Project Attributes - Answers - a project has a unique purpose
- a project is temporary
-a project is developed using progressive elaboration
- a project requires resources, often from various areas
- a project should have a primary customer or sponsor
- a project involves uncertainty
operations - Answers work done in organizations to sustain business
Project - Answers a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result
Project manager - Answers work with the project sponsors, team, and other people involved to achieve
project goals
triple constraint - Answers the three project constraints: scope, time, and cost goals
scope - Answers what work will be done for the unique product, service or result
time - Answers how long it will take to complete a project; what is the schedule
cost - Answers what will it cost to complete the project; what is the budget
quadruple constraint - Answers scope, time, cost and quality
quality - Answers standards of the scope that satisfy the sponsor
project management - Answers the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project
activities to meet project requirements
stakeholder - Answers people involved in or affected by project activities, and include the project
sponsor, project team, support staff, customers, users, suppliers, and opposition
i.e. building a home
project management knowledge areas - Answers describe the key competencies that project managers
must develop
10 knowledge areas of project management - Answers 1. scope management
2. human resource management