Information technology project management - Chapter 5 Test Bank Solution Manual Rated A+
Joint application design (J a D) - Answers Using highly organized and intensive workshop's to bring
together project stakeholders, the sponsor, users, business analysts, programmers, and so on, to jointly
define and design information systems
Use case modeling - Answers A process for identifying and modeling business events, who initiated
them, and how the system should respond to them
Prototyping - Answers Developing a working replica of the system or some aspect of a system to help
define user requirements
Variance - Answers The difference between planned an actual performance
Scope validation - Answers Formal acceptance of the completed project deliverables
Scope creep - Answers The tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger
Work breakdown structure (WBS) dictionary - Answers A document that describes detailed information
about each work breakdown structure (WBS) item
Bottom up approach - Answers Creating a work breakdown structure (WBS) by having team members
identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible and then grouping them into higher
level categories
Top down approach - Answers Creating a work breakdown structure (WBS) by starting with the largest
items of the project and breaking them into their subordinate items
Analogy approach - Answers Creating a work breakdown structure (WBS) by using a similar project's
WBS as a starting point
Work package - Answers A task at the lowest level of the work breakdown structure (WBS)
Scope baseline - Answers The approved project scope statement and its associated work breakdown
structure (WBS) and WBS dictionary
Decomposition - Answers Subdividing project deliverables into smaller pieces
Work breakdown structure (WBS) - Answers A deliverable oriented grouping of the work involved in a
project that defines the total scope of the project
Project scope statement - Answers A document that includes, at a minimum, a description of the
project, including its overall objectives and justification, detailed descriptions of all project deliverables,
and the characteristics and requirements of products and services produced as part of the project
Requirements traceability matrix (RTM) - Answers A table that list requirements, there are various
attributes, and the status of the requirements to ensure that all are addressed
Joint application design (J a D) - Answers Using highly organized and intensive workshop's to bring
together project stakeholders, the sponsor, users, business analysts, programmers, and so on, to jointly
define and design information systems
Use case modeling - Answers A process for identifying and modeling business events, who initiated
them, and how the system should respond to them
Prototyping - Answers Developing a working replica of the system or some aspect of a system to help
define user requirements
Variance - Answers The difference between planned an actual performance
Scope validation - Answers Formal acceptance of the completed project deliverables
Scope creep - Answers The tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger
Work breakdown structure (WBS) dictionary - Answers A document that describes detailed information
about each work breakdown structure (WBS) item
Bottom up approach - Answers Creating a work breakdown structure (WBS) by having team members
identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible and then grouping them into higher
level categories
Top down approach - Answers Creating a work breakdown structure (WBS) by starting with the largest
items of the project and breaking them into their subordinate items
Analogy approach - Answers Creating a work breakdown structure (WBS) by using a similar project's
WBS as a starting point
Work package - Answers A task at the lowest level of the work breakdown structure (WBS)
Scope baseline - Answers The approved project scope statement and its associated work breakdown
structure (WBS) and WBS dictionary
Decomposition - Answers Subdividing project deliverables into smaller pieces
Work breakdown structure (WBS) - Answers A deliverable oriented grouping of the work involved in a
project that defines the total scope of the project
Project scope statement - Answers A document that includes, at a minimum, a description of the
project, including its overall objectives and justification, detailed descriptions of all project deliverables,
and the characteristics and requirements of products and services produced as part of the project
Requirements traceability matrix (RTM) - Answers A table that list requirements, there are various
attributes, and the status of the requirements to ensure that all are addressed
