PMP notes

This is my personal notes on my way to be certified or not.

I try to un-confuse myself with all this terms;

1. Project scope statements, project statement
2. Traceability matrix - The requirements traceability matrix ties requirements to project objectives, business needs, WBS deliverables, product design, test strategies, and high-level requirements and traces them through to project completion.

3. project scope baseline? - The WBS, approved project scope statement, and WBS dictionary

4. statements is true regarding brainstorming and lateral thinking - alternatives identification techniques, which are a tool and technique of the Define Scope process.

5. You are ready to create the WBS. All of the following are true

• The WBS can be structured using each product as a level-one entry.
• The WBS should be elaborated to a level where costs and schedule are easily estimated. This is known as the work package level.
• Each level of the WBS represents verifiable products or results.

6. poor job of defining the scope, the project costs could increase, there might be rework, and schedule delays might result.

7. Each element in the WBS is assigned a unique identifier. These are collectively known as the code of accounts . Typically, these codes are associated with a corporate chart of accounts and are used to track the costs of the individual work elements in the WBS.

8. The work package level is the lowest level in the WBS and facilitates resource assignment and cost and time estimates.

9. Building a work breakdown structure - must read beb