Strategy is delivered through - ✔✔-Projects
A sequence of related tasks that focuses on an established objective. -
✔✔-Project
Products, processes and services - ✔✔-Projects Deliver
The outcome of a project. May be a final deliverable or an intermediate
deliverable. - ✔✔-Deliverable
Two ways to approach managing a project - ✔✔-Predictive and
Adaptive
You know where you want to go and know how to get there. Example is a
project to construct a new facility for a fast food chain. -
✔✔-Predictive approach
You may know where you want to go but don't know exactly how to get
there. Example would be the design of a new running shoe. -
✔✔-Adaptive approach
Knowing in advance the steps necessary to undertake and complete a
project. Associated with Waterfall approach - ✔✔-Assumption of
certainty
Most common predictive approach - ✔✔-Waterfall
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Five process groups defined by the Project Management Institute. -
✔✔-Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, Closing
Commonly used Agile approach - ✔✔-Scrum
Rapid Development of project outcome
Listening to the voice-of-the-customer
Ability to resolve problems
Dealing with complexity
Uncovering, managing and mitigating project uncertainty - ✔✔-Five
challenges addressed by Scrum
Adaptive
Incremental - ✔✔-Goals of Agile
Percent of Agile projects that are successful. - ✔✔-42
Percent of Waterfall projects that are successful - ✔✔-26
The document that formally authorizes a Waterfall project. -
✔✔-Project Charter
Business Case, Requirements, WBS, Schedule and Risk Assessment -
✔✔-Contents of a project charter
Displays project schedule - ✔✔-Gantt Chart
Where in the project management process does the Waterfall
approach engage the customer? - ✔✔-Start and end