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analogy approach
creating a WBS by using a similar project's WBS as a starting point TERM 2
bottom-up approach
DEFINITION 2 creating a WBS by having a team members identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible and then grouping them into higher level categories. TERM 3
decomposition
DEFINITION 3 subdividing project deliverables into smaller pieces TERM 4
deliverable
DEFINITION 4 a product, such as a report or segment of software code, produced as part of a project TERM 5
Joint Application Design
DEFINITION 5 using highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholders - the sponsor, users, business analysis, programmers, and so on - to jointly define and design information systems
project scope management
the processes involved in defining and controlling what work is or is not included in a project TERM 7
project scope statement
DEFINITION 7 a document that includes, at a minimum, a description of the project, including its overall objectives and justification, detailed descriptions of all project deliverables, and the characteristics and requirements of products and services products as part of the project. TERM 8
prototyping
DEFINITION 8 developing a working replica of the system or some aspect of the system to help define user requirements TERM 9
requirement
DEFINITION 9 a condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system, product, service, result , or component to satisfy a contract, standard, specification, or other formal document TERM 10
requirements management plan
DEFINITION 10 a plan that describes how project requirements will be analyzed, documented, and managed
use case modeling
a process for identifying and modeling business events, who initiated them, and how the system should respond to them. TERM 17
variance
DEFINITION 17 the difference between planned and actual performance TERM 18
WBS dictionary
DEFINITION 18 a document that describes detailed information about each WBS item TERM 19
work breakdown structure
DEFINITION 19 a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project TERM 20
work package
DEFINITION 20 a task at the lowest level of the WBS
