Information Technology Project Management - Chapter 5 - 8e

Scope

refers to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the processes used to create them

Deliverable

A product created as part of a project

Project Scope Management

includes the processes involved in defining and controlling what is or is not included in a project

Requirements

conditions or capabilities that must be met by the project or present in the product, service, or result to satisfy an agreement or other formally imposed specification

Requirements Management Plan

documents how project requirements will be analyzed, documented, and managed

Benchmarking

Generating ideas by comparing specific project practices or product characteristics to those of other projects or products inside or outside the performing organization

Requirements Traceability Matrix

a table that lists requirements, various attributes of each requirement, and the status of the requirements to ensure that all requirements are addressed

Project Scope Statement

include at least a product scope description, product user acceptance criteria, and detailed information on all project deliverables

Work Breakdown Structure

a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project

Decompisition

subdividing project deliverables into smaller pieces

Scope Baseline

includes approved project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary

Work Package

A task at the lowest level of the WBS

analogy approach

you use a similar project's WBS as a starting point.

top-down approach

Start with the largest items of the project and break them down into subordinate items

bottom-up approach

team members first identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible.

WBS Dictionary

a document that provides detailed information about each WBS item.

Scope Creep

the tendency for project scope to keep getting larger

scope validation

involves formal acceptance of the completed project deliverables

Variance

the difference between planned and actual performance

Prototyping

Developing a working replica of the system or some aspect of it to help define user requirements

use case modeling

A process for identifying and modeling business events, who initiated them, and how the system should respond to them

Joint Application Design (JAD)

uses highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholders to jointly define and design information systems