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bottom-up

Project managers often use the ____ approach for projects that represent entirely new systems or approaches to doing a job, or to help create buy-in and synergy with a project team.

scope statement

The ____ should list and describe all of the deliverables required for the project

Scope verification

____ involves formal acceptance of the completed project scope by the stakeholders

mind mapping

After discovering WBS items and structure using the ____ technique, you could then translate the information into chart or tabular form

project scope statement

An up-to-date ____ is an important document for developing and confirming a common understanding of the project scope

work breakdown structure

A(n) ____ is a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project

scope definition

Good ____ is very important to project success because it helps improve the accuracy of time, cost, and resource estimates, it defines a baseline for performance measurement and project control, and it aids in communicating clear work responsibilities

2

In the WBS, the main groupings for the work are listed in Level ____.

1

In the WBS, the name of the entire project is the top box, called Level ____.

analogy approach

In the ____, you use a similar project's WBS as a starting point

specifications

Many people confuse tasks on a WBS with ____.

scope

Of the following constraints, it is most difficult to describe, agree upon, and meet the ____ goal of many projects

top-down

The ____ approach involves refining the work into greater and greater levels of detail

top-down

The ____ approach is best suited to project managers who have vast technical insight and a big-picture perspective

executing

The ____ tasks vary the most from project to project

scope control

The goal of ____ is to influence the factors that cause scope changes, assure changes are processed according to procedures developed as part of integrated change control, and manage changes when they occur.

verifying scope

The main outputs of ____ are accepted deliverables and change requests

deliverable

The term ____ describes a product produced as part of a project

five

There are ____ main processes involved in project scope management.

Controlling scope

____ involves controlling changes to project scope throughout the life of the project, which is a challenge on many information technology projects

Collecting requirements

____ involves defining and documenting the features and functions of the products produced during the project as well as the processes used for creating them

Verifying scope

____ involves formalizing acceptance of the project deliverables and during this phase the key project stakeholders, such as the customer and sponsor for the project, inspect and then formally accept the deliverables during this process

Defining scope

____ involves reviewing the project charter, requirements documents, and organizational process assets to create a scope statement, adding more information as requirements are developed and change requests are approved.

Use case modeling

____ is a process for identifying and modeling business events, who initiated them, and how the system should respond to them

JAD

____ uses highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholders—the sponsor, users, business analysts, programmers, and so on—to jointly define and design information systems.