Other Terms

You must know the definitions of all these terms for exam purposes, sometimes the terms appear in the multiple choices for a question so it’s necessary to know the definitions in order to apply the process of elimination to find the right answer. 

Validate Scope:  remember that it’s the process of obtaining formal acceptance of the deliverables. 

Control Account:  it’s at a higher level on the WBS than the work package, like the departmental level. 

Rolling Wave Planning:  when it’s difficult to plan everything during the first pass, it is better to plan at a high level and go to the detail level later in the project when sufficient info is available. 

Scope Creep:  when the project scope is not controlled and the key stakeholders keep adding scope to the project and the PM doesn’t resist. This is not an acceptable practice. The PM must be firm in insisting that the Change Control process be followed. 

Gold Plating (you will see this in the Quality Chapter but it’s related to Scope due to the term ‘scope creep’): when the project team tries to add extra value in the spirit of ‘exceeding customer expectations’, it’s called Gold Plating and it’s a practice that’s highly discouraged by similar to Scope Creep. 

Read the following terms in Rita’s book – Autocratic Decision Making, Multicriteria Decision Analysis, and Voting (Unanimity, Majority, and Plurality)

Must know all the terms above for exam purposes, sometimes the terms appear in the multiple choices for a question so it’s necessary to know the definitions to apply the process of elimination

Optional terms – Joint Application Design/Development (JAD), Quality Function Deployment (QFD), 100 Percent Rule, Planning Package, and the Delphi Technique