CAPM Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) Question and Answers

Product release plan

Project release plan

Project management plan

Product management plan

Escalate to upper management to build awareness of the opportunity.

Exploit the opportunity immediately, since the cost saving makes it worthwhile.

Transfer the opportunity to a partner and start a partner contract.

Create a trail of the opportunity before full adoption, because of the risk associated.

10

12

14

17

Set up a meeting with the sponsor.

Set up a go/no-go meeting.

Wait for the next sprint.

Deliver the product.

all stakeholders have access to the same information.

the project team is able to understand the project status.

project stakeholders have a clear picture of the project.

new knowledge is added to organizational process assets.

Operations Management

Project Management

Program Management

Portfolio Management

Risk registerB Stakeholder engagement

Continuous improvement

Standards and regulatory compliance

$800

$1000

$1250

$1800

Processes, polices, and procedures

Legal restrictions

Infrastructure, resource availability. and employee capability

Financial considerations

Portfolio

Process

Project

Program

structure.

process asset.

matrix.

breakdown structure.

Metrics

Sprint

Charter

Backlog i

Iteration planning

Retrospective

Backlog refinement review

Daily standup

Estimate at completion

Cost performance

Schedule performance

To-complete performance

Performance reports

Project charter

Outputs from planning processes

Enterprise environmental factors

Risks should be considered when selecting the content of each iteration.

Risks should be tailored for each iteration.

Risks should be identified, analyzed, and managed during each iteration.

Risks should be documented prior to each iteration.

Risks should be reviewed only once during each iteration.

Plan Communications Management

Manage Communications

Monitor Communications

Develop Project Management Plan

Direct and Manage Project Execution

Develop Project Management Plan

Close Project

Develop Project Charter

Manage Cost Plan

Estimate Costs

Determine Budget

Control Costs

Direct, control, and focus on structure.

Problem solve , achieve the bottom line, and focus on success.

Control, maintain project status, and develop.

Inspire, engage, and build relationships with people.

Skills and behaviors related to specific domains of project management

Knowledge and competencies needed to guide and motivate a team

Skills and behaviors needed to help an organization achieve its goals

Expertise in the industry and organization that deliver better outcomes

Transfer

Avoid

Exploit

Accept

Verify Deliverables

Validate Deliverables

Review Deliverables

Analyze Deliverables

Plan Schedule Management

Define Activities

Develop Schedule

Estimate Activity Durations

Procurement documents, contracts, requirements documentation, and basis of estimates

Basis of estimates, cost estimates, project schedule, and risk register

Business case, project charter, statement of work, and cost estimates

Scope baseline, resource management plan, activity list, and assumption log

Identify Stakeholders.

Plan Stakeholder Management.

Control Stakeholder Engagement.

Manage Stakeholder Engagement.

Project Cost Management

Project Integration Management

Project Resources Management

Project Scope Management

A self-organizing approach to increase team focus and maximize collaboration

A virtual team to minimize feeling of isolation and gaps on sharing knowledge

A distributed team to improve tracking progress, productivity, and performance

A norming approach that requires team members to adjust their behavior and work together

Risk register

Risk audits

Risk urgency assessment

Risk probability and impact assessment

Managing a project schedule

Developing a project delivery strategy

Establishing a project team

Understanding organizational objectives

Expert judgment, data analysis, and interpersonal and ream skills

Data analysis, audits, and decision making

Expert judgement, audits, and decision making

Meetings, data gathering, and expert judgment

Online technology enable projects to postpone ordering long lead items until the items are needed

Online technologies allow a project's progress to be viewed by all stakeholders to build better relations

Online procurement tools provide buyers with multiple sources to advertise to sellers.

Online procurement tools provide sellers with designated sources for procurement documents and the resources to complete them.

Work performance reports

Accepted deliverables

Project management plan updates

Organizational process assets

3

4

6

7

Resource availability

Infrastructure

Academic research

Corporate knowledge base

Collaborate/Problem Solve

Compromise/Reconcile

Smooth/Accommodate

Withdraw/Avoid

-700

-200

200

500

Conduct a feasibility study to determine the business impact of the new product.

Prepare a benefits management plan to capture target benefits and strategic alignment.

Execute a market study for similar products and demonstrate a market need.

Create a presentation outlining the business benefits of the new product.

The subject matter experts (SMEs) identified in the stakeholder register

The senior experts with high status in the academic community

The major stakeholders nominated by the project sponsor

The usual review participants holding recognized certifications

Cost variance (CV)

Cost performance index (CPI)

To-complete performance index (TCPI)

Variance at completion (VAC)

Monitoring and Controlling

Executing

Planning

Initiating

Project communications, project management plan updates, project documents updates, and organizational process assets updates

Work performance information, change requests, project management plan updates, and project documents updates

Communications management plan, project management plan updates, work performance report, and project documents update

Stakeholder engagement plan, change requests, project management plan updates, and project documents updates

management

response

tolerance

appetite

risk management plan

human resource management plan

scope management plan

procurement management plan

Leadership management

Technical project management

Strategic management

Business management

Predictive life cycle

Waterfall life cycle

Hybrid life cycle

Product life cycle

Control Procurements

Acquire Resources

Control Resources

Plan Procurement Management

Traceability

User interface design

Use case

Wireframe

Monitor and Control Project Work

Direct and Manage Project Work

Close Project or Phase

Perform Integrated Change Control

Sensitivity analysis

Simulation

Decision tree analysis

Influence diagram

Verify the deliverables to ensure that they are correct and meet the customer's satisfaction.

Accept all the deliverables and deliver them to the customer for final acceptance.

Conduct a joint session with the customer, change the deliverables, and then request approval.

Check that all change requests were implemented and release deliverables to the customer.

Orchestra conductor

Facilities supervisor

Functional manager

School principal

Simple

Multi-divisional

Functional

Project-oriented

Suppliers

Customers

Governing bodies

Project team

Project management plan

Pareto chart

Gantt chart

Responsible, accountable, consult, inform (RACI) matrix

Process flows

Project charter

Project baseline

Assumption log

Schedule forecast

Internal policies, company procedures, and organizational resources

Company culture, purchasing system, and project management information system

Organizational structure, governance framework, and management elements

Organizational process assets, enterprise environmental factors, and corporate knowledge

Project charter and project management plan

Communications management plan and scope management plan

Quality management plan and risk management plan

Project scope statement and communications management plan

The project must be of high quality.

The stakeholders are from different countries.

The project must comply with strict local government regulations.

The project has a tight budget and timeline.

Enables the development of make-or-buy decisions

Ensures that contract performance meets the terms of the legal agreement

Guarantees that legal agreements influence vendor selection

Assures that legal agreements guide contract closings

Helps determine whether a certain type of contract should be used

Project stakeholders should be Identified and engaged in every phase of the project to influence the success of the project directly.

Project stakeholders should be identified and engaged once the prototype is completed to provide their feedback but refrain from making inputs during the project.

Project stakeholders should be identified when the project chatter is being completed and engaged during requirements gathering.

Project stakeholders should be identified and engaged during requirements elicitation but not during the Define Scope process.

Legal restrictions

Financial considerations

Commercial database

Geographic distribution of facilities

Critical path method

Rolling wave planning

Precedence diagramming method

Parametric estimating

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis

Plan Risk Responses

Implement Risk Responses

Formal authorization of the existence of the project

Formal acceptance of the project management plan

Formal approval of the detailed project budget

Formal definition of stakeholder roles and responsibilities

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

Hybrid methodologies

Risk register updates

Outsourced project resources

Reliance on lessons learned documents

Plan Quality Management

Control Quality

Risk Management

Plan Scope Management

Plan Risk Responses

Implement Risk Responses

Plan Risk Management

Perform Quantitative Risk Responses

Least cost

Qualifications only

Sole source

Fixed budget

project scope

product scope

service scope

product breakdown structure

Information management systems

Work performance reports

Stakeholder analysis

Data gathering and representation

prototypes

requirements

analyses

benchmarks

Critical chain method

Graphical evaluation and review technique (GERT) diagram

Gantt chart

Project network diagram

Planning and risk management skills

Communication and time management skills

Business intelligence and leadership skills

Strategic and business management skills

Manage Scope

Collect Requirements

Define Scope

Validate Scope

Involvement is needed only during project initiation.

Minimal involvement of stakeholders is sufficient.

They should be continuously engaged.

They should be involved only during phase or deliverable reviews.

Requirements keep changing.

An artifact must be produced.

A tool or technique is required.

Each project is unique.

Risk register

Risk data quality assessment

Risk categorization

Risk urgency

a Knowledge Area

a Process Group

program management

portfolio management

Estimate Costs

Control Costs

Plan Cost Management

Determine Budget

Project Management

Program Management

Portfolio Management

Operations Management

Smooth/accommodate

Collaborate/problem solve

Withdraw/avoid

Force/direct

Develop Schedule

Create VVBS

Estimate Activity Resources

Define Scope

Diversity background

Stakeholder's relationships

Technical expertise

Knowledge management

Estimates specific time and the deadline when the products, services and results will be delivered.

Determines in details the resources and time that each task will require to be done

Represents how and when the project will deliver the results defined in the project scope.

It provides the relationships among the project activities and their risks.

After the project management plan is completed

After the stakeholder engagement plan is completed

As soon as the project charter has been approved

After the communications management plan is completed

Given immediately after the project is completed.

Something that is tangible.

Formally given during project performance appraisals.

Satisfying a need valued by the individual.

-12

1.15

38

12

improvement

program

result

portfolio

Deliverables.

Validated changes.

The change log.

The requirements traceability matrix.

Status

Daily standup

Iteration planning

Release planning

Project charter

Risk register

Scope baseline

Stakeholder register

Post project artifacts in a transparent fashion and engage stakeholders on a regular basis.

Make surveys among the stakeholders and meet with the team once a month.

Create a social network and post news there.

Create personalized emails for each stakeholder, asking for requests and reviewing objectives with them periodically.

Text-oriented formal

Resource management plan

Organization chart

Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)

compiling a list of known risks and preparing responses to them.

assessing the probability of occurrence and Impact for every risk in the risk register.

evaluating the contingency and management reserves required for the project.

analyzing numerically the impact of individual risks on the overall project's time and cost objectives.

Project activities

Work packages

Planning packages

Project deliverables

Procurement statement of work (SOW)

Procurement strategy

Terms of reference

Change request

Identifying and planning procurement requirements, obtaining quotes or proposals, negotiating with vendors, contracting with selected vendors, and controlling procurements

Identifying and planning procurement requirements, negotiating with vendors, contracting with selected vendors, obtaining quotes or proposals, and controlling procurements

Controlling procurements, identifying and planning procurement requirements, obtaining quotes or proposals, negotiating with vendors, and contracting with selected vendors

Obtaining quotes or proposals, identifying and planning procurement requirements, negotiating with vendors, contracting with selected vendors, and controlling procurements

Identify Stakeholders

Plan Stakeholder Engagement

Manage Stakeholder Engagement

Monitor Slakeholder Engagement

Business case.

Activity list.

Project management plan.

Cost forecast.

Earned value management.

Enterprise environmental factors.

Organizational process assets.

Work performance information.

Earned value management (EVM)

Estimate at completion (EAC)

Earned value analysis (EVA)

Budget at completion (BAG)

Expert judgment

Lessons learned

Cost estimates

Project management plan

Mandatory

Discretionary

Internal

External

Project Quality Management and Project Time Management

Project Scope Management and Project Risk Management

Project Stakeholder Management and Project Cost Management

Project Integration Management and Project Procurement Management

Organizational process assets.

Enterprise environmental factors updates.

Project staff assignments.

Organizational charts and position descriptions.

Cost baseline

Service level agreement

Memorandum of understanding

Business case

Plan Risk Responses

Plan Risk Management

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis

Performance measurement baseline.

Analysis of project forecasts,

Summary of changes approved in a period,

Analysis of past performance.

Project document updates

Activity list

Activity attributes

Project calendars

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)

Project assignment chart

Personnel assignment matrix

Power/influence grid

Power/interest grid

Influence/impact grid

Salience model

Transference

Avoidance

Exploring

Mitigation

a project by dividing the project into more manageable sub-projects.

a project by utilizing a portfolio of general management skills such as planning, organizing, staffing, executing, and controlling.

all projects undertaken by a company.

a collection of projects that are grouped together to facilitate effective management and meet strategic business objectives.

Finish-to-start planning

Rolling wave planning

Short term planning

Dependency determination

Supportive

Leading

Neutral

Resistant

Product

Cost-benefit

Stakeholder

Research

Final phase of the project

Start of the project

End of the project

Midpoint of the project

Scope audits

Scope reviews

Quality audits

Control chart

sponsor

customer

business partners

functional managers

Root cause analysis.

Risk probability and impact assessment.

Expert judgment.

Revised stakeholders' tolerances.

Organizational breakdown structure (OBS)

Resource breakdown structure (RBS)

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

Project breakdown structure (PBS)

Make-or-buy decisions.

Activity cost estimates.

Seller proposals.

Procurement documents.

Utilize the change control process.

Crash the schedule to fix the defect.

Leave the defect in and work around it.

Fast-track the remaining development.

Integrating all planned activities

Performing the activities included in the plan

Developing and maintaining the plan

Execution of deliverables

Product and sprint backlog

Key performance indicators (KPIs) and baseline

Increments and bottlenecks

Burndown and burnup charts

recognition and rewards

compliance

staff acquisition

training needs

Control charts

Pareto diagrams

Ishikavva diagrams

Checksheets

Schedule data

Activity list

Risk register

Scope baseline

Customer

Sponsor

Seller

Functional manager

defect repair

work repair

corrective action

preventive action

Collect Requirements

Plan Scope Management

Define Scope

Define Activities

Communication methods

Information technology

Communication models

Information management systems

Process analysis and expert judgment

Analytical techniques and a project management information system

Performance reviews and meetings

Expert judgment and meetings

performance measurement criteria

source selection criteria

product acceptance criteria

phase exit criteria

tracking

scoping

timing

defining

Estimate Costs

Control Costs

Plan Cost Management

Determine Budget

Marketplace conditions

Policies and procedures

Project files from previous projects

Lessons learned from previous projects

Manage the timely completion of the project.

Ensure that the project includes all of the work required.

Make sure the project will satisfy the needs for which it was begun.

Reduce the risk of negative events in the project.

Completed without planning

A routine business process

Long in duration

Ongoing to produce goods

Business case

Work breakdown structure

Requirements documentation

Risk register

Consultants and stakeholders

Stakeholders and functional managers

Project team members and consultants

Project team members and stakeholders

Control chart

Flowchart

Checksheet

Pareto diagram

0.8

1

1.25

1.8

Acquire Project Team.

Plan Human Resource Management.

Manage Project Team.

Develop Project Team.

Stakeholder requirements, staffing requirements, and transition requirements.

Business requirements, the stakeholder register, and functional requirements.

Stakeholder impact, budget requirements, and communications requirements.

Business objectives, stakeholder impact, and functional requirements.

Within a work package.

In each phase of the project.

To estimate schedule constraints.

To estimate resource allocations.

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis

Control Risks

Plan Risk Responses

Manage Project Team

Acquire Project Team

Develop Project Team

Plan Human Resource Management

Force/direct

Withdraw/avoid

Compromise/reconcile

Collaborate/problem solve

Control Quality

Control Scope

Monitor and Control Project Work

Perform Integrated Change Control

Urgent information need

Sensitivity of information

Project environment

Ease of use

0.50

0.67

1.50

2.00

Define Activities

Direct and Manage Project Work

Develop Project Management Plan

Develop Project Charter

Project team

Focus group

Change control board

Project stakeholders

Manage Project Team

Acquire Project Team

Plan Human Resource Management

Develop Project Team

Before the Define Activities process

During the Define Activities process

Before the Sequence Activities process

During the Sequence Activities process

The project charter.

The stakeholder analysis.

A communication management plan.

A stakeholder register.

organizational skills

technical skills

communication skills

hard skills

Historical relationships

Dependency determination

Bottom-up estimating

Rolling wave planning

Plan Schedule Management.

Develop Project Charter.

Develop Schedule.

Plan Scope Management.

Monitor and Control Project Work

Perform Quality Assurance

Close Project or Phase

Control Scope

Interrelationship digraphs

Tree diagram

Affinity diagram

Network diagram

A-B-C-F-G-I

A-B-C-F-H-I

A-D-E-F-G-I

A-D-E-F-H-I

Plan Human Resource Management.

Acquire Project Team.

Manage Project Team.

Develop Project Team.

Control Scope

Define Scope

Plan Scope Management

Collect Requirements

Scope baseline.

Change requests.

Accepted deliverables.

Variance analysis.

Work breakdown structure

Requirements document

Project charter

Project management plan

quality plan.

schedule network.

management document update.

scope statement.

corrective action.

preventive action.

non-conformance report,

defect repair.

Contract plan

Procurement plan

Closure process

Procurement audits

risk data quality assessment.

variance and trend analysis.

data gathering and representation techniques.

risk audits.

Analysis

Appetite

Tolerance

Response

Smooth/accommodate

Withdraw/avoid

Compromise/reconcile

Force/direct

Ishikawa

Milestone

Influence

Decision tree

-8000

-2000

2000

8000

Activity sequencing

Resource leveling

Lead and lag adjusting

Crashing

3

4

5

6

Develop Human Resource Plan.

Manage Project Team.

Develop Project Team.

Acquire Project Team.

Changing project specifications continuously

Elaborate tracking of the project progress

Elaborate tracking of the project specifications with a change control system

Project specifications becoming more explicit and detailed as the project progresses

Project Scope Management

Project Time Management

Project Communications Management

Project Quality Management

Determine Budget.

Baseline Budget.

Control Costs.

Estimate Costs.

Analogous

Parametric

Three-point

What-if scenario analysis

Brainstorming

Strategies for opportunities

Decision tree analysis

Risk data quality assessment

Expert judgment

Project management methodology

Stakeholder analysis

Status review meetings

Control Schedule.

Quality Control.

Perform Integrated Change Control.

Develop Schedule.

Acquire Project Team

Develop Project Management Plan

Manage Project Execution

Develop Project Charter

Functional

Projectized

Matrix

Balanced

Project schedule

Organizational process assets updates

Project document updates

Work performance information

Initiating

Planning

Monitoring and Controlling

Executing

Perform Quality Assurance

Direct and Manage Project Work

Monitor and Control Project Work

Perform Integrated Change Control

Expert judgment.

Analytical techniques.

Earned value management.

Group decision-making techniques.

Develop Costs. Estimate Costs, Determine Budget. Control Costs

Develop Budget, Determine Budget, Determine Risks, Control Costs

Plan Cost Management, Estimate Costs. Determine Budget. Control Costs

Plan Budget Management. Determine Budget, Create Cost Accounts. Control Costs

Supportive

Directive

Controlling

Instructive

Document analysis

Observations

Product analysis

Expert judgment

Facilitation techniques

Expert judgment

Analytical techniques

Variance analysis

Plan Cost Management

Plan Scope Management

Plan Stakeholder Management

Plan Schedule Management

Project Communications Management

Project Integration Management

Project Risk Management

Project Scope Management

Only once, at the beginning

At the beginning and the end

Once during each phase

Repeatedly

Deliverables.

Activity lists.

A work breakdown structure.

A scope statement.

The project management plan.

The stakeholder register.

Procurement documents.

Stakeholder analysis.

2

3

5

8

Stop working on the project completely, even if the team can continue working on the tasks with the identified risk.

Accept the project delay and add the risk to the lessons learned document for the next project.

Change the delivery date and deliver the initially agreed-upon scope after mitigation of the identified risk.

Reprioritize the work based on the increased visibility of the current risks.

Scope baseline

Decomposition

Critical path method (CPM)

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

Activity attributes

Quality control measurements

Enterprise environmental factors

Deliverables

Vendor risk assessment diagram

Risk register

Requirements traceability matrix

Area of responsibility summary

Asking what and why

Challenging the status quo

Innovating

Relying on control

To define a new project

To track and monitor processes easily

To logically group processes to achieve specific project objectives

To link specific process inputs and outputs

Business analyst, product team, and key stakeholders

Project manager, business analyst, and key stakeholders

Project manager, business analyst, and project sponsor

Project sponsor, business analyst, and key stakeholders

Manage Quality

Plan Quality Management

Control Quality

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

Enterprise environmental factors

Work performance reports

Organizational process assets

Context diagrams

Early

Middle

Late

Completion

Procurement documents

Inspection and audits

Estimate budget

Risk register

Acquisition

Earned value management

Vendor bid analysis

Forecasting

Earned value management.

Forecasting.

Critical chain methodology.

Critical path methodology.

The best use of communication methods.

An efficient and effective communication flow.

Project costs to be reduced.

The best use of communication technology.

Procurement documents

Communications plan

Project charter

Stakeholder register

Executing Process Group and Project Time Management

Executing Process Group and Project Cost Management

Planning Process Group and Project Time Management

Planning Process Group and Project Cost Management

nominal group technique

majority

affinity diagram

multi-criteria decision analysis

Decomposition

Inspection

Project analysis

Document analysis

Direct and Manage Project Work

Develop Project Management Plan

Plan Quality Management

Monitor and Control Project Work

Provide information needed to plan appropriate ways to engage project stakeholders.

Ensure comprehensive identification and listing of new stakeholders.

Analyze the information needed to develop the project scope statement.

Decide the level of engagement of the stakeholders at each required stage.

Require communication technology that is not readily available.

Create difficulties when including people with disabilities.

Often cannot accommodate teams that work different hours or shifts.

Create the possibility for misunderstandings to arise.

Benchmarking, expert judgment, and analytical techniques

Statistical sampling, benchmarking, and meetings

Negotiations, pre-assignment, and multi-criteria decision analysis

Expert judgment, analytical techniques, and meetings

Technical approach

Technical capability

Business size and type

Production capacity and interest

Scope baseline, work breakdown structure (WBS), estimated costs, and milestone list

Resource management plan, organizational process assets, activity list, and business case

Enterprise environmental factors, organizational process assets, project charter, and project management plan

Activity list, project statement of work, project charter, and communications management plan

Work performance reports

Assumptions logs

Network diagrams

Academic studies

majority rule technique.

nominal group technique.

Delphi technique,

idea/mind mapping technique.

Acquisition

Negotiation

Virtual team

Pre-assignment

Cost Plus Award Fee Contract (CPAF)

Firm-Fixed -Price Contract (FFP)

Time and Material Contract (T&M)

Cost Plus Incentive Fee Contract (CPIF)

Scope baseline, cost baseline, and schedule baseline

Scope baseline, project management baseline, and quality baseline

Cost baseline, schedule baseline, and risk baseline

Cost baseline, project management baseline, and schedule baseline

Forming

Storming

Norming

Performing

under budget and behind schedule.

over budget and ahead of schedule.

on schedule.

complete; all planned values have been earned.

Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP)

Fixed Price with Economic Price Adjustments (FP-EPA)

Fixed-Price-Incentive-Fee (FPIF)

Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF)

External

Lead

Discretionary

Mandatory

Scope baseline

Organizational process assets

Enterprise environmental factors

Risk register

quality management plan.

project management plan.

communications management plan.

schedule management plan.

Probability

Quantitative

Qualitative

Sensitivity

Avoid

Accept

Mitigate

Exploit

facilitated workshops.

observations.

questionnaires and surveys.

group creativity techniques.

Project manager

External stakeholders

Internal stakeholders

Project team

Start-to-start (SS)

Start-to-finish (SF)

Rnish-to-finish (FF)

Finish-to-start (FS)

Define Activities

Estimate Activity Durations

Estimate Activity Resources

Sequence Activities

Customer requests and/or issue resolution

Stakeholder expectations and/or strategic opportunity (business need)

Technological advancement and/or senior executive request

Market demand and/or legal requirements

Transfer

Share

Avoid

Accept

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

Identify Risks

Plan Risk Management

Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis

Plan contracting

Requesting seller responses

Selecting seller's

Planning purchase and acquisition

Requirements traceability matrix

Project scope statement

WBS dictionary

Work performance measurements

Sensitivity analysis

Three-point estimate

Modeling and simulation

Expected monetary value analysis

requirements documentation.

scope baseline.

project charter.

validated deliverables.

Human resources plan changes and project staff assignment updates

Project management plan updates and enterprise environmental factor updates

Resource calendars and project management plan updates

Team performance assessments and enterprise environmental factor updates

Project sponsor

Project manager

Person responsible for project scheduling

Person who is most familiar with the task

Pareto chart

Regression analysis

Statistical sampling

Automated testing tools

2

3

4

6

Definition of ready (DoR)

Burndown chart

Backlog refinement

Definition of done (DoD)

Having a minimum viable product first can take more time.

Iterations are longer than the execution phase of a traditional project.

Timeboxing increases the time needed to accomplish tasks.

It takes time to understand what the project needs to deliver.

Work breakdown structure (WBS) status

Quality and technical performance measures

Cost and scope baselines

Business case completeness

Add this risk to the lessons learned register on project completion.

Add the stakeholder to the stakeholder register and add the risk to the risk register.

Make sure proper testing gets completed to minimize the risk highlighted.

Ignore the risk from this stakeholder as this stakeholder never showed up at the start of the project.

High-level deliverables

Success criteria

Project objectives

Phase transitions

Decomposition

Reporting

Voting

Brainstorming

Rely on control.

Focus on near-team goals.

Convey trust and inspire trust in other team members.

Challenge the status quo and do things differently.

Focus on the horizon.

A range of techniques utilizing a plan driven approach, adaptive approach or a hybrid ot both

Only techniques of an agile/adaptive approach in large organizations

Change the role of the project manager to managing pro|ci I in adaptive nuviionin-

Splitting larger projects into two or more smaller project is which can be addressed in an adaptive method

Escalation processes, person responsible for communicating the information, glossary of common terminology, methods or technologies used to convey the information

Phone book directory, stakeholder communication requirements, project charter, glossary of common terminology

Organizational chart, escalation processes, person responsible for communicating the information, project management plan, glossary of common terminology

Glossary of common terminology, constraints denved from specific legislation and regulation, person responsible for communicating information, project management plan, resource management plan

understand the high-level overview of the organization

tailor traditional and agile tools for the project

work with stakeholders to develop an appropriate project delivery

guide, motivate, and direct a team to reach project goals

By delivering the benefit of managing the program's projects in a coordinated manner

By the quality, timeliness, cost-etfectiveness. and customer saDstaction of the product or service

By completing the right projects to achieve objectives rather than completing projects the right way

By aggregating the successes of the individual projects in the program

Monitor Communications

Plan Communications Management

Manage Communications

Manage Stakeholder Engagement

When they are needed to accomplish a set of goals and objectives for an organization

When they have the same project manager and the same organizational unit

When they have the same scope, budget, and schedule

When they are from the same unit of the organization

Predictive

Adaptive

A mix

Agile

List of identified risks, potential risk owners, list of potential risk response

List of identified risks, list of causes, list of risk categories

Short risk titles, list of potential risk owners, list of impacts on objectives

List of activities affected, list of potential risk responses, list of causes

Include stakeholders in project meetings and reviews, use frequent checkpoints, and co-locate team members only.

Invite customers to sprint planning and retrospective meetings, update the team quickly and on a daily basis, and use official communication channels.

Adopt social networking to engage stakeholders, issue frequent and short messages, and use informal communication channels.

Adopt a strong change control board process, establish focal points for main subjects, and promote formal and transparent communication.

Compromising

Collaborating

Smoothing

Problem Solving

Arrow Diagram.

Critical Path Methodology (CPM).

Activity-On-Node (AON).

schedule network diagram.

Manage Stakeholder Expectations

Report Performance

Distribute Information

Plan Communications

Three weeks

Four weeks

Five weeks

Six weeks

Plan Quality

Perform Quality Control

Perform Quality Assurance

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

Expert judgment

Risk registry

Risk response planning

Interviewing

Performance report

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

Requested changes

Project management plan

Organizational breakdown structure (OBS)

Work performance information

Work package

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

Plan Resource Management

Estimate Activity Resources

Estimate Costs

Acquire Resources

Early requirements gathering

Feedback analysis

Progressive elaboration

Requirements documentation

Government standards

Organizational culture

Employee capabilities

Organizational knowledge bases

Risk, resource, and communications management plans

Scope, quality, and resource management plans

Procurement, integration, and risk management plans

Communications, schedule, and cost management plans

Acquire Resources

Control Resources

Manage Team

Develop Team

Push communication

Pull communication

Interactive communication

Stakeholder communication

A process improvement plan,

Quality control measurements.

Work performance information,

The project management plan.

Business case

Risk breakdown structure

Project charter

Risk register

Benchmarking.

Context diagrams.

Brainstorming.

Prototyping.

Resource calendar

Scope baseline

Trend analysis

Cost baseline

Influencing

Motivation

Negotiation

Trust building

tangible

targeted

organized

variable

project records

project reports

stakeholder notifications

stakeholder register

0.83

0.9

1.11

1.33

Collaboration

Negotiation

Decision making

Influencing

expert judgment and change requests.

work performance information and change requests.

organizational process asset updates and an issue log.

project management plan updates and an issue log.

Product scope description

Procurement statement of work

Project schedule

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

Performed by systems

Constrained by limited resources

Repetitiveness

Uniqueness

Project Time Management

Project Cost Management

Project Scope Management

Project Human Resource Management

Risk assessment analysis

Make or buy analysis

Contract value analysis

Cost impact analysis

Cost right at the estimated value

Cost under the estimated value

Cost right at the actual value

Cost over the estimated value

A single product lifecycle may consist of multiple project lifecycles.

A product lifecycle is always shorter than the project lifecycle.

A single product lifecycle can only have one project lifecycle.

A single project lifecycle may consist of multiple product lifecycles.

Perform Quality Control

Verify Scope

Control Scope

Develop Schedule

establish and manage project communication channels, both external and internal to the project team.

influence the stakeholders that want to circumvent integrated change control so that their changes are implemented.

monitor the ongoing project team against the team performance assessments and the project performance baseline.

observe and measure project performance regularly and consistently to identify variances from the project management plan.

inspections.

equipment and training.

lost business.

reworking and scrapping.

Cost-reimbursable

Time and material

Fixed price or lump-sum

Cost-plus-fixed-fee

Internal failure costs

Prevention costs

Appraisal costs

External failure costs