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Chapter 5 Flashcards

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A Project Schedule is used for ________

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Waterfall Projects

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Sprint Planning is used for _________

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Agile Projects

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Work Breakdown Structure is apart of ________

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Scope Planning

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WBS

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Work Breadown Structure

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A deliverables-oriented hierarchy that defines all the work of the project.

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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

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The process of breaking down the high-level deliverables into smaller, more manageable work

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Decomposition

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What is the basis for estimating activity duration, assigning resources to activities, estimating work effort, and creating a budget.

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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

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Contains additional details of the deliverables than the Scope Statement does.

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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

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A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) starts with the project itelsf at which level?

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Topmost

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What is the lowest level of any Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) called?

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Work Package Level

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Which level of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) are resources, time, and cost estimates determined?

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Work Package Level (Lowest Level)

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Each level in the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) should have a ___________.

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Unique Identifier

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In a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), what is a numeric identifier known as?

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Code of Accounts

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14
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What is this image an example of?

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Code of Accounts

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Where the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) levels and work ocmponent descriptions are documented

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WBS Dictionary

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Where should these be recorded?

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WBS Dictionary

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Defines how to project is executed, how you’ll measure performance, and how it’s closed

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Project Management Plan

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All the documents and plans you’ll be using for a project make up the __________.

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Project Management Plan

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Together, the scope, schedule, and cost baseline make up what’s called the ___________.

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Performance Measurement Baseline

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Once you have approval and sign-offs, the project management plan is __________.

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Baselined

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Once you have an approved Scope Statement, a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and a WBS Dictionary, you have what is known as the ___________.

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Scope Baseline

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When is the project schedlue developed?

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After the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is completed

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What documents the planned start and finish dates of each of the tasks included on the project?

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The Schedule

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The total project duration is calculated once the ________ is complete

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Schedule

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The total project duration is calculated once the ________ is complete

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Schedule

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What is the foundation for developing a project schedule?

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Defining the list of tasks required to complete the project deliverables

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Where should each acvtivity you’ve defined be placed?

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Activity List/Task List

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The process of identifying dependency relationships between project activities and filing them in proper order

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Sequencing

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___________ are relationships between activities

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Dependencies

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A relationship between a project task and some factor outside the project that drives the scheduling of that task

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External Dependency

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A relationship between tasks within an individual project or within the organization

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Internal Dependencies

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Dependencies directly related to the type of work being performed. (AKA Hard Logic)

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Mandatory Dependencies

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A dependency that is defined by the project team and is usually a process-or-procedure-driver. (AKA Soft Logic)

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Discretionary Dependency

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An activity that comes before another activity

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Predecessor

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An activity that comes after athe activity in question

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Successor

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What is established so you can sequence tasks properly?

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Logical Relationship

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What are the four Logical Relationships?

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Finish-to-Start
Start-to-Finish
Finish-to-Finish
Start-to-Start

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FS

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Finish-to-Start

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SS

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Start-to-Start

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SF

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Start-to-Finish

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FF

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Finish-to-Finish

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A relationship where the successor activity cannot begin until the predecessor activity has completed. (The most frequently used Logical Relatinship)

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Finish-to-Start

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A relatipnship where the predecessor activity must start before the successor activity can finish

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Start-to-Finish

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A relatinpship where the predecessor activity must finish before the successor activity finishes

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Finish-to-Finish

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A relationship where the predecessor activity must start before the successor activity can start

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Start-to-Start

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What is the next step after the activity dependency relationships have been identified?

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Creating a network diagram

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47
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Depicts the project activities and the interrelationships among these activities

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Network Diagram

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What is the most commonly used network diagram method?

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Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)

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PDM

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Precedence Diagramming Method

50
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Uses boxes to represent the project milestones and arrows that represent activities

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Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)

51
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Describes the times frames in which resources are available

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Resource Calander

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Defines a particular resource or groups of resources and may also include their skills, abilities, and quantity.

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Resource Calander

53
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What is used to examine the quantity, capability, and availability of equipment and material resources that have a potential to impact the project schedule?

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Resource Calander

54
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Also known as top-down estimating

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Analogous Estimating

55
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A technique that uses actual durations from similar tasks on a previous project

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Analogous Estimation

56
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Which task estimation method is the least accurate means of obtaining an estimate?

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Analogous Estimating

57
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A technique where the people most familiar with the work determine the estimate

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Expert Judgement

58
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A quantitatively based estimating method that multiplies the quantity of work by the rate.

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Parametric Estimating

59
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An etimating method performed by obtaining individual estimates for each project activity and then adding them all to arrive at a total estimate for the work package

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Bottom-up Estimating

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Major accomplishements of the project and mark the completion of major deliverables or some other key event in the project

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Milestones

61
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Tracks the sceduled dates and actual completion dates for the major milestones

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Milestone Chart

62
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What is this an example of?

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Milestone Chart

63
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PERT

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Program Evaluation and Review Technique

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A method that the U.S. Navy developed in the 1950s

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Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)

65
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Program Evaluation and Reqiev Technique (PERT) uses three-point estimates known as the ______________ to calculate estimates for task duration

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Weighted Average

66
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What three estimates does a Weighted Average consist of?

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Optimistic
Pessimistic
Most LIkely

67
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What is “If everything goes right, when is the soonest this task could be complete?” an example of?

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Optimistic Estimate

68
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What is “If things don’t go so well, what would be the longest amount of time it would take to complete this task?” an example of?

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Pessimistic Estimate

69
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What is fthe formula to calculate the weighted average?

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Optimistic + Pessimistic + (4 x most likely)/6

70
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What is “What is most likely the amount of time it will take to complete this task?” an example of?

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Most Likely Estimate

71
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a charts that is displayed as bar charts that span the entire project timeline. Displays much of the same information a Pert chart shows

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Gnatt Chart

72
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Which charts are used for large projects, and which charts are used for medium and small projects?

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PERT-Large
Gnatt-Small

73
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CPM

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Critical Path Method

74
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Determines the amount of float time for each activity on the schedule by calculating the earliest start date, earliest finish date, and latest finish date for each task.

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Critical Path Method

75
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The amount of time you can delay the earliest start of an activity without delaying the ending of the project

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Float

76
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How much floats does a task with the same early and late start dates and the same early and late finish dates have?

What are these tasks considered?

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  • Zero
  • Critical Path Tasks
77
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The longest full path on the project

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Critical Path

78
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Also known as buffers

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Contingency Reserves

79
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When you add a cushon of extra time to give the team some breathing room if things don’t go as planned

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Contingency Reserves (Buffers)

80
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Techniques that are used to help resolve schedule slippage

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Duration Compression

81
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What are the two Duration Compression techniques?

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Crashing

Tracking

82
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A Duration Compression technique that is implemented by adding more resources to the critical path tasks in order to complete the project more quickly. Can also be used by requiring manditory overtime.

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Crashing

83
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A Duration Compression technique that performs multiple tasks in parallel that were previously scheduled to start sequentially

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Fast Tracking

84
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This is used when resources are overallocated, when they are only available at certain times, or when they are assigned to more than one activity at the same time?

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Resource Leveling

85
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Attempts to balance out the resource assignments to get tasks completed without overloading the individual. You adjust the start and finish dates of schedule activities based on the availability of resources.

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Resource Leveling

86
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What accomodates resource availability by modifying activities within their float times without changing the critical path or project end date?

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Resource Smoothing

87
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A technique that requires the resources to be scheduled in reverse order in order to assign the key resource at the correct time

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Reverse Resource Allocation Scheduling

88
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The final approved version of ahte project schedule that includes the start and finish dates and resource assignments

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Schedule Baseline

89
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Used when there are changes to noncritical path tasks.

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Revisions

90
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What is used to determine quality checks at strategic points in the project and ensure that the work is accurate and meets quality standards?

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Quality Gates

91
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What is used as additional approval checkpoints or go/no-go decision points during a project?

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Governance Gates

92
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Three types of Governance Gates

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Client Sign-Offs

Management Approval

Legislative Approval

93
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What helps assure adherense to the schedule, agreements to the dates, and agreements to resource commitments?

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Sign-Offs

94
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MVP

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Minimum Viable Product

95
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_____________ perform work in short, frequent cycles

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Agile Methodologies

96
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Large units of work (or large User Stories) such as a business requirement or features that are not usually well-defined. Contains big ideas or concepts that are not fully defined

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Epic

97
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What does a sprint kick off with?

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Sprint Planning Meeting

98
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Estimating Techniques in Agile begin with breaking down epics into _________, and then from that into ___________.

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User Stories

Individual Tasks

99
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The total cumulative hours all the team members make up together

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Team Days

100
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Iterations are also know as

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Sprints

101
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_________ are usually two to four weeks in length

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Shorts (aka Iterations)

102
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What shows the remaining time and work effort for the iteration, and can also be used to display remaining work for small projects?

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Burndown Chart

103
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A unit of measure agreed on by the team and asre used to estimate the amount of work to complete a user story

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Story Points

104
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Used in Scrum to determine how long it willtake to complete the backlog

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Velocity

105
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Reflects the speed at which the team is working

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Velocity

106
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If your average velocity is 25 story points and your project has 200 story points, how many iterations will it take to complete the project?

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8 Iterations

107
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If your average velocity is 10 story points, your project has 60 story points, and you iterations are 2 weeks in duration, how many weeks will the total duration of the project be?

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12 Weeks

108
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Your team can complete 1 user stories in 3 day. If you have 90 user stories total, how many days will it take to complete?

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270 days

109
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What pulls work from the backlog according to the team’s capacity to perform the work?

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Kanban

110
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Kanban is a visual process where the work is displayed on a board known as a _______.

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Kanban Board

111
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When a Kanban is performed, when a work is pulled from the backlog, this is known as __________.

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On-demand Scheduling (Pull-based scheduling)

112
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What is this an example of?

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Kanban Board

113
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How many cards is an Architect limited to?

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5

114
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How many cards is a Developer limited to?

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5

115
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How many cards is a Quality Assurance (QA) limited to?

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3

116
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What does the project team use to keep track of work in a Scrum methodology?

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Scrum Board (aka Task Board)

117
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What is the difference between a Scrum Board and a Kanban Board?

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Scrum Boards only shows the work of the Sprint and is only used by that one team working on the Sprint.

Kanban Boards are used by all the teams working on the project.

118
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What is this an example of?

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Scrum Board

119
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What is this an example of?

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Burndown Chart

120
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A method you can use to accommodate large projects using an agile development methodology in order to define releases, which are usually a significant feature or portion of functionality that will exist in the final product

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Agile Release Planning

121
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What is this an example of?

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Agile Release Planning

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