Chapter 5

Question 1

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

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Plan Scope Management

Question 2

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

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Collect Requirements

Question 3

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

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Define Scope

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Create WBS

Question 5

process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables

Answer 5

Validate Scope

Question 6

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

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Control Scope

Question 7

The features and functions that characterize a product, service, or results

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Product Scope

Question 8

the work performed to deliver a product, service, or result the specified feature and functions.

Answer 8

Project Scope

Question 9

_______ define deliverables at the beginning while ________ are defined over multiple iterations.

Answer 9

1) Predictive

2) Adaptive/Agile

Question 10

Scope: Three processes repeated at each iteration.

Answer 10

1) Collect requirements
2) Define Scope
3) Create WBS.

Question 11

validate scope and control scope repeated at each iteration

Answer 11

Adaptive/Agile

Question 12

Validate scope occurs at each deliverable or phase review and control scope is ongoing

Answer 12

Predictive

Question 13

Scope Baseline Predictive has:

Answer 13

• approved version of the project scope statement.
• work break down structure (WBS)
• Its associated WBS Dictionary

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

WBS (Work Break-Down Structure)

Question 15

lowest level of WBS component that contains planned work and used to group activities where work is scheduled, estimated, monitored, and controlled.

Answer 15

Work Packages

Question 16

contains highest level of info. Includes the purpose, measurable objectives.

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Project Charter

Question 17

contains detailed description of the scope component. Includes project scope description, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and project exclusions.

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Project Scope Statement

Question 18

Uses decision matrix to provide a systematic analytical approach for establishing criteria in order to refine the project and product scope for the project

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Multicriteria decision analysis

Question 19

defines product and services; describes use, characteristics, and other relevant aspects of what is going to be delivered. Involves: Product Breakdown, Required Analysis, System Analysis, System Engineering, Value analysis, value engineering.

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Product Analysis

Question 20

1) Starts with needs assessment;
2) Then collaborating with business analysis for determining problems/business needs, identify viable solutions; elicit, document, and manage stakeholder requirements; facilitate successful implementation.
3) Requirements closure- transitions the product/service/result to the recipient to measure, monitor, sustain, and realize benefits over time.

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Requirements Management Process

Question 21

Quality policies, methodologies, and standards are implemented on the project

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Quality Management Plan

Question 22

Determines the series of phases that a project passes through from its inception to the end of the project

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Project Life Cycle Description

Question 23

Defines whether waterfall, iterative, adaptive, agile, or hybrid approach will be used.

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Development Approach

Question 24

Component of the PM Plan that describes how a project and product required will be analyzed, documented, and managed. *How requirement activities will be planned, tracked, and reported.

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Requirements Management Plan (Business Analysis Plan)

Question 25

the process of determining, documenting, and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet objectives. * Provides basis for defining the product scope and project scope.

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Collect Requirements

Question 26

Contains info on how the project scope will be defined and developed.

Answer 26

Scope management plan

Question 27

info on how the project requirements will be collected, analyzed, and documented.

Answer 27

Requirements plan

Question 28

Used for understanding stakeholder communication requirements and level of stakeholder engagement and assess how to adapt level of stakeholder participation in required activities.

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Stakeholder engagement plan

Question 29

can describe required, desired, and optional criteria for meeting the business needs.

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Business case

Question 30

- organizational culture - infrastructure - personnel administration - Marketplace conditions

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Collection Requirement- Enterprise Environmental factors

Question 31

Policies, procedures, historical info and lessons learned repository.

Answer 31

Organizational Process Assets

Question 32

Data Gathering

Answer 32

``` Brainstorming interviews focus groups questionnaires and surveys benchmarking ```

Question 33

decision reached whereby the largest block decides, even if majority is not achieved. Used when more than two options.

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Plurality

Question 34

Sole Source decision

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Autocratic Decision making

Question 35

Decision making using decision matrix providing systematic analytical approach for establishing criteria

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multicriteria decision making

Question 36

Allow large numbers of ideas to be classified into groups

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Affinity diagram

Question 37

consolidates ideas created through individual brainstorming session

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Mind Mapping

Question 38

enhances brainstorming with the voting process used to rank the most useful ideas for further brainstorming and prioritization.

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Nominal Group Technique

Question 39

define cross functional requirements and reconcile stakeholder differences

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Workshops

Question 40

Facilitation Skill (JAD)

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Joint application design/development- business subject matter experts and dev team to gather requirements and improv software dev processes.

Question 41

Facilitation Skill (QFD)

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Helps Determine critical characteristics for new product development

Question 42

short/textual descriptions of required functionality often dev during required workshops. Describe stakeholder roles, who benefits from features (role), what stakeholders need to accomplish (Goal), and benefit to stakeholder (Motivation)

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User Stories

Question 43

Visually depicts the product scope by showing a business system (process, equipment, computer system, etc.) and how people and other systems (actors) interact with it.

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Context Diagram

Question 44

Two categories of Requirement Types

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business solutions | technical solutions

Question 45

describe features, functions, characteristics of the product/service/result that will meet the business and stakeholder requirements

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Solutions Requirements

Question 46

describes the behaviors of a product, actions, processes, data, and interactions that the product should execute.

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Functional Requirement

Question 47

supplement functional requirement and describe the environment conditions or qualities required for the product to be effective.

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nonfunctional Requirements

Question 48

describe temporary capabilities, such as data conversion and training requirements needed to transition from the current state as-is state to the desired future state.

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Transition and readiness requirements

Question 49

describes actions, processes, or other conditions the project needs to meet: milestone dates, contractual obligations, constraints, etc.

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Project requirements

Question 50

capture any condition or criteria needed to validate the successful completion of project deliverables or fulfill other project requirements: Tests, certifications, validations, etc.

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Quality Requirements

Question 51

Grid that links product requirements to their origin to the delivery that satisfy them.

Answer 51

Requirements Traceability Matrix

Question 52

Detailed Project Scope statement includes:

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- Product scope statement - acceptance criteria - deliverables - project exclusions

Question 53

WBS Structure Methods:

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- Top-down approach - Organization specific guidelines - WBS Template - Bottom-up approach- used to group subcomponents

Question 54

Represent verifiable products/services/results

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WBS Components

Question 55

WBS Structures

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- Outlined, organizational chart, or other methods identifying hierarchical breakdown.

Question 56

Project Management team agrees on deliverables and subcomponents before the details of the WBS can be delivered.

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Rolling Wave Planning

Question 57

WBS represents

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All product and project work including PM work

Question 58

Total of work at lowest level should roll up to the higher levels so that nothing is left out nd no extra work is performed.

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100 percent rule

Question 59

the approved version of a scope statement, WBS, and its associated WBS Dictionary, which can be changes only through formal change control procedures and used as a basis for comparison

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Scope Baseline

Question 60

A work break-down structure component below the control account and above the work package with known work content but without detailed scheduled activities.

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Planning Package

Question 61

a document that provides detailed deliverable, activity, and scheduling information about each component in the WBS

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WBS Dictionary

Question 62

the uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjust to time, cost, resources.

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Scope Creep

Question 63

Correlated and contextual information on how the project/product scope are performed compared to scope baseline. Include: - Categories of change received - Identified scope variances - impacts to schedule or cost - forecast of future scope performance.

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Work Performance Information