Project Management Chapter3 Key Terms

Scrum team or development team

A cross-functional team of five to nine people who organize themselves and the work to produce the desired results for each sprint

Methodology

A description of how things should be done

Stakeholder register

A document that includes details related to the identified project stakeholders

Kick-off meeting

A meeting held at the beginning of a project so that stakeholders can meet each other, review the goals of the project, and discuss future plans

ScrumMaster

A person who ensures that the team is productive, facilitates the daily Scrum, enables close cooperation across all roles and functions, and removes barriers that prevent the team from being effective

Projects in controller environments (PRINCE2)

A project management methodology developed in the United Kingdom that defines 45 separate subprocesses and organizes these into eight process groups

Process

A series of actions directed toward a particular result

Sprint

A set period of time, normally two to four weeks, during which specific work must be completed and made ready for review when using Scrum methods

Daily scrum

A short meeting in which the team shares progress and challenges

Product backlog

A single list of features prioritized by business value

Artifact

A useful object created by people

Agile Methods

An approach to managing projects that includes an iterative workflow and incremental delivery of software in short iterations

Rational Unified Process (RUP) Framework

An iterative software development process that focuses on team productivity and delivers software best practices to all team members

Standard

Best practices for what should be done

Administrative activities, such as archiving project files, closing out contracts, documenting lessons learned, and receiving formal acceptance of the delivered work as part of the phase or project, are often involved in _____ processes.

Closing Closing processes include formalizing acceptance of the project or project phase and ending it efficiently. Administrative activities are often involved in this process group, such as archiving project files, closing out contracts, documenting lessons learned, and receiving formal acceptance of the delivered work as part of the phase or project.

Executing processes

Coordinating people and other resources to carry out the project plans and create the products, services, or results of the project or project phase

_____ is a planning process that is within the Project Scope Management knowledge area.

Creation of a WBS Creation of a WBS is a planning process falling under the Project Scope Management knowledge area.

Six Sigma methodologies

DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) is used to improve an existing business process, and DMADV (Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, and Verify) is used to create new product or process designs

Initiating processes

Defining and authorizing a project or project phase

Planning processes

Devising and maintaining a workable scheme to ensure that the project addresses the organization's needs

Burdown chart

A chart that shows the cumulative work remaining in a sprint on a day-by-day basis

User stories

Short descriptions written by customers of what they need a system to do for them

Key outcomes of the executing process group are formal acceptance of the work and creation of closing documents.

False Key outcomes of the closing process group are formal acceptance of the work and creation of closing documents, such as a final project report and lessons-learned report.

Closing processes

Formalizing acceptance of the project or project phase and ending it efficiently

The project management plan is the output of the planning process of project _____.

Integration management The project management plan ,which is part of the planning process, is the output of project integration management.

Enterprise environmental factors are an output of the executing process of _____.

Project human resource management Enterprise environmental factors are an output of the executing process of project human resource management.

Organizational process assets update is the output of the closing process of _____.

Project integration management The closing process involves gaining stakeholder and customer acceptance of the final products and services and then bringing the project or project phase to an orderly end. It includes verifying that all of the deliverables are complete, and it often includes a final project report and presentation.

Monitoring and controlling processes

Regularly measuring and monitoring progress to ensure that the project team meets the project objectives

Sprint backlog

The highest-priority items from the product backlog to be completed in a sprint

Product owner

The person responsible for the business value of the project and for deciding what work to do and in what order when using a Scrum method

Project management process groups

The progression of project activities from initiation to planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing

Monitoring and controlling processes overlap all of the other project management process groups. Correct!

True Monitoring and controlling processes overlap all of the other project management process groups because changes can occur at any time.

The two main items for monitoring and controlling in the Scrum framework are the dailyScrum and the sprint Review. Correct!

True The two main items for monitoring and controlling in the Scrum framework are the dailyScrum and the sprint review.