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When is a project considered successful?

When it meets stakeholder expectations.

The project plan is the basis on which project work will be done and measured. True or False?

True

What are 3 responsibilities of the project sponsor?

1) Providing financial resources for the project.


2) Formally accepting the product of the project


3) Protecting the project from changing priorities or political changes.

Typically, what is the product scope detailed, managed, and measured against?

The product requirements

When is a project complete?

When formal acceptance is received

What does proper scope management mean?

1) That you are staying within the scope leg of the triple constraint triangle.


2) Ensuring that the project includes all work required and only the work required to successfully complete the project.

What is meant by the terms "work effort" and "duration"?

1) Work effort: The total number of labor units required to complete an activity, typically stated in person hours, person days, person weeks, etc.


2) Duration: The number of work periods that it will take to complete an activity.

How do you define project scope?

The work required to deliver the product, service, or result.

What is the lowest level that a project manager manages the project to?

Work package level.

What do you call providing customers with "extras" not oritginally included in the project charter or project plan in an effort to exceed their expectations?

Scope creep

Which type of plan should address scope creep and performing work not included in the project charter?

A comprehensive scope management plan.

How does the PMBoK define verification?

The evaluation of whether or not a product, service, or system complies with a regulation, requirement, specification, or imposed condition.

What does scope creep not add to a project?

Value

What can a work authorization system help to prevent?

Scope creep

Which process is used in monitoring the status of the scope (project & product) and managing changes to the scope baseline?

The Control Scope Process

Which process concerns itself with defining & documenting stakeholders needs to meet the project objectives. Requirements should relate to solving problems of achieving objectives. May include requests about how the work is managed, product capabilities, quality, business processes and project management. If product requirements are supplied, then you need to clarify rather than determine.

The Collect Requirments Process

Define Nominal Group Technique.

Nominal Group Techniques is where input is collected from Group members and discuss all input. Each member then prioritizes the input.



Define Delphi Technique.

Input solicited from team. During the next round everyone can change thier input.

What is completion of the product scope measured against?

The product requirements.

What is completion of the project scope measureed against?

The project management plan.

Describe Project Scope.

Project Scope is all work needed to be done to create a product, service or result. Project scope is all about the project, defines project requirements, the work required to create the product and defines what is in the product and what is not.

Describe Product Scope.

Product scope is the charecteristics, features and functions fo the product, service or result. It is the outcome of the project. It is all the inforomation about the product, how it will function and what it will look like.

Describe Plurality

Plurality is a group decision making technique. It is where a course of action is decided by the largest number of agreeing members even if a majority is not achieved.

What 3 accounts are involved when working on a WBS?

1) Code of accounts - numbering system for WBS.


2) Chart of accounts - this is a series of accounts that ties back to the company's general ledger system.


3) Control account - level above the work package. "Money", scope, budget, actual cost and schedule are integrated & compared to earn value for performance measurement.

The "project scope statement" is output of what particular process?

"Create WBS" - Once the scope statement is approved it will be part of the scope baseline.

The "requirements traceability matrix" is output of what process?

"Collect Requirements"

The WBS defines each deliverable and the decomposition of the deliverables into what?

"Work Packages"

The output of define activities is what?

"Scheduled Activities"

What is the "process" of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables?

"Verify Scope"

Project Scope is the primary output of what process?

"Define Scope"

True or False? - Activity list is action Oriented?

True.

True or False? - WBS is a deliverable oriented hierarchy?

True.

True or False? - WBS is a deliverable oriented document. If something is "in" scope, it will be "in" the WBS. If something is "not in" scope, it will not be in the WBS.

True.

Which process allows the project scope statement to be developed based on the scope of the product?

Product Analysis.


Which plan provides guidance on how the project scope will be defined, documented, verified, managed and controlled?

Scope Management Plan.

What drives the creation of the Activity List?

WBS.


What is one way to gather requriements?

Facilitated Workshops. (Also, interviews, focus groups, Group Creativity Techniques, Group Decision Making Techniques, Questionaires & Survey, Observation and prototypes)

What is one way of generating different approaches to execute and perform the work of a project?

"Alernative Analysis"