• OPAs
• EEFs
• Assumption Log
• Work Performance Data
• Work Performance Info
• Work Performance Reports
• Expert Judgement
• Data Gathering
• Data Analysis
• Data Representation
• PMIS
• Estimating
• Decision Making
• Interpersonal & Team Skills

EEFs - are the factors that affect the management of the project and which the project team does not have any control over. They may be internal or external.

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LOG FIELDS: date, process, assumption/ constraint, responsible party, action, status

• May contain Risks
• Requires watching and managing

• Boundary Of The Project

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• Consult experts outside
• Consult experts inside the Organization

Brainstorming - every idea, criticism, discussion & analysis are accepted & people who attend this meeting try to generate create ideas & solutions

Benchmarking - comparing a project with benchmarked project

Checklists - checking the acceptability of repetitive tasks

Interviews - is a face to face meeting conducted between two or more people, usually interviewees aren't interacting

Questionnaire - set of printed questions with pre-determined several answers given

Survey - like Questionnaire except without pre-determined answers

Focus Groups - selected stakeholders have discussion a topic during planned meeting

Check Sheets - doc that counts & documents number of defects on a product

Statistical Sampling - choose a sample instead of surveying the whole population, you control and check only that sample

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One-point Estimating - estimator delivers only one value for each activity

Analogous - historic information used to estimate the project cost & duration (top down estimating)

Parametric - historic information used to estimate project cost & duration; we make calculations

Three-point estimating - use best, worst, & most likely scenarios to weigh probable value

Bottom-Up:

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