Chapter 4 Flashcards
(26 cards)
What are the 5 steps in defining the project?
- Defining the project scope
- Establishing project priorities
- Creating the Work Breakdown Structure
- Integrating the WBS with the organization
- Coding the WBS for the Informartion System
What is project scope management?
the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully
What is product scope?
The features and functions that characterize a product
What is project scope?
the work the needs to be accomplished to deliver a product within the specified features and functions
a definition of the end result or mission of the project
What is the Scope Mangement Plan (SMP)?
a document that includes descriptions of how the team will prepare the project scope statement, create the WBS, verify completion of the project deliverables, and control requests for changes to the project scope
What are key inputs of the scope management plan (SMP)?
project charter
preliminary scope statement
project management plan
What is the purpose of the scope statement?
- to clearly define the deliverables for the end user
- to focus the project on successful completion of its goals
- to be used as a planing tool and for measuring project success.
What is included in the project scope checklist?
- Project objective
- Deliverables
- Milestones
- technical requirements
- Limits and exclusions
- reviews with customer
What is the project charter?
- Can contain an expanded version of scope statement
- A document authorizing the project manager to initiate and lead the project
What is collect requirements?
the process of defining and documenting stakeholders’ needs
It is about defining and managing customer expectation
What is project scope statement
describes in detail, the project’s deliverables and the work required to create those deliverable
Product scope description
elaborates the characteristics of the product
product acceptance criteria
defines the process and criteria for accepting the completed product
project deliverables
includes the product and the project management reports
project exclusions
what is out of scope
project constraints
constraints associated with project scope
What is the cause for project trade-offs?
Shifts in the relative importance of criterions related to cost, time, and performance
constrain
enhance
accept
fixed requirement
optimizing over others
reducing requirement
What is a Work Breakdown Structure?
Identifies the products and work elements involved in a project
Defines the relationship of the final deliverable to its subdeliverables
Best suited for tangible outcomes
How does WBS help project managers?
- Facilitate evaluation of cost, time, and technical performance
- provides information appropriate to each organizational level
- helps in the development of the organization breakdown structure
- helps plan, schedule, and budget
- defines communication channels
What is a work package
short-duration taks
- defined start and stop
- consumes resources
- represent cost
what, how long, cost, how much, who, milestone
What is an Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)?
depicts how the firm is organized to discharge its work responsibility
- Provides framework to summarize organization work unit performance
- identifies organization units repsonsible for work packages
- ties organizational units to cost control accounts
What does WBS coding define
- levels and elements of the WBS
- organization elements
- work packages
- budget and cost information
What is a responsibility matrix
summarized the tasks to be accomplished and who is responsible for what on the project
- lists project activities and participants
- clarifies critical interfaces between units and individuals that need coordination
- provide means for all participants to view their responsibilities and agree on their assignments
- clarifies extend of authority that can be exercised by each participant
