Q3 ITPM
Burndown Chart
"A _____ is an important Scrum Artifact used to graphically display progress on each Sprint during the monitoring and controlling process."
Agenda. All kick off meetings should include an agenda.
"All Kickoff meetings should include an _____"
Predictive Approach
"The ____ approach is best for Projects that have a fairly rigid completition date."
Predictive Approach
"The ____ approach is best for Projects that have clear-up-front requirements."
Agile Approach
"The ______ approach is best for Projects that have more flexible scheduling."
Agile Approach
"The ______ approach is best for Projects with experienced teams."
Predictive Approach
"The ______ approach is best for Projects with inexperienced and dispersed teams."
Deliverables
"______ are an output of the executing process of Project Integration Management."
FALSE. Definitely a Bullshit question that was no where to be found in chapter 3. But just know that NO a milestone list is definitely not an output associated with the Project Scope Question Management knowledge area
(T/F) "A milestone list is an output associated with the Project Scope Question Management knowledge area."
TRUE. Before you start developing the project it's a good idea to know who's gonna pay for it. That would be why Identifying the sponsor is recognized as a pre-initiation task."
(T/F) "Identifying the sponsor is a pre-initiation task."
TRUE. In the Scrum Method, the ScrumTeam is what is referred to as the Project Team. And they are coached up by the ScrumMaster who is the Project Manager.
(T/F) "In the Scrum method, team members work as a self-directed group coached by the ScrumMaster."
FALSE.
(T/F) "Initiating and closing task usually take the longest and require the most amount of resources and time."
TRUE. Yes during each phase of a project you will initiate something to continue to progress forward in the peojects development.
(T/F) "Initiating processes take place during each phase of a project."
TRUE. Yes the reason why Monitoring & Controlling processes overlap all of the other project management process groups, is because in every phase of a projects development their must be monitoring and control to ensure things are going correctly.
(T/F) "Monitoring & Controlling processes overlap all of the other project management process groups."
TRUE. Yes Project Management is an integrative endeavor, decisions and actions taken in one knowledge area at a certain time usually affect other knowledge areas..
(T/F) "Project Management is an integrative endeavor"
TRUE. The Executing Process Group should overlap the other process groups and generally requires the most resources.
(T/F) "The Executing Process Group should overlap the other process groups and generally requires the most resources."
FALSE. The Project Management Process Groups ARE NOT mutually exclusive
(T/F) "The Project Management Process Groups are mutually exclusive"
TRUE. A W.B.S or Work Breakdown Structure is responsible assigning the work to be done in a project hence the project schedule, while also performing earned value management for measuring and forecasting project performance.
(T/F) "The W.B.S provides a basis for creating the project schedule and performing earned value management for measuring and forecasting project performance."
TRUE. Every project is unique. With that being so the level of activity and length of each process group will vary with every project because once again every project is unique.
(T/F) "The level of activity and length of each process group varies of every project."
FALSE. What is it tho?
(T/F) "The output of the stakeholder management strategy result is a Project Charter."
TRUE. Yes, the two main items for monitoring and controlling in the Scrum framework are the daily Scrum and the Sprint review.
(T/F) "The two main items for monitoring and controlling in the Scrum framework are the daily Scrum and the Sprint review."
TRUE. Yes, you can apply the process groups for each major phase or iteration of a project, or you can apply the process groups to an entire project...
(T/F) "You can apply the process groups for each major phase or iteration of a project, or you can apply the process groups to an entire project."
Again, the Project Management Process Groups ARE NOT mutually exclusive. Project Managers must perform monitoring and controlling processes throughout the projects life span.
Give an example of how the Project Groups ARE NOT mutually exclusive:
No, you cannot equate process phases with project phases. A project can have different project phases, but all projects will include five process groups.
In Project Management can you equate process phases with project phases?
In Scrum an Artifact is the equivalency of a Deliverable.
In Scrum what is an Artifact?
A Sprint is a period of time, usually lasting 2 to 4 weeks, in which specific work must be completed and ready for review
In the Scrum Method what is a Sprint?
Daily Scrum is a short meeting for the development team to share progress and challenges and plan work for the day. The meeting typically last no longer than 15 minutes.
In the Scrum Method what is the purpose of the daily Scrum Meeting?
What was learned, and how the product and process can be improved...The Sprint Reflection Meeting is a Close-Out meeting for the Scrum Method.
In the Scrum Method, what would be discussed at Sprint Reflection Meeting?
Scope, Time, and Cost
Managing the interactions of a Project often involve making trade off among the Projects _____, _____, and _____"
Product backlog, Sprint backlog, and a Burndown chart, are 3 Artifacts created by Scrum.
Name 3 Artifacts created by SCRUM:
Most, Least
Normally executing task requires the ______ resources and time, followed by Planning task. Initiating and closing task are usually the shortest and require the ______ resources and time.
The Executing Process Group takes the actions necessary to complete the work described in the planning activities.
What actions do the Executing Process Group take?
Metrics are used to measure performance on a project.
What are Metrics used for in Project Management?
Outputs of the Planning Process Group include completing the project scope statement, the work breakdown structure, the project schedule, and many other items.
What are Outputs of the Planning Process Group?
Sprint Retrospectives are meetings in which the team looks for ways to improve the product and the process based on a review if the actual performance of the development team.
What are Sprint Retrospectives?
The five Project Management Process groups are: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring & controlling, and closing.
What are the five Project Management Process groups?
The main outputs from the Initiating Process are a Project Charter, and a Stakeholder Register.
What are the main outputs of the Initiating processes?
Administrative activities, such as archiving files, closing out contracts, documenting lessons learned, and receiving formal acceptance of delivered work.
What do Closing Processes include?
Acquiring and developing the project team, performing quality assurance, distributing information, managing stockholder expectations, and conducting procurements.
What do Executing Processes include?
Initiating Processes include defining and authorizing a project or project phase.
What do Initiating Processes include?
Reporting performance, where project stakeholders can identify any necessary changes that may be required to keep the project on track.
What do Monitoring & Controlling Processes include?
Pre-Initiation task work to lay the groundwork for a Project before it officially starts. These task are a vital part of proper planning
What do Pre-Initiation task work to do?
Closing Processes include formalizing acceptance of the project or project phase and ending it efficiently.
What do the Closing Processes include?
Monitoring & Controlling Processes include regularly measuring and monitoring progress to ensure that the project team meets the project objectives
What do the Monitoring & Controlling Processes include?
The "Project Management Plan" coordinates and encompasses information from all other plans.
What does the Project Management plan do?
A Methodology describes how things should be done. It's a plan.
What is a Methodology?
A Product Backlog is a list of features prioritized by business value...
What is a Product Backlog?
The Product Owner in SCRUM, is the person responsible for the business value of the project and for deciding what work to do and in what order.
What is a Product Owner in SCRUM?
A Sprint Backlog is the highest priority items from the product backlog to be completed within a Sprint.
What is a Sprint Backlog?
An Agenda list in order the topics to be discussed.
What is an Agenda?
The PMBOK Guide is a basis for Project Management Methodology.
What is the PMBOK Guide?
The main outcome of the Executing Process is delivering the actual work of the project
What is the main output of the Executing Process group?
Planning Processes include devising and maintaining a workable scheme to ensure that the project addresses the organizations needs.
What is the purpose of Project Management processes and what do they do?
A Kick-Off meeting is 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. Project Kick-Off meetings work to get everyone introduced to each other and on the same page.
What is the purpose of the Kick-Off Meeting in the Scrum Method?
In Scrum, sprint review meetings are held to discuss what progress was generated in a Sprint session.
What is the purpose of the Sprint Review Meeting?
The Agile Method uses several iterations or deliverables of software instead of waiting until the end of the product to provide a product.
What method uses several iterations or deliverables of software instead of waiting until the end of the product to provide a product.
An Organizations Strategic Plan should express the vision, mission, goals, objectives and strategies of the organization...Metrics are used to measure performance on a project.
What should an Organizations strategic plain include?
