2.11. Key Terms
Key Terms
- Action item meetings are short meetings to develop a common understanding of what the short-term priorities are for the project, individual roles, and expectations for specific activities.
- Cross-functional teams address issues and work processes that include two or more of the functional teams.
- Functional Requirements: Describe the characteristics of the final deliverable in ordinary non-technical language. Functional requirements are what you want the deliverable to do.
- Functional team refers to the team approach related to the project functions.
- Leadership meetings are used by the project manager to reflect on the project, explore the larger issues of the project, and back away from the day-to-day problem-solving.
- Management meetings are longer and are focused on planning.
- Non-Functional Requirements: Specify criteria that can be used to judge the final product or service that your project delivers.
- Problem-solving teams are assigned to address specific issues that arise during the life of the project.
- Project Charter: A statement of the scope, objectives, and participants in a project.
- Project culture represents the shared norms, beliefs, values, and assumptions of the project team.
- Project Management: Has a dual nature; it is both a series of distinct phases with a clear beginning and end and a continuous, circular process in which each end leads to a new beginning.
- Project Scope Planning: The overall goal of a project.
- Scope Creep: Change in the scope of a project that goes unmanaged. Is common in projects that have lots of stakeholders with differing goals.
- Scope Evolution: Refers to changes that all stakeholders agree on, and that are accompanied by corresponding changes in budget and schedule. Scope evolution is a natural result of the kind of learning that goes on as a project unfolds.
- Scope Statement: The document that defines the project’s scope, is generally developed during the initiation phase.
- SMART: An acronym for Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic, and Time-Related. This acronym is typically used to describe criteria for setting attainable goals in a project.
- Weighted decision matrix: An array that weighs certain options against criteria set forth by the group making a decision. Each criteria has a different value when compared to other criteria in the decision-making process.
“4.8. Key Terms” from Essentials of Project Management by Adam Farag is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. Modifications: Changes were made to the definitions for functional requirements, project charter, project scope, scope statement, SMART, and weighted decision matrix. Added terms for scope creep, action item meetings, management meetings, leadership meetings, functional teams, cross-functional teams, and problem-solving teasm.
