Chapter 5 - Project Scope Management
Which document contains a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project?
work breakdown structure
The project management plan, project documents, enterprise environmental factors, and organizational process assets are the primary inputs for creating a WBS.
True
The project scope statement should reference supporting documents, such as product specifications that will affect what products are produced or purchased, or corporate policies, which might affect how products or services are produced.
True
The scope management plan can be informal and broad or formal and detailed, based on the needs of the project.
True
Which process involves generating ideas by comparing specific project practices or product characteristics to those of other projects or products inside or outside the performing organization?
benchmarking
Which document should list and describe all of the deliverables required for the project?
scope statement
Which approach for constructing a WBS involves refining the work into greater and greater levels of detail?
top-down
Which approach for constructing a WBS starts with the largest items of the project and breaks them into subordinate items?
top-down
Mind mapping can be used for developing WBSs using which approach?
top-down or bottom-up approach
Which statement best describes scope?
work involved in creating the products and the processes used to create them
Which task is at the lowest level of the WBS?
work package
Which is recommended for the creation of a good WBS?
A unit of work should appear at only one place in the WBS.
Which action involves defining and documenting the features and functions of the products produced during the project as well as the processes used for creating them?
Collecting requirements
Which action 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?
Defining scope
A work package must always represent less than 80 hours of work.
False
A work package represents one component of the product that the project aims to deliver.
False
Deliverables are only product-related, such as a piece of hardware or software.
False
Given the project management software that is available, it is relatively easy to create a good WBS.
False
Project scope statements must include the project boundaries, constraints, and assumptions.
False
The format of the WBS dictionary is essentially the same for all projects.
False
The project's size, complexity, importance, and other factors do not affect how much effort is spent on collecting requirements for scope planning.
False
The scope baseline in a WBS consists of the requirements documentation and enterprise environmental factors.
False
What process involves formal acceptance of the completed project scope by the stakeholders?
Scope validation
Which process 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?
JAD
Which process involves developing a working replica of the system or some aspect of the system?
Prototyping
A unit of work should appear at only one place in the WBS.
True
Information from the project charter provides a basis for further defining the project scope.
True
Many information technology projects also require detailed functional and design specifications for developing software, which also should be referenced in the detailed scope statement.
True
Many organizations provide different guidelines and templates for developing WBSs.
True
Project scope management includes the processes involved in defining and controlling what is or is not included in a project.
True
Scope creep if not managed well can lead to the failure of information technology projects.
True
Scope refers to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the processes used to create them.
True
The main purpose of the WBS is to define all of the work required to complete a project.
True
Which process involves identifying and modeling business events, who initiated them, and how the system should respond to them?
Use case modeling
Which action involves normalizing 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?
Validating scope
Which term refers to the difference between planned and actual performance?
Variance
Which approach for constructing a WBS uses a similar project's WBS as a starting point?
analogy
During which approach do team members first identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible and then aggregate the specific tasks and organize them into summary activities, or higher levels in the WBS?
bottom-up
What is scope creep?
the tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger and bigger
What is the main technique used in creating a WBS, which involves subdividing project deliverables into smaller pieces?
decomposition
Which term describes a product produced as part of a project?
deliverable
Which technique is used for creating a WBS uses branches radiating from a core idea to structure thoughts and ideas instead of writing down tasks in a list or immediately trying to create a structure for tasks?
mind mapping
Creating the WBS is a subprocess associated with which process in project scope management?
planning
The scope of a project is clear and specific from the start.
False
The tasks in a WBS must be developed as a sequential list of steps.
False
Which output documents how project needs will be analyzed, documented, and managed?
requirements management plan
What is a table that lists requirements, their various attributes, and the status of the requirements to ensure that all are addressed referred to as?
requirements traceability matrix