MGS425 Chapter 5

Which approach for constructing a WBS uses a similar project's WBS as a starting point?

Analogy

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 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 Reqiurements

Of the six main processes involved with planning scope management, which one listed below is related to project change management?

Controlling scope.

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

Deliverables are only product-related, such as a piece of hardware or software. (T/F)

False

Project scope statements must include the project boundaries, constraints, and assumptions. (T/F)

False

The project's size, complexity, importance, and other factors do not affect how much effort is spent on collecting requirements for scope planning. (T/F)

False

The scope baseline in a WBS consists of the requirements documentation and enterprise environmental factors. (T/F)

False

The scope of a project is clear and specific from the start. (T/F)

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

The main purpose of the WBS is to define all of the work required to complete a project. (T/F)

True

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 task is at the lowest level of the WBS?

Work Package

What is scope creep?

the tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger and bigger

Which statement best describes scope?

work involved in creating the products and the processes used to create them