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| creating a WBS by using a similar project's WBS as a starting point |
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| creating a WBS by having team members identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible and then grouping them into higher level categories |
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| subdividing project deliverables into smaller pieces |
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| a product, such as a report or segment of software code, produced as part of a project |
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| Join application Design (JAD) |
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| using 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 |
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| the processes involved in defining and controlling what work is not included in a project |
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| a document that includes, at a minimum, a description of the project, overall objectives and jsutification, detailed desciptions of all project deliverables, and the characteristics and requirements of products and services produces as part of the project |
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| developing a working replica of the system or some aspect of the system to help define user requirements |
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| a condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system, product, service, result, or component to satisfy a contract, standard, specification, or other formal document |
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| requirements management plan |
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| a plan that describes how project requirements will be analyzed, documented, and managed |
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| requirements traceability matrix |
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| a table that lists requirements, various attributes of each requirement and the status of the requirements to ensure that all requirements to ensure that all requirements are addressed |
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| all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the processes used to create them |
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| the approved project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary |
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| the tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger |
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| creating a WBS by starting with the largest items of the project and breaking them into their subordinate items |
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| a process for identifying and modeling business events who initiated them and how the system should respond to them |
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| the difference between planned and actual performance |
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| a document that describes detailed information about each WBS item |
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| Work Breakdown structure (WBS) |
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| a deliverable oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project |
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| a task at the lowest level of the WBS |
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