Project Management Processes

Question 1

Initiating

Answer 1

(Predictive #1)
Determine if Business Case + Business Management Plan (“business documents”) are achievable
Determine viability based on given constraints
Authorize via signed project Charter

Question 2

Business case

Answer 2

Captures business need
How project selected?
How fits into org’s strategic goals?
How add value?

Question 3

Business management plan

Answer 3

or benefits realization plan
Captures desired benefits
How benefits maximized/sustained
Defines metrics/processes to measure benefits

Question 4

Constraints

Answer 4

E.g. Schedule, cost, risk, scope, quality, resources, customer satisfaction, etc.

Question 5

Project charter

Answer 5

High-level planning document
Signed by sponsor, gives authority to project manager

Question 6

Planning

Answer 6

(Predictive #2)
Detailed planning, including project management plan

Question 7

Development approach

Answer 7

Plan-driven (predictive)
Agile (adaptive)
Hybrid

Question 8

Project management plan

Answer 8

Defines project life cycle and development approach
How to plan, execute, monitor & control, and close project

Question 9

Executing

Answer 9

(Predictive #3)
Completing the work to produce the deliverables

Question 10

Project documents

Answer 10

Anything outside of the project management plan
e.g. assumption/issue/risk logs, lessons learned, schedule, etc.

Question 11

Monitoring and Controlling

Answer 11

(Predictive #4)
Monitor current status vs. baselines
Control project plan changes via change requests

Question 12

Baselines

Answer 12

Scope, schedule, cost

Question 13

Integrated change control

Answer 13

Review change requests
Approve/deny/defer
Update project plan as needed

Question 14

Closing

Answer 14

(Predictive #5 & Adaptive #5)
Finalize paperwork
Confirm acceptability
Basically same for predictive and adaptive

Question 15

Rolling wave planning

Answer 15

Upcoming phases planned in detail
Subsequent phases planned at high level, then detail added when closer to that phase
Type of progressive elaboration

Question 16

Progressive elaboration

Answer 16

Continually refining estimates and scope

Question 17

Feasibility

Answer 17

(Adaptive #1)
Determine business case and benefit/value of project
Difference: less formal documentation than Predictive, may include info on realizing early benefits

Question 18

Initiation

Answer 18

(Adaptive #2)
Charter developed
Personas and backlog created
Product roadmap

Question 19

Personas

Answer 19

(Adaptive)
Brief descriptions of key stakeholders and their interests

Question 20

Release Planning

Answer 20

(Adaptive #3)
Selection of user stories from prioritized backlog, slicing larger ones into work packages
Setting initial velocity

Question 21

User story

Answer 21

(Adaptive)
Work packages, ~1-3 days of work

Question 22

Velocity

Answer 22

(Adaptive)
Rate of work completed in an iteration
Can be based on story points, which are multivariate ratings of amount of work for a given user story

Question 23

Iteration

Answer 23

(Adaptive #4)
Equivalent to Executing and Controlling and Monitoring phases in predictive
a.k.a. “sprint”
Daily stand-up meeting
Iteration review (customer demo)
Retrospective (what what well? needs improvement? do differently?)

Question 24

Project life cycle

Answer 24

Phases of work needed to produce deliverables