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C722 - module 29, 30
Project Management
Term | Definition |
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stages of team development | forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning |
stage 1 - forming | In this stage, team members may be meeting for the first time. Often, no one really knows much about anyone else on the team |
stage 2 - storming | Team members are beginning to learn about each other, but they do not yet understand how to work together |
stage 3 - norming | Team members have "figured out" how they will interact with each other. Working relationships are beginning to form. Trust and understanding is beginning to form among team members |
stage 4 - performing | Team members are fully comfortable working together. Trust has been developed. Working relationships have jelled. Work is being conducted and project progress is occurring. |
stage 5 - adjourning | This only occurs when all the team’s work has been completed and the team is no longer required. This may occur at any time in the project life cycle |
co-located teams | involves team members physically working at the same location or holding project meetings together in a common setup |
virtual teams | are teams whose members interact primarily through electronic communications. Members of a virtual team may be within the same building or across continents. |
change management process | identify change, evaluate change, decision, communicate change |
identify change | means having processes in place to document changes as soon as they are identified |
evaluate change | means ensuring that the appropriate stakeholders provide input to identify the costs and benefits of the change |
decision | if the proposed change will be implemented |
communicate change | involves notifying the project team of the change, updating the project plans to incorporate the change, and implementing the change |
contingency plans | are preplanned responses to events |
corrective action | is a process to document quality failures that have occurred and how they will be corrected |
scope creep | occurs when the project team integrates enhancements to the scope without proper evaluation and approval |
work performance data | will identify the work activities that are completed, partially completed, or not started |
project controls | are the data gathering, management, and analytical processes used to predict, understand, and constructively influence the time and cost outcomes of a project or program |
quality management | quality assurance, quality audit, quality control |
quality assurance | is a review of the fully defined project requirements to validate and ensure that they are feasible and suitable |
quality audit | are rigorous reviews of the project performance. These reviews are often completed by groups of experts outside of the project team, such as a company’s quality assurance (QA) department or an outside consultant |
quality control | is the process of monitoring and changing project execution to ensure that activities are being executed as planned and will result in meeting the customer requirements |