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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 man specific tasks related to the project as possible and then grouping them together into higher level categories. |
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| subdividing project deliverables into smaller pieces |
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| a propduct, such as a report or segment of software code, produced as part of a project. |
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| joint application design (JAD) |
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| using highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholders to jointly define and design information systems. |
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| the processes involved in defining and controlling what work is or is not included in a project |
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| a document that includes, at minimum, a descrioption of the project, including its overall objectives and justification, detailed descriptions of all project deliverables, and the characteristics and requirements of products and services produced 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 (RTM) |
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| a table that lists requirements, various attributes of each requirements, and the status of the requirement to ensure that all requirements are addresses |
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| all the work involved in creating products ofthe 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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| One of the most difficult aspects of project management |
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| 5 main processes invovled in project scope management |
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| collecting requirements, defining scope, creating the WBS, verifying scope, controlling scope |
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| a network diagraming technique in which activities are represented by arrows and connected at points called nodes to illustrate the sequence of activities |
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| a project netowkr diagrming technique that determines the late start and late finish dates of each activity in similar fashion |
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| a technique for making cost and schedule trade-offs to obtain the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least incremental cost. |
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| critical chain scheduling |
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| a method of scheduling that takes limited resources into account when creating a project schedule and includes buffers to protect the project completion date |
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| if something will go wring, it will |
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| principle that work expands to fill the time allowed |
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| Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM) |
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| a network diagramming technique in which boxes represent activities |
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| program evaluation and review technique (PERT) |
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| project network analysis technique used to estimate project duration when there is a high degree of uncertainty with the individual activity duration estimates |
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| guidelines to define milestones; specific, measurable, assignable, realistic |
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| theory of constraints (TOC) |
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| a management philosophy that states that an complex system at any point in time often has only one aspect or constraint that is limiting its ability to achieve more of its goal. |
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| cost performance index (CPI) |
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| the ratio of earned value to actual cost; can be used to estimate the projected cost to complete the project |
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| the earned value minus the actual cost |
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| an estimate of the value of the physical work actually completed |
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| estimate at completion (EAC) |
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| an estimate of what it will cost to complete the project based on performance to date |
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| a cost-estimating technique that uses project characteristics (parameters) in a mathematical model estimate project costs |
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| the portion of approved total cost estimate planned to be spent on an activity during a given period |
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| the ratio of actual work completed to the percentage of work planned to have been completed at any given time during the life of the project or activity |
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| rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimate |
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| a cost estimate prepared very early in the life of a project to provide a rough idea of what a project will cost |
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| schedule performance index (SPI) |
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| the ratio of earned value to planned value; can be used to estimate the projected time to complete a project. |
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| capability maturity model integration (CMMI) |
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| a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes |
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| define, measure, analyze, improve, control; a systematic, closed-loop process for continued improvement that is scientific and fact based. |
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| diagram that traces com[plaints about quality problems back to the responsible production operations to help find the root cause |
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| malcolm baldrige national quality award |
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| an award started in 1987 to recognize companies that have achieved a level of world-class competition through quality management |
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| identifying the vital few contributors that account for most quality problems in a system |
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| methods that focus on eliminating defects by substituting scientific inquiry for trial-and-error methods |
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| if seven data points in a row on a quality control chart are all belowthe mean, above the mean, or are all increasing or decreasing, then the process needs to be examined for nonrandom problems. |
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