Definitions 151-180

Question 1

What is IDIQ? (Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity)

Answer 1

A contract that provides for an indefinite quantity of goods or services, with a stated lower and upper limit, within a fixed time period.

Question 2

What is an Influence Diagram?

Answer 2

A graphical representation of situations showing causal influences, time ordering of events, and other relationships among variable and outcomes.

Question 3

What is an Information Radiator?

Answer 3

A visible, physical display that provides information to the rest of the organization, enabling timely knowledge sharing.

Question 4

What is an Initiating Process Group?

Answer 4

Those processes performed to define a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase.

Question 5

What is Internal Dependency?

Answer 5

A relationship between two or more project activities.

Question 6

What are Interpersonal Skills?

Answer 6

Skills used to establish and maintain relationships with other people.

Question 7

Define Issue.

Answer 7

A current condition or situation that may have an impact on the project objectives.

Question 8

What is an Issue Log?

Answer 8

A project document where information about issues is recorded and monitored.

Question 9

Define Iteration.

Answer 9

A timeboxed cycle of development on a product or deliverable in which all of the work that is needed to deliver value is performed.

Question 10

What is an Iteration Plan?

Answer 10

A detailed plan for the current iteration.

Question 11

What is an Iteration Planning?

Answer 11

A meeting to clarify the details of the backlog items, acceptance criteria, and work effort required to meet an upcoming iteration commitment.

Question 12

What is an Iteration Review?

Answer 12

A meeting held at the end of an iteration to demonstrate the work that was accomplished during the iteration.

Question 13

What is a Kanban Board?

Answer 13

A visualization tool that shows work in progress to help identify bottlenecks and overcommitments, thereby allowing the team to optimize the workflow.

Question 14

What is a Kickoff Meeting?

Answer 14

A gathering of team members and other key stakeholders at the outset of a project to formally set expectations, gain a common understanding, and commence work.

Question 15

Define Knowledge.

Answer 15

A mixture of experience, values, and beliefs, contextual information, intuition, and insight that people use to make sense of new experiences and information.

Question 16

Define Lag.

Answer 16

The amount of time whereby a successor activity will be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity. - Different than Lead.

Question 17

What is the Last Responsible Moment?

Answer 17

The concept of deferring a decision to allow the team to consider multiple options until the cost of further delay would exceed the benefit.

Question 18

Define Lead.

Answer 18

The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity. - Different than Lag.

Question 19

What is Lead Time?

Answer 19

The time between a customer request and the actual delivery.

Question 20

What is a Lead Time Chart?

Answer 20

A diagram showing the trend over time of the average lead time of the items completed in work.

Question 21

What is a Lean Startup Canvas?

Answer 21

A one-page template designed to communicate a business plan with key stakeholders in an efficient and effective manner.

Question 22

What are Lessons Learned?

Answer 22

The knowledge gained during a project, which shows how project events were addresses or should be addresses in the future, for the purpose of improving future performance.

Question 23

What is a Lessons Learned Register?

Answer 23

A project document used to record knowledge gained during a project, phase, or iteration so that it can be used to improve future performance for the team and the organization.

Question 24

What is a Life Cycle?

Answer 24

The series of phases that a project passed through from its start to it completion. - Same as Project Life Cycle.

Question 25

What is LCA? (Life Cycle Assessment)

Answer 25

A tool used to evaluate the total environment impact of a product, process, or system.

Question 26

Define Log.

Answer 26

A document used to record and describe or denote selected items

Question 27

What is a Make-or-Buy Analysis?

Answer 27

The process of gathering and organizing data about product requirements and analyzing them against available alternatives including the purchase or internal manufacture of the product.

Question 28

What is a Management Reserve?

Answer 28

An amount of the project budget or project schedule held outside of the performance measurement baseline for management control purposes that is reserved for unforeseen work that is within the project scope.

Question 29

What is a Mandatory Dependency?

Answer 29

A relationship that is contractually required or inherent in the nature of the work.

Question 30

What is an Iteration Review?

Answer 30

A development approach that focuses on an initial, simplified implementation then progressively elaborates adding to the feature set until he final deliverable is complete.