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1 - IS 491 || Chapter 11 || Project Management
1 - IS 491 || Chapter 11 || Project Management
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03/27/2019

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Term
What percentage of projects are the following?:

Late, over budget or don't perform.
Definition
67%
Term
What is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service?
Definition
Project
Term
Who is anyone involved or with affected interests?

Examples are:
-Project Manager
-Project Team
-Project Sponsor
-Customers
-Employees
Definition
Project Stakeholders
Term
What is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet project requirements?
Definition
Project Management
Term
What is the interaction of time, cost and quality?
Definition
Project Triangle
Term
If you have any two elements in a project triangle you will lack what element?
Definition
The Third
Term
What are the following?:

•Project management

•Project team

•Project cycle plan

•Common project vocabulary
Definition
Essential Elements Of Project Management
Term
What are the following elements of:

Focus, align and motivate members by managing.
Definition
Strong Project Management
Term
Project leadership and project management processes have what kind of strength relationship?
Definition
Inverse
Term
What organizes the steps, defines dates, breaking work into phases, determining when each phase is reached, when the project goes live and what tools are needed/used?
Definition
Project Cycle Plan
Term
What is a small project is a piece of a larger project?
Definition
Subproject
Term
What type of chart is made up of tables that include the title of a phase, how long said phase will last, how many people are needed, the start time and the end time of each phase and what occurs afterwards?
Definition
PERT
Term
What type of chart keeps track of tasks, task duration, task dates, what tasks come before each other, splits, progress and milestones?
Definition
GANTT
Term
According to what law, IS projects can become less efficient (slowed down) with increased labor?
Definition
Brook's Law
Term
What are the following steps of:
1.Initiate
2.Define Requirements
3.Functional Design
4.Build System
5. Verify
6. Change to new System
7. Maintain and Review
Definition
Systems Development Life Cycle
Term
RAD is short for what prototyping plus four step SDLC for faster system building?
Definition
Rapid Application Development
Term
What are the following:

Complexity

Clarity

Size

Geometric
Definition
Elements of Project Risk
Term
What are the following?:

Leverage team skills

Rely on consultants and vendors

Integrate within the organization

Document extensively

Make regular technical status reviews
Definition
Management Methods Of Complex Risk
Term
What is the rule that ninety percent of the project takes ninety percent of the work and that the last ninety percent of the project takes ninety percent of the work?
Definition
Ninety-Ninety Rule
Term
What are the following?:

Resource Constraints

Impacts on Costumers

Business Success

Future Preparations
Definition
Four Dimensions of Success
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