Definitions

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Project

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A temporary endeavour undertaken to create a unique product, service or result.

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Predictive/traditional project

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PLAN the project.
DO the project.

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Increment

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Delivery of working product in pieces

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Iterative

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Repeated cycles

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Requirements

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What stakeholders want and need

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Temporary

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Start date and end date

OPP: Ongoing, continuing, repetitve, open-ended

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Endeavours

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As much as necassary. Tailoring to the uniqueness of the project.

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Product

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An item for sale to customers

Physical or virtual

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Operations

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Activities that occur repetitively and produce deliverables that are similar.

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Project-based operations

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Enhancing operations by treating each deliverable as a project.

EX: Customising each car for a specific customer

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Functional Manager

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A functional manager is a manager who is responsible for one specific department (function) in an organization.

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Operations manager

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Resposnible for ensuring that business operations are efficient.

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Project benefits

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The value created for the stakeholders as the result of a successful completion of a project.

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Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEFs)

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These are the conditions that are not under the immediate control of the project team, but they influence, constrain, or direct the project, program or portfolio.

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Organisational Process Assets (OPAs)

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An asset is a useful or valuable entity or property owned by a person or company

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Project management

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The application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.

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Artifacts

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Deliverables or outputs produced during a project

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Project manager

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The person assigned by the performing organisation to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.

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Talent traingle

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The ideal skill set for project managers that combines ways of working, business acumen and power skills.

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Business Acumen

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The ability to understand the high-level overview of the organisation and effectively negotiate and implement decisions and actions that support strategic alignment and innovation.

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Power skills

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Interpersonal skills provide successful leadership of the project as well as making sure the team is getting things done as needed.

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Authority

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A position of control given to individuals within an organisation to foster overall effective and efficient function

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Emotional Intelligence (EI)

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EI is the capability to uderstand and manage, not only your own emotions, but also the emotions of others.

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Emotional Quotient (EQ)

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The actual, practical application of these skills (EI)

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Program

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Related projects, subsidiary programs, and program activities that are managed in a coordinated manner to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually.

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Program management

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The application of knowledge, skills and principals to a program to achieve the program objectives and obtain benefits and control not available by managing program components individually.

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Portfolio

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A collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management to meet strategic business objectives.

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Project Management Office (PMO)

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A management structure that standardises the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools and techniques.

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Project Performance Domains

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An integrated system to enable successful delivery of the project and intended outcomes.

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Project life cycle

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The series of phases that a project passes through from start to completion ## Footnote Project life cycle consistes of phases

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Project phase

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A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables ## Footnote Phases consist of activities, deliverables and milestones

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Deliverable

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Any unique and verifiable product, result ot capability to perform a sevice that is required to be produced to complete a process, phase or project | Define the project

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Development approach

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A method used to create and evolve the product, service or result during the project life cycle (predictive, iterative, incremental, adaptive, hybrid).

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Deliverable cadence

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A rhythm of activities conducted throughout the project

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Development approach and life cycle

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The Development Approach and Life Cycle Domain addresses activities and functions associated with the development approach, cadence and life cycle phases of the project

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Planning Performance Domain

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The Planning Performance Domain addresses activities and functions associated with the initial, ongoing and evolving organisation and coordination necessary for delivering project deliverables and outcomes.

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Stakeholder

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An individual, group or organisation that may affect, be affected by, or percieve itself to be affected by a decision, activity or outcome of a project, program or portfolio.

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Stakeholder engagement

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It is the process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and expectations, address issues and foster appropriate stakeholder involvement.

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Stakeholder communications

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Stakeholder communications refers to the patterns of exchanging information and knowledge between team members.

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Communication model

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Systematic procedure, technique, or process used to transfer information among project stakeholders.

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Stakeholder register

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A stakeholder register is a document that includes the identification, assessment and classification of project stakeholders.

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Stakeholder analysis

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A method of systematically gathering and analysing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interests should be taken into account throughout the project.

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Team performance domain

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Addresses activities and functions associated with the people responsible for producing deliverables that realise business outcomes

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Project Management team

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The members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities

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Project Team

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A set of individuals performing the work of the project to achieve its objectives

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Sponsor

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A person or group who provides resources and support for the project, program, or portfolio and is accountable for enabling success

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Scope/scope document

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The complete description of all the products and services in the project

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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

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A hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables.

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WBS Dictionary

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The document that provides detailed deliverable, activity and scheduling information about each component in the WBS

Question 50

Estimation

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The process of forecasting the duration and cost of completing all project deliverables.