PMBOK Chapter 5 - Project Scope Management Flashcards

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Project Scope Management (knowledge area)

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the processes that ensure the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully

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Plan Scope Management (process)

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the process of creating a scope management plan that documents how the project scope will be defined, validated and controlled

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Collect Requirements (process)

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the process of determining, documenting, and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives

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Define Scope (process)

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the process of developing a detailed description of the project and product

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Create WBS (process)

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the process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components

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Validate Scope (process)

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the process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables

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Control Scope (process)

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the process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline

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What is product scope?

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the features and functions that characterize a product, service or result

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What is project scope?

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the work performed to deliver a product, service or result with the specified features and functions

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What is completion of the project scope measured against?

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the project management plan

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What is completion of the product scope measured against?

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the product requirements

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What is a scope management plan?

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is a component of the project management plan that describes how the scope will be defined, monitored, controlled and verified

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What is a requirements management plan?

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a component of the project management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed, documented and managed

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What are interviews?

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a formal or informal approach to elicit information from stakeholders by talking to them directly

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What are focus groups?

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bring together prequalified stakeholders and subject matter experts to learn about their expectations and attitudes about a proposed product, service or result

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What are facilitated workshops?

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focused sessions that bring key stakeholders together to define product requirements

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What are the five group creativity techniques?

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1) Brainstorming
2) Nominal group technique
3) Idea / mind mapping
4) Affinity diagrams
5) Multicriteria decision analysis

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What is brainstorming?

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technique used to generate and collect multiple ideas related to project and product requirements

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What is a nominal group technique?

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technique that enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas for further brainstorming

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What is idea/mind mapping?

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technique in which ideas created through individual brainstorming sessions are consolidated into a single map to reflect commonality and differences in understanding, and generate new ideas

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What is an affinity diagram?

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technique that allows large numbers of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis

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What is multicriteria decision analysis?

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technique that utilizes a decision matrix to provide a systematic analytical approach for establishing criteria to evaluate and rank many ideas

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What are the four types of group decision-making techniques

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1) Unanimity
2) Majority
3) Plurality
4) Dictatorship

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What is unanimity?

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everyone agrees on a single course of action. one way to reach unanimity is the Delphi technique - a selected group of experts answers questionnaires and provides feedback

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What is majority?

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a decision that is reached with support obtained from more than 50% of the members of the group

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What is plurality?

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decision that is created whereby the largest block in a group decides, even if a majority is not achieved

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What is a dictatorship?

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one individual makes the decision for the group

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What are questionnaires and surveys?

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written sets of questions designed to quickly accumulate information from a large number of respondents

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What are observations?

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provide a direct way of viewing individuals in their environment and how they perform their jobs or tasks and carry out procedures

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What are prototypes?

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a method of obtaining early feedback on requirements by providing a working model of the expected product before actually building it

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What is benchmarking?

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involves comparing actual or planned practices to those of comparable organizations to identify best practices

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What are context diagrams?

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they visually depict the product scope by showing a business system and how people and other systems interact with it

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What is document analysis?

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used to elicit requirements by analyzing existing documentation and identifying information relevant to the requirements

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What is requirements documentation?

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describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project

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What is a requirements traceability matrix?

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a grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them

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What does the scope management plan do?

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establishes the activities for developing, monitoring and controlling the project scope

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What is product analysis?

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includes techniques such as product breakdown, systems analysis, requirements analysis, systems engineering, value engineering, and value analysis

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What is alternatives generation?

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technique used to develop as many potential options as possible in order to identify different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project

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What is the project scope statement?

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the description of the project scope, major deliverables, assumptions, and constraints.

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What does a detailed project scope statement contain?

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1) Product scope description
2) Acceptance criteria
3) Deliverable
4) Project Exclusion
5) Constraints
6) Assumptions

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What is product scope description?

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progressively elaborating the characteristics of the product, service or result

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What is acceptance criteria?

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a set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted

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What is a deliverable?

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any unique and verifiable product, result or capability to perform a service that is required to be produced to complete a process, phase or project

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What is a project exclusion?

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generally identifies what is excluded from the project

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What is a constraint?

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a limiting factor that affects the execution of a project or process

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What is an assumption?

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a factor in the planning process that is considered to be true, real, or certain, without proof or demonstration.

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What is the WBS?

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Work Breakdown Structure – a hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables

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What is a work package?

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the lowest level/component of the WBS

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What is decomposition?

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technique used for dividing and subdividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller, more manageable parts

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What is the scope baseline?

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the approved version of a scope statement, work breakdown structure, and its associated WBS dictionary, that can only be changed through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison

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What are verified deliverables?

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project deliverables that are completed and checked for correctness through the Control Quality process

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What is Inspection?

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includes activities such as measuring, examining, and validating to determine whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria

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What is variance analysis?

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technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance