and the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency.
Who is Elon Musk?
A document issued by a project sponsor that formally authorizes and initiates a project.
This includes the product scope description and the project deliverable, and it also defines the project user acceptance criteria.
What is a Project Scope Statement?
An Organizational Structure in which the the business is organized by departments and areas of specialty. The project manager does not have full authority.
What is a functional organization?
Requests to expand or reduce the project scope, modify policies, processes, plans, or procedures, modify costs or budgets, or revise schedules.
What is a change request?
an English singer-songwriter known for her soulful voice and sentimental songs. Her 2008 debut album, 19, included the singles "Chasing Pavements", "Make You Feel My Love", and "Cold Shoulder".
Who is Adele?