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Project Management Plan (PMP)
The formal, approved document that outlines how a project will be executed, monitored, controlled, and closed.
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Scope Creep
The gradual, uncontrolled expansion of a project’s scope.
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Scope Management Plan
A document that addresses how the scope of the project will be managed throughout the project life cycle. This can also be known as the scope document.
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Business Requirements
A type of requirement that refers to the needs of the sponsoring organization, always from a management perspective.
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Deliverables
The tangible output a project provides.
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Development Requirement
A type of requirement that focuses on the limits on the process when creating a deliverable, such as budget.
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Functional Requirements
A type of requirement that describes the characteristics of the deliverable in ordinary non-technical language.
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Non-Functional Requirements
A type of requirement that specifies criteria that can be used to judge the final product or service that your project delivers.
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Performance Requirement
A type of requirement that states how well the requirement must perform after it is completed.
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Regulatory Requirements
A type of requirement that may be internal or external and include restrictions, licenses, and laws applicable to a product or business that are imposed by the government.
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Requirements
Describe the characteristics of the deliverable, whether it is a product or a service.
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Requirements Traceability Matrix
A document that provides a way to track all requirements that have been agreed upon to make sure nothing gets lost or forgotten.
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Technical Requirements
A type of requirement that emerges from the functional requirements to specify how the system needs to be designed and implemented to provide required functionality and fulfill required operational characteristics.
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User Requirements
Requirements from the perspective of the end-user experience.
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Acceptance Criteria
A list of things that define what conditions must be met for a product, service, or deliverables to be considered complete and acceptable to the client or stakeholder. It also addresses the responsibilities of each stakeholder.
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Scope Validation
A check-in to ensure the deliverables meet requirements, often identified in the scope management document.
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Flexible Backlog
A way to break down work in Agile, and a living to-do list for the project where instead of mapping out every single task, the backlog holds all the features, ideas, and user stories the team might work on.
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Hierarchical Decomposition
A method to break down large projects into hierarchical subcomponents to simplify and better understand what needs to be done to complete a project.
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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
A process where the project deliverables are broken into smaller, manageable work components.
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100% Rule
States that the WBS must contain all of the work necessary to complete the project, nothing more and nothing less.
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Baselining
A fixed, agreed upon reference point for a project.
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Work Package
The groupings of project work, usually defined by a major deliverable and its sub deliverables.