Project Management Brain Dump

Conflict Strategies

Project charter
- Official authorization
- Project purpose
- Objectives
- Milestones
Project scope change management process
- Identify a change request
- Change
- Send the change to a review board
- Do an impact analysis.
Project scope
- The work done to deliver a product, service, or results
Procurement
- Getting external resources
WBS
- Work, deliverables, phases, projects

Initiating:
- Project charter is created
- Business needs determined
Planning:
- Schedule, scope, and budget depend on each other
Executing:
- Putting the project into action
- Implementing phases
Monitoring and Controlling
- Frequent status updates
  - Quality
    - Quality assurance: Preventing defects and measuring quality
    - Quality control: Finding and fixing defects as well as preventing future error
Closing
- Acceptance
- Closing contracts

Predictive
- Scope is completely defined
- Changes are requested and approved by a change control board
- Overall risk is assessed
- Critical path is established
Adaptive
- Scope and requirements are not fully defined at the
  beginning.
- May have product backlog
Hybrid
- Work is defined but timing is not
  Scheduling problems
Slipping task
- Project in progress and behind schedule
Slipped task
- Task completed behind schedule
Product backlog
- Utilizing sprints
- Adaptive projects
Scope creep
- Unauthorized changes to scope
Critical path
- Adding resources to a project will affect the critical path and length of a project
- Shows shortest path, start to finish
Fast-tracking
- Doing a task while working on another task when it was meant to be completed sequentially
Crashing
- Adding additional resources to reduce a task’s duration
Gold plating
- Delivering more than what was asked for on a project

Team member
- Reports to managers when tasks are finished
- Completes tasks
- Tests products
Project manager
- Deals with ethics
- Manages the people working on a project
- Implements approved change requests
- Can move team members around
Manager
- Report to project managers
- Team members can bring immediate concerns to them
Project sponsor
- Key financial stakeholder
- Provide funding
- Has ULTIMATE SIGNOFF on project deliverables
- Approves projects
Customer
- Test final product and use it
- Decides whether the project was built to the requirements
- Signs off on the product
Vendor
- Receive contracts to perform work and provide materials

Analogous
- Estimating costs based on similar projects
Parametric
- Estimating costs per something measurable
Top-down
- Adding up the costs of each phase and spreading the cost out over tasks
Bottom-up
- Estimating costs of each task then adding them up to get an overall estimate.