Processes and Domains Flashcards
(20 cards)
What is the project life cycle?
How the project manager organizes doing the work of the project
What is the development lifecycle?
A progression of phases through a series of developmental stages
Serves as the methodology for managing a project and is the logical breakdown of what needs to be done to produce the project deliverables
What is the difference between a plan driven project and change driven project
Plan driven projects have predictive development life cycles (also called waterfall or traditional lifecycles) That require a scope, schedule, and cost to be determined in detail early in the project.
Change driven projects are iterative, incremental, or adaptive (agile) development lifecycles, and have varying levels of early planning for scope, schedule and cost
What is the project management process?
What do you need to do to manage the work
What are the five process groups?
Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, closing
What occurs during the initiating process group?
Stakeholders are identified and analyzed; the project division is created; a project or phase is formally authorized; project manager is provided with authority and information necessary to begin the project
What occurs during the planning process group?
A determination is made about whether the objectives in the project charter and expected business benefits can be achieved.
A decision is made about how the project objectives will be accomplished
What occurs during the executing process group?
Work defined in the project management plan is completed to meet project objective and achieve expected business value
What occurs during the monitoring and controlling process group?
In monitoring: attention is focused on how the project is progressing; an assessment made about how stakeholders are participating, communicating and feeling about the project, work and the identified project uncertainties.
And controlling: hard data on how the project is conforming to the plan is evaluated; action is taken to address variance outside of acceptable limits- by recommending changes to the way the work is being done (including corrective and preventive actions and defect repair) or adjusting baselines to reflect more achievable outcomes
What occurs during the closing process group?
Acceptance of the final product of the project is obtained and documented; the completed project is transferred to those who will use it; customer feedback about the product and project is solicited; Lessons learned or completed; files are indexed and archived
What is the execution approach in an agile project?
Additional efforts may be made to replan some or all of a project due to the complex nature of some projects that may require a lot of change
Occurs through multiple iterations; each iteration is a short and focused time period to undertake work followed by an interation review (including a product demo with the customer) and a team retrospective
What is the agile approach for monitoring a project?
More demos and feedback; demos and business discussions are more subjective, but eventual success is often a subjective measure
What is a key part of the process for change driven projects?
Experimentation and learning
How does planning work in an agile environment and who is responsible for planning?
Planning in an agile environment is deliberately more incremental and a process that iterates to discover and refine scope.
The team does release and iteration planning and backlog prioritization.
When are lessons learned collected on an agile project?
After every iteration
What is progressive elaboration?
The process of continually refining estimates and scope definition
What are the three domains?
People; Process; Business Environment
What does the people domain relate to?
Several tools and techniques along with a unique set of skills that may include leadership, team building, motivation, and conflict management.
This domain also relates to the ability to interact with and support the needs of project stakeholders
What are the responsibilities for the project manager in the process domain?
Keeping the project’s many aspects integrated, as in managing the project planning and artifacts
Managing the project governance structure, changes, and issues, and the transfer of lessons learned and other knowledge, as well as the product turnover
What are some key tasks in the business environment domains?
Evaluate and deliver project benefits and value; Knowledge and understanding of project and organizational lessons learned and the importance of how they are used between projects; Understanding organizational and project governance; Monitoring environmental changes for impact on the project
