All Cards Flashcards
(383 cards)
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What Communication Type is recommended to first address the problem of a team member underachieving?
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Informal Verbal
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2 stakeholders discuss inconformity with the project. What communication type should be used?
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Informal Verbal
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What is often forgotten in communications management plans?
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Functional Managers
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Best tool when a manager is working with team members of different cultures:
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Well developed interpersonal skills
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Agile methods rely on this to deliver value:
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Product Owner’s Feedback
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What is “Start with current state” a principle of?
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Kanban process
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What is “Encourage acts of leadership at all levels” a principle of?
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Kanban process
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What is “Agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change” a principle of?
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Kanban process
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What is “ROI”?
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Return on Investment
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What is more likely to suffer if an organization is averse to early value creation?
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Return on Investment (ROI)
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Which practice prefers to pull features from the backlog based on its capacity rather than an iteration-based schedule?
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Flow-Based Agile
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Who made Motivational Theory of two types of employees?
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McGregor
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Agile Methodology based on frequent cycles to to increase responsiveness towards customer’s changing requirements. Uses “Programing in pairs”
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XP
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Agile Methodology known for its emphasis on constraint-driven delivery
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DSDM
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Agile Methodology derived from the JIT philosophy
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Kanban
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Agile Methodology that integrates several agile best practices into a comprehensive model
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Disciplined Agile
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Ability to question every change request is:
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NOT a key attribute for Agile teams
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Type of organization in which PM has limited authority and team members do not report to PM
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Functional Organization
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Overall scope not defined
Rollout & reapplication processes predicted
What Project Management Methodology to use?
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Hybrid
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What is the back-bone of any agile-led project?
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Cross-Functional Teams
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What tool/technique is used for IT software tools?
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Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
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Tools/Techniques: Where the individual modes of communications are documented for each stakeholder?
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Stakeholder Engagement Plan
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Project Management Methodology: Which one focuses on early value creation?
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Incremental
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Individuals needs to be constantly motivated
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McGregor’s Theory X
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Individuals are intrinsically motivated to do good work
McGregor’s Theory Y
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Individuals are motivated by self-realization
Ouchi’s Theory Z
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In an Earned Value Management, EV - AC:
Cost Variance
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Tools/Techniques: Where to document quality assumptions?
Quality Management Plan
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Tools/Techniques: Where can you find the economic feasibility report?
Project Business Case
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Tools/Techniques: Where you can find activities?
Schedule Management Plan
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Executing a given iteration for a few weeks, gathering insight and then rework based on insight
Timeboxing
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Inputs/Outputs: What is the key input of the Plan Risk Management process?
Risk Breakdown Structure
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Agile approach that uses Scrum as a framework and Kanban for process improvement?
Scrumban
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The purpose of a quality audit is:
Identify inefficient policies
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Is cycle time going up positive or negative?
Negative
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What is the first step when you notice a tren upwards in cycle time?
Brainstorm to understand whats happening
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What to do if a senior manager is worried the project will not meet quality standards?
Involve Quality Team
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What to do after completion of Work Packages? (Planning)
Identify quality standards
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Tools/Techniques: Demonstrate the relationship between events and their resulting effects
Why-Why Diagram (Cause-and-Effect, Fishborne)
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Plans where poorly translated. What is the first thing to do?
Look for how it impacted project quality
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The rate at which a company is spending money
Burn Rate
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Terms to Know: Estimated value of the work planned
PV - Planned Value
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Terms to Know: Estimated Value of work accomplished
EV - Earned Value
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Terms to Know: Actual cost for work accomplished
AC - Actual Cost
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Terms to Know: Budget for total project effort
BAC - Budget at Completion
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Terms to Know: Total Project cost expected
EAC - Estimate at Completion
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Terms to Know: Expected cost to finish project
ETC - Estimate to Complete
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Terms to Know: Expected Over/Under budget at end of project
VAC - Variance at Completion
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Formulas to Memorize: Cost Variance
EV - AC
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Formulas to Memorize: Schedule Variance
EV - PV
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Formulas to Memorize: Cost Performance Index
EV / AC
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Formulas to Memorize: SPI
EV / PV
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Formulas to Memorize: Estimate to Complete
EAC - AC
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Formulas to Memorize: VAC
BAC - EAC
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Formulas to Memorize: To-Complete Performance Index
(BAC - EV) / (BAC - AC)
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Formulas: Estimate at Completion if you intend to spend at the same rate
EAC = BAC / CPI
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What technique does Analogous estimating uses?
Top-Down technique
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In agile/hybrid, How is a team’s burn rate over time
Consistent
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Which agile tool shows the latest estimate of how long the project is expected to take?
Burndown graph
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In which project management process group is Rough order of Magnitude (ROM) calculated?
Initiating
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ITTO: Cost Baseline is an output of:
7.3 Determine Budget
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How is an Agile Team’s Velocity in a long term project?
Initial Variation, Emerging Stability
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What is the best way of estimating if there is limited information?
Estimate in a range
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Monitoring cost expended to detect variances occurs during:
Project performance reviews
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What is the relationship between cost management plan and WBS?
CMP identifies WBS level at which earned value will be calculated
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ITTO: What estimating technique is another way of saying “past history”
Analogous estimating
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The difference between cost baseline and cost budget is
Management Reserves
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What is the final step before freezing the project budget?
Funding limit reconciliation
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A sprint/iteration is never complete till
Sprint review meeting & documented retrospectives
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As a CSM, what strategy to use if your team is inexperienced?
Building centre of competencies
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Benefit: Education on Agile mindset for executives
Executive Buy-In
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Benefit: Explaining Agile in terms of lean thinking
Executive buy-in
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Benefit: Find common ground and areas of improvement based on project needs
Executive buy-in
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In Agile, where to discuss issues of knowledge management
Retrospective
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As a CSM, what is the best strategy to manage an organization where Agile terms do not fit culture?
Modify terms, keep the intent
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Terms to know: Only a few top level WBS identified, the remaining are elaborated through the project
Roll-Wave Planning
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Terms to know: Analyzing enough stories so the team understands what they are
Backlog Refinement
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What are the X and Y axis of a Release Burndown Chart?
X: Sprints
Y: Work Remaining
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Terms to Know: Prioritization method that separates requirements in Must, Should, Could and Won’t
MoSCoW Prioritization
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Terms to Know: Metric to determine Agile team’s performance over time
Velocity
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ITTO: Output of Scope Statement + WBS Creation + WBS Dictionary
Scope Baseline
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Agile: What is the first step after you collect user story baseline?
Product Roadmap
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Terms to Know: Prioritized matrix that described product features that team will deliver in each release
Product Roadmap
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What is an external situation that can be a priority over all of your internal situations?
Government approval
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Terms to Know: Acknowledging risk through contingencies of resources
Risk Acceptance
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Terms to Know: Standard way of validating scope and refining requirements in Agile
Prototyping
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Terms to Know: Description of activities by identifying multiple components associated
Activity Attributes
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Terms to Know: Project Life Cycle where works centers on a Minimum Viable Product to validate with customers
Exploratory
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Terms to Know: Outcome of actions, behaviors, products, services or results that provide value to organization and project’s beneficiaries
Benefits Management Plan
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Terms to Know: Used to appraise team member skills
Focused Group Discussions (FGD)
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Terms to Know: Responsibility Assignment Matrix used to delineate Roles & Responsibilities
RACI chart (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed)
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Terms to Know: Stakeholders describe aspects of a solution in the same way a marketer describes product features on a box
Product Box Exercise
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Terms to Know: Contract between Vendor and end user that captures success criteria
Service Level Agreements (SLA)
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Terms to Know: Tool for Identification of external factors that may affect outcomes of project
PESTLE Analysis (Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal & Environmental)
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Terms to Know: Prioritization approach for features on a product roadmap on the degree to which they are likely to satisfy customers
Kano Model
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Terms to Know: Prioritization method in which each person is given 100 points to distribute across items
100 Points Method
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Terms to Know: Prioritization approach based on evaluating a small range of options by comparing them against each other
Paired Comparison Analysis
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In Agile, Learning from experience and making small improvements is a benefit of:
Retrospective
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In Agile, getting feedback for product testing is a benefit of:
Sprint Review Meeting
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In Agile, developing actions to remove impediments is a benefit of:
Retrospective
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In Agile, agreeing to 1-2 experiments to improve team performance is a benefit of:
Retrospective
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In Agile, periodically demonstrating a working product is a benefit of:
Sprint Review Meeting
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Terms to Know: Defines whether waterfall, iterative, adaptive, agile or hybrid will be used:
Development approach
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Five levels of Phillips ROI Methodology:
Reaction, Learning, Application & Implementation, Results, ROI
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Terms to know: Technique that enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas in a scale of 1-5
Nominal Group Technique
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Why the response times are displayed above the upper control limit?
The quality is outside of expected standards
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ITTO: Scope Management Plan is an output of:
Plan Scope Management
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ITTO: Requirements Management Plan is an Output of
5.1 Plan Scope Management
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ITTO: Requirements Traceability Matrix is an output of
Collect Requirements
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ITTO: Requirements Documentation is an output of
Collect Requirements
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ITTO: Project Scope Statement is an output of
5.3 Define Scope
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ITTO: Scope Baseline is an Output of
5.4 Create WBS
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ITTO: Accepted Deliverables is an output of
5.5 Validate Scope
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ITTO: Quality Management Plan is an output of
8.1 Plan Quality Management
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ITTO: Quality Metrics is an output of
8.1 Plan Quality Management
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ITTO: Quality Reports is an output of
8.2 Manage Quality
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ITTO: Quality Control Measurements is an output of
8.3 Control Quality
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ITTO: Verified Deliverables is an output of
8.3 Control Quality
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ITTO: Communication Management Plan is an output of
Plan Communication Management
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ITTO: Project Communications is an output of
10.2 Manage Communications
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ITTO: Cost Management Plan is an output of
7.1 Plan Cost Management
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ITTO: Cost Estimates is an output of
7.2 Estimate Costs
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ITTO: Basis of Estimates is an output of
7.2 Estimate Costs
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ITTO: Cost Baseline is an output of
7.3 Determine Budget
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ITTO: Cost Forecasts is an output of
7.4 Control Costs
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Terms to Know: Measuring an organization’s performance against that of other organization
Benchmarking
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Terms to Know: Technique where ideas are grouped by similarities
Affinity Diagrams
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Terms to Know: Diagram of ideas to help generate, classify or record information
Mind Maps
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Terms to Know: Technique that shows the boundaries of the project scope by highlighting the product and its interfaces with people, processes or sustems
Context Diagrams
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What takes precedence over everything in Balancing Requirements?
Customer’s Needs
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PMBOK Guide: Scope Management Process
1. Plan Scope Management (P)
2. Collect Requirements (P)
3. Define Scope (P)
4. Create WBS (P)
5. Validate Scope (M&C)
6. Control Scope (M&C)
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Terms to Know: Document that says “Here is what we will do on this project”
Project Scope Statement
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Relationship between Decomposition/Deconstruction and WBS
Decomposition/Deconstruction is what you are doing, WBS is the tool to do it
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What is the difference between Validate Scope and Control Quality
Control Quality is checked by Quality Team, Validate Scope is checked by Customer
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In agile, if after a meeting there is no consensus, what is the next step?
Voting
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How to provide feedback to agile team’s solution design?
Review the early, incomplete increments
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What is a general consequence of requirements constantly changing?
Makes measurement of completeness difficult
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The Integration Management Process:
1. Develop Project Charter
2. Develop Project Management Plan
3. Direct and Manage Project Work
4. Manage Project Knowledge
5. Monitor and Control Project Work
6. Perform Integrated Change Control
7. Close Project or Phase
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ITTO: Where is the Business Case?
Project Charter
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What is the difference between High-Level Requirements and Requirements?
High-Level Requirements are in the Project Charter, Requirements are defined in Scope processes
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ITTO: Where is the project exit criteria?
Project Charter
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What is often the cause of significant deviation from the Project Baselines?
Incomplete Risk Identification/Management
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ITTO: Issue Log is an output of
4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
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High Degree of Change, High Frequency of Delivery:
Agile
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High Degree of Change, Low Frequency of Delivery:
Iterative
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Low Degree of Change, High Frequency of Delivery
Incremental
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Low Degree of Change, Low Frequency of Delivery
Predictive
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Where can you see who’s responsible for authorizing change in a project?
Change Management Plan
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What sampling strategy to use if you want to separate in categories?
Attribute sampling
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ITTO: What tool can be used to show how requirements grew during the project?
Feature Chart
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Who should be contacted first for resources in a matrix-type organization?
Functional Manager
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What is always the first step when any change comes up?
Documenting the change / Creating a Change Request
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After stakeholders are identified and you have their requirements, who should you involve in the creation of the scope baseline?
Project Team
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Recommended actions for Schedule Compression
Crashing & Fast Tracking
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Which contracting technique is not recommended for Agile?
FFP (Firm Fixed Price)
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Difference between Work Performance Data and Work Performance Information
Work Performance Data is gathered through execution. To become information, it is compared with Project Management Plan Components
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Tool that evaluates the degree to which the data about individual project risks is accurate and reliable
Risk Data Quality Assessment
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Best Life Cycle for project-based work and disciplined teams, with quickly evolving requirements
Lean
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Best Life Cycle for project-based work and teams new to iteration-based management
Agile
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In which phase of DAD (Disciplined Agile Delivery) does the team shift from “solution” to “production”?
Transition
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DAD (Disciplined Agile Delivery) full delivery cycle:
Inception, Construction, Transition
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ITTO: Risk Probability and Impact Assessment is a key T&T of:
11.3 Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
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In which process do you determine Workarounds for a previously unforeseen risk?
11.7 Monitor Risks
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During which process do you use the Power-Interest Grid?
13.1 - Identify Stakeholders
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What type of leadership allows the team to make their own decisions and establish their own goals?
Laissez-Faire
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Which way of managing improves the product via successive prototypes or proof of concept?
Iterative
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What is the next step after the project management plan and baselines are approved?
Hold project kick-off meeting
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The Kick-Off Meeting marks:
End of Planning, Start of Executing
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Agile practice where the team meets to micro commit to each other, uncover problems and ensure smooth work flow
Daily Standups
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What to do after 6.1 Plan Schedule Management and 6.2 Define Activities for a project are complete?
6.3 Sequence Activities
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What is a common example of Cost of Conformance, in the context of Cost of Quality?
Training
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Organizational Structure that standardizes project-related governance processes
PMO
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ITTO: Tool used in 9.1 Plan Resource Management which maps specific resources to work packages from WBS
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
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What does SPI < 1 means for a complete project?
The project was prematurely closed
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Type of contract where the seller is reimbursed for all allowable costs and receives predetermined incentive fee
CPIF
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Type of contract that provides buyer and seller flexibility for deviation from performance, and financial pay-offs tied to achieve metrics
FPIF
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In which process does the Risk Register gets established for the first time?
11.2 - Identify Risks
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Any breach of contract is first categorized as:
A Legal Risk
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ITTO: Lessons Learned Register is an output of
4.4 - Manage Project Knowledge
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What is the next step after completing Qualitative and Quantitative risk analysis?
11.5 - Plan Risk Responses
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ITTO: Most important Output of Control Procurements
Closed Procurements
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What is the PMI Talent Triangle?
Leadership, Technical Project Management, Strategic & Business Management
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ITTO: Requirements Traceability Matrix is an output of
5.2 - Collect Requirements
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What is the category of least risky contracts for sellers?
Cost-Reimbursable
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Formulas to Know: Point of Total Assumption
(CP - TP)
PTA = ——— + TC
BSR
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Practice of doing activities that were originally planned in series, in parallel
Fast Tracking
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Best Practice when you need to accelerate a Schedule without availability of resources
Fast Tracking
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Contingency Plans are also known as:
Fallback Plan
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ITTO: Process that generates Work Performance Variances as one of its Outputs
5.6 - Control Scope
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How should you account for unknown risks?
Management Reserves
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Cost Baseline + Management Reserve
Project Budget
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Work Packages Cost Estimates + Contingency Reserves
Control Accounts
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Activity Cost Estimates + Activity Contingency Reserve
Work Packages Cost Estimates
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What is the purpose of a Kill Point Meeting or Phase Gate?
Make a decision to whether or not to go ahead with a project
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What two positions, and what level of power, can quickly indicate you are working in a Weak Matrix?
Project Coordinator & Project Expediter with low power
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Type of organization in which everyone responds to the owner
Organic or Simple
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Type of organization in which Project Manager and Functional Manager have 50%-50% power
Balanced Matrix Organization
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Type of organization in which PM has all the power, and resources are released after project is finished
Project-Oriented
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Difference between Contingency Reserves and Management Reserves
Contingency is for Known Unknowns, Management is for Unknown Unknowns
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ITTO: Issue Log is an Output of
4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
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ITTO: Lesson Learned Register is an output of
4.4 Manage Project Knowledge
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What you should do if a work activity takes longer than estimated?
Request corrective action
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What is another work for Defect Repair?
Rework
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ITTO: What is Approved Change Requests an Output of?
4.6 Perform Integrated Change Control
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What are the three main categories of changes?
Corrective Action, Preventive Action, Defect Repair
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When does changes need to formally go through the 4.6 Perform Integrated Change Control Process?
After Project Charter, Project Management Plan and baseline are approved
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Terms to Know: CCB
Change Control Board
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ITTO: what is “Final Product, Service or Result Transition” an output of?
4.7 Close Project or Phase
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What is the best approach in a well-planned project regarding changes?
Prevent unnecessary changes (proactive)
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What to do if there are not more funds for a project?
Proceed to 4.7 Closing Project or Phase
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Are lessons learned part of the Change Management Process?
No. Lessons Learned are for future projects
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What is a common use of the Project Charter while work is being completed?
Helps determine if a scope change should be approved
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In an Agile Environment, what can be replaced by a risk burndown chart, risk-adjusted backlog and risk-based spikes?
A formal Risk Management Plan
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Agile tools for risk management:
Risk burndown chart, risk-adjusted backlog, risk-based spikes
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What happens if a PM delegates all activities to team members?
Poor performance and chaos
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What type of depreciation uses the same amount each time period?
Straight-line depreciation
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What is the best way to approach managing change in any type of project
As low as possible in the cost of change curve
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What does the phrase “influencing the factors that affect change” means?
Determining source of change, fix root cause
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What does tacit knowledge includes?
Emotions, experience and abilities
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What does explicit knowledge includes?
Fact-based knowledge
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ITTO: Make-or-Buy decisions are outputs of
12.1 Plan Procurement Management
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ITTO: Source Selection Criteria is an Output of
12.1 Plan Procurement Management
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ITTO: Bid Documents are an output of
12.1 Plan Procurement Management
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ITTO: Independent Cost Estimates are an Output of
12.1 Plan Procurement Management
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ITTO: Selected Sellers are an Output of
12.2 Conduct Procurements
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ITTO: Agreements are Output of
12.2 Conduct Procuremenets
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ITTO: Closed Procurements are an Output of
12.3 Control Procurements
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Difference between Centralized and Decentralized Contracting
Centralized there is one procurement department, decentralized there is not
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What are the three broad categories of contracts?
Fixed Price, Time and Material, Cost-Reimbursable
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Terms to know: Contract in which a total price is set for all project and changes to scope should not occur
FP (Fixed Price)
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Terms to Know: Fixed Contract in which profits can be adjusted based on performance criteria
FPIF (Fixed Price Incentive Fee)
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Terms to Know: Fixed Contract in which the buyer pays the seller an award based on performance
FPAF (Fixed Price Award Fee)
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Terms to know: Fixed Contract in which economic price adjustments are included (good for multi year projects)
FPEPA (Fixed Price with Economic Price Adjustment)
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Terms to Know: Agile Fixed Contract in which the rate of payment varies depending on the schedule variance
Graduated Fixed Price
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Terms to Know: Simplest Fixed Price Contract
Purchase Order
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Terms to Know: Type of Contract in which Buyer pays on a per-hour or per-item basis
T&M (Time and Material)
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Terms to Know: Type of Contract in which the buyer to pay the seller allowable incurred costs
CR (Cost Reimbursable)
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Terms to Know: Type of Cost Reimbursable Contract in which the seller receives no fee (appropriate for nonprofit organizations)
Cost Contract
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Terms to Know: Type of Cost Reimbursable Contract in which the buyer pays the actual cost plus a negotiated fee
CPIF (Cost Plus Fixed Fee)
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Terms to Know: Type of contract in which the buyer pays a target cost plus a target fee, and in which the savings are split between buyer and seller
CPIF (Cost Plus Incentive Fee)
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Terms to Know: Type of Cost Reimbursable contract in which the buyer pays all costs and a base fee plus an award based on performance
CPAF (Cost Plus Award Fee)
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Terms to Know: Cost Reimbursable Contract that requires the buyer to pay for all costs plus a percentage of costs as a fee
Cost Plus Fee (CPF)
| Cost Plus Percentage of Costs (CPPC)
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Difference between Price and Cost
Price is the amount the seller charges the buyer. Cost is how much an item costs the seller to creare
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Terms to know: Target Cost + Target Fee
Target Price
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Terms to know: Contractual Relationship
Privity
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Terms to Know: the amount of money the seller has after costs are paid
Profit or Fee
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Terms to Know: The difference between Target Cost and Actual Cost
Actual Fee (commonly used for sharing)
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Terms to Know: Target Fee + Seller Cost Share
Final Fee
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Terms to know: Actual Cost + Target Fee + Seller Cost Share
Final Price
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Terms to Know: Amount above which the seller bears all the loss of a cost overrun in FPIF
Point of Total Assumption (PTA)
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Terms to Know: The fee which the seller wants to charge for the work he is doing
Target Fee
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When are procurements closed?
When a contract is completed or terminated
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ITTO: Signed contracts is an Output of
12.2 Conduct Procurements
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Contract Questions are asked from who’s perspective? (unless otherwise noted)
Buyer
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What is a key advantage of Time and Material contract?
Negotiations are less extensive
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RFP, RFI and RFQ are:
Bid documents
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When is it generally better to perform work internally instead of outside?
When using an outside company means you lose control of proprietary data
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What happens when a seller does not perform according to contract terms and conditions?
The seller defaulted and PM must take action
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Short proof of concept to investigate an issue further
Spike
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ITTO: Team Charter is a an Output of
9.1 Plan Resource Management
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ITTO: Team Charter is an Output of:
9.1 Plan Resource Management
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ITTO: Resource Requirements are an Output of
9.2 Estimate Activity Resources
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ITTO: Besides Estimate Costs, Basis of Estimates are an Output of:
9.2 Estimate Activity Resources
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ITTO: Resource Breakdown Structure is an Output of
9.2 Estimate Activity Resources
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ITTO: Physical Resource Assignments are an Output of
9.3 Acquire Resources
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ITTO: Project Team Assignments are an Output of
9.3 Acquire Resources
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ITTO: Resource Calendars are an output of
9.3 Acquire Resources
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ITTO: Team Performance Assessments are an Output of
9.4 Develop Team
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ITTO: Work Performance Information is an Output of
All the Monitoring and Control Processes, except for the Integration ones (Monitor Work, Perform Integrated Change Control)
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PMBOK 9. Resources
1. Plan Resource Management (P)
2. Estimate Activity Resources (P)
3. Acquire Resources (E)
4. Develop Team (E)
5. Manage Team (E)
6. Control Resources (M&C)
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ITTO: Chart that cross-references team members with the activities or work packages they are to accomplish
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
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ITTO: Document that describes the approach the team will take regarding communications, decision making and conflict resolution
Team Charter
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Life cycle that takes advantage of things that are known and proven
Predictive
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Life cycle that provides deliverables that can be used immediately
Incremental
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Life cycle that allows feedback on partially completed work
Iterative
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Life cycle that provides deliverables that can be used immediately
Incremental
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Life cycle that employs both iterative and incremental characteristics
Agile
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Life cycle that combines aspects of both predictive and agile methods
Hybrid
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Tool that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them
Requirements traceability matrix
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If a problem states that planning is meticulously followed, where does a problem might lie?
In any of the other 4 processes group
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ITTO: Which input of Acquire Resources identifies the working days of each specific resource
Resource calendars
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In Agile Manifesto, Individuals and Interactions over
Processes and Tools
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In Agile Manifesto, Working Software over
Comprehensive documentation
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In Agile Manifesto, customer collaboration over
Contract negotiations
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In Agile Manifesto, responding to chance over
Following a plan
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“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise until his/her level of incompetence”
The halo effect
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What should be done first if you need to determine the acceptable level of overall project risk exposure
Determine risk appetite of key stakeholders
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What to do first if there is confusion on the type and quantity of resources needed (in planning)
Research various levels of resource capability and skills, type and sizes
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Process in which 99.99966% of the products produced by the process are free of defects?
Six Sigma
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The team never implemented an approved change request. How to prevent this situation?
Holding an approved change requests review
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Decomposition may not be possible for a deliverable or subcomponent far into the future. What technique is useful?
Rolling Wave
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The value of the alternative that is not chosen
Opportunity Cost
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Amount Invested - probable return
Earned Monetary Value
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In the Scope Baseline, what goes after the first step, creating the project scope statement?
Identify control accounts for the WBS
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What is the Tuckman ladder?
Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning
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What separates Stewards from Leaders, Managers and Scrum Masters?
Compliance
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Control Chart is a tool used for
Data Representation
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Formulas to Know: EAC when initial estimates were fundamentally flawed
EAC = AC + Bottom-Up ETC
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Formulas to Know: EAC when variance built up in your actual costs but you plan to keep on spending the same way without any corrective action
EAC = BAC / CPI
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Formulas to Know: EAC when work is completed at a planned rate after corrections
EAC = AC + (BAC-EV)
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Formulas to Know: EAC when deadlines for the project are very tight and the cost is mainly high do to crashing of activities
EAC = AC + [(BAC - EV) / CPI / SPI]
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What to do after the CCB and the sponsor approves a Change Request?
Implement the Change Request
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What is the mandatory next step after finishing a sprint?
Retrospective
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Sequence of effective stakeholder engagement
IUAPEM (Identify, Understand, Analyze, Prioritize, Engage, Monitor)
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Variance at Completion in an Earned Value Measure
AC - PV
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Document that enlists the project deliverables
Project Scope Statement
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A stakeholder is skeptical about the project success criteria. What to do?
Develop Stakeholder Engagement Assessment Matrix
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You need to outsource part of the project scope. What project artifact should you revise?
Procurement Management Plan
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Tool that shows Story Points completed vs Planned
Iteration Burnup Chart
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As a servant leader, what to do if you are putting fires off everyday?
Identify Risks and follow a Risk Management Plan
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Life Cycle recommended if you need to organize a large team of teams
Program Life Cycle
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ITTO: Communication Channel used in Agile in which long-lived video conferencing links are established between team members of various geography
Fishbowl Window
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ITTO: Technique that focuses on customer/end user behavior rather than client requirements
Behavior driven development
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ITTO: Method of collaboratively creating acceptance criteria used to create acceptance tests by customer before delivery begins
Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
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Preliminary check of a software after a build and before release
Smoke Testing
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Kanban-Oriented Life cycle where the team visualize their work, reduce work in streamline and pull works in the team based on capacity
Lean
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Why a senior developer is invited into a daily stand up?
Having correct stakeholders in meetings is a routine agile practice
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What life cycle to use if its difficult for the team to plan anything beyond 2 days?
Lean
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Time needed to recover an investment
Payback period
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Future value of expected benefits expressed in the value those benefits have at the time of investment
Net Present Value
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Percent Return on an initial investment, calculated by taking the projected average of all net benefits and dividing them by the initial cost
Return on Investment
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Projected Annual Yield of a project investment, incorporating both initial and ongoing costs into an estimates percentage growth rate a given project is expected to have
Internal Rate of Return
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Present value of all cash outflows minus the present value of all cash inflows
Net Present Value
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What is the best leadership style to use?
Most fitting for the team
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Working Days and Availability of Physical Resources are components of
Resource Calendar
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Documentation tool that captures information about stakeholders
Stakeholder Register
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Stakeholders who will receive communication about the project will appear in which documents?
Communications Management Plan
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You are leading an estimation session. What skill are you mentoring?
Facilitation
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Main focus of Quality Assurance
Process and Procedures, improved quality
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High level objective of a Retrospective
Generating insights
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Project Artifact to see connection between Requirements and Project Objectives
Requirements Traceability Matrix
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To how many people should an issue in the issue box be assigned to?
One person
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Is the Stakeholder Register part of Communications Management Plan?
No
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In a Multi-Phase Project, when are assumptions validated and risks analyzed?
At the beginning of each phase
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Organization structure for which the team may develop its own set of operating procedures and operate outside the standard formalized reporting structure during the project
Composite
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Tool to measure happiness of users of the new service based on their willingness to encourage others to use the service
Net Promoter Score
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Best statement to describe Stakeholder Engagement Assessment Matrix?
It compares the current and desired levels of engagement of each stakeholder
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Two terms that refers to decision to continue with the next phase or end the project
Kill point & Phase Gate
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Methodology to test possible solutions, assess the results and implement those that work
Plan Do Study Act
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Father of Continuous Improvement Movement
Deming
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Best elicitation technique when your project team wants to facilitate a discussion with a certain set of users for a better understanding on how they might use a product
Focus group
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Name two Quality Management Tools used to identify issues
Audit Reports & Design for X
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Methods to prioritize project objectives and deliverables
Paired Comparisons & MOSCOW
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Role of a Configuration Management System
Control versioning of all components
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Rules about the length of a Sprint
1-4 weeks
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Agile technique that helps uncover the areas we are likely to create the greatest impact for a particular goal
Impact Mapping
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At what level are roadmaps used?
High-Level
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At what level are epics used?
High-Level
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A trend of stories is incomplete and No blockers where identified. What to do?
Break down the stories
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Two things at the heart of DevOps
Early and constant collaboration between Development and Operations & automation of both domains
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In the event that a Product Owner needs to attend less meetings in an Agile Project, which are the high priority & low priority meetings?
High: Customer Related (e.g. End-User feedback)
Low: Administrative Processes (e.g. Daily Meeting, team performance review)
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Formulas to know: Triangular Distribution
(Optimistic + Most Likely + Pessimistic)/3
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In an Agile Project, what does it mean that value increases over time?
The backlog was not prioritized for time to value
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Who is responsible for officially signing off on project deliverables at the closeout?
Project Sponsor
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Scrum equivalent of a task start dependency
Definition of Ready
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Scrum equivalent of task exit criteria
Definition of Done
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In Agile, who has the authority to decide termination of a project?
Product Owner
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What does Agile favors over formal data collection processes or competitor analysis
Direct and practical user feedback
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Practice that ensures a quality standard before development
TDD (Test Driven Development)
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How is agile adoption enabled?
Through Communicating & Demonstration of benefits
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The ability to effectively guide a group to a successful conclusion
Facilitate
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Difference between stakeholder register and stakeholder engagement plan
Register includes all stakeholders and their involvement. Engagement Plan reflects any situations that affects engagement of stakeholders
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Terms to know: Large user story that can be split into smaller stories
Epic
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When are questionnaires used?
Before project starts
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Method for classifying stakeholders and to decide who matters
Salience Model
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A good option to decide who should represent a team in the Scrum of Scrums
DevOps
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Software development methodology intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to change
Extreme Programming (XP)
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Method of frequent delivery apps to customers by introducing automation into stages of app development
CI/CD (Continuous Integration)
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A new board comes to make changes in an Agile team. How to approach?
Add it to the Backlog
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The Product Owner works and supports:
The CEO and Business
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A Small, self-contained feature that can be developed quickly and that delivers significant value to the user
MMF (Minimum Marketable Feature)
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Difference between MMF and MVP
MMF is about delivering value to customers, MVP is about learning more about the ultimate product
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Extension of Pair Programming where the whole team works on the same thing at the same time in the same spacr
Mob Programming (Mobbing)
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Agile Practice that provides the most complete set of methods specifically for the needs of large software development
Feature Driven Development
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Three types of PMO
Supportive, Controlling, Directive
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Types of Matrix Organization:
Weak & Strong
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Difference between Weak and Strong Matrix
Weak: Power rests in Functional Manager
Strong: Power rests in Project Manager
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What are the 7 project constraints
Cost, Schedule, Scope, Quality, Risk, Resources, Customer Satisfaction
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Cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy solution in the present rather than using a better one even if it takes more time
Technical Debt
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Main difference between Burnup and Burndown Charts
Burnup shows the effects of scope
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Difference between Internal Failure vs External Failure
Internal Failure happens before the customer has the product. External Failure happens when the customer has the product
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Set of items that needs to be completed before a project or user story can be considered complete
Definition of Done
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States what is needed for an item to be ready to be worked on
Definition of Ready
