Project Management Practitioner

Process Group    : Executing
Knowledge Area : Human Resource Management
Process             : Develop Project Team
Type                 : Tools and Techniques

Team building activities is one of the Tools and Techniques of Develop Project Team. Storming is one stage of the project team development.

After the introduction of team members, the actual action begins in this stage. Team members become confrontational with each other as they’re vying for position and control during this stage.

They’re working towards to move top.

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Process Group    : Monitoring and Controlling
Knowledge Area : Communications Management
Process             : Performance Reporting
Type                 : Tools and Techniques

The purpose of status meetings is to provide updated information about the progress of the project to all project stakeholders. They are not show-and-tell or demo or presentation meetings.

Expect heated arguements and sometimes backlashes from Sponsors, if he find out any slipages against the expected

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Process Group    : Monitoring and Controlling
Knowledge Area : Quality Management
Process             : Perform Quality Control
Type                 : Tools and Techniques

Statistical sampling as name implies is taking a sample number of parts/items from the whole population and examining them to determine if they fall within acceptable variances.

Statistical sampling also helps to determine the standard deviation.

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Process Group    : Initiating
Knowledge Area : Integration Management
Process             : Develop Project Charter
Type                 : Inputs

Statement of Work (SOW) describes the nature of final delivarables such as product or service the project was undertaken to deliver. Usually this document will be written by the project sponsor or the project requestor.

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Starvation is one type of project endings as described by PMBOK 3.

Sometime resources are cut off from the project activities or are no longer provided to the project and brings down the curtain to trigger the project ending.

Starvation can happen for any reasons such as

1. Other projects takes precedence/importantance over the current project and divert the funds or resources from the current project.
2. The customer curtails an order.
3. The project budget is reduced.
4. A key resource quits.

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Process Group    : Planning
Knowledge Area : Time Management
Process             : Activity Sequencing
Type                 : Tools and Techniques

Precedence diagramming method (PDM) is one of the Tools and techniques of the Activity Sequencing and Start-to-Finish (SF) is part of it.

In this relationship the independent/preceding activity must start before the dependent/succeding activity can finish.

This relationship is used very rarely.

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Process Group    : Controling
Knowledge Area : Quality Management
Process              : Quality Control
Type                   : Tools and Techniques

Inspection involves physically looking at, measuring, or testing results to determine if they conform to the requirements or quality standards.

It’s a tool used to gather information and improve results. Inspections might occur after the final product is produced or at intervals during the development of the product to examine individual components.

Inspection may take actual measurements of components to determine if they meet requirements.

Inspection keeps errors in the product from reaching the customer whereas prevention keeps errors from occurring in the process.

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Process Group    : Planning
Knowledge Area  : Risk Management
Process               : Risk Planning
Type                    : Tools and Techniques

One of the tool and technique and diagramming technique to identify risk.

Influence diagrams typically show the casual influences among project variables, the timing or time ordering of events, and the relationships among other project variables and their outcomes.

They will visually depict risks (or decisions), uncertainties or impacts, and how they influence each other.

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Dependencies are defined by the project management team. Discretionary dependencies are usually process or procedure driven.

They are also known as preferred  logic, soft logic, and preferential logic.

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SMART goals are one of the methods used to define the project objectives. These rules/guidance’s will provided how the objectives should be defined.

The SMART rule is as follows

S—Specific.       Objectives should be specific and written in clear, concise, and understandable terms.
M—Measurable. Objectives should be measurable.
A—Accurate.     Objectives should be accurate and should describe precisely what’s required.
R—Realistic and tangible. Objectives that are impossible to accomplish are not realistic and not attainable. Objectives must be centered in reality.
T—Time bound. Objectives should have a time frame with an end date assigned to them.

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