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• Kick Off Meeting


  A form of communication, rather than a trigger of communication
• Sprint planning meeting 


  A meeting at the beginning of the sprint where items are chosen from the product backlog and placed in the sprint backlog to be worked on during the upcoming iteration.
• Bottom up estimates are the most accurate estimates
• Bottom up estimates starts at the work package level of the work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Enhance Strategy


  Used to monitor the probability or impact of the risk event to ensure benefits are realized.
• Mitigate strategy


  Used to reduce the impact or the probability of the risk
• Smoke test


  A high level test designated to identify simple failures that could jeopardize the software program or prevent it from being released to production
• DevOps and DevSecOps combines the operations, development, an security team to deliver projects faster and encourage collaboration and communication among the team members
• Service level agreement (SLA)


  outlines the terms of use for the data, how you'll secure the data, and other terms and conditions
• A letter of intent outlines the intent or actions of both parties before entering into a contract or other mutually bonding agreement
• The project team member is responsible for time and duration estimates, cost estimates, status updates, and dependencies
• Scrum retrospective


  A form of lessons learned done with agile methodology at the end of each sprint
• Types of Change:

  • Corrective action
  • Defect repair
  • Preventative action
• Agile Manifesto


  Focuses on value to the customer and in incremental steps
• Rewards should be proportional to performance
• A request for information (RFI) is used when not enough information or expert judgement to know what a good or service will cost
• A request for quote (RFQ) includes a meeting with prospective vendors prior to completing the proposal
• A request for proposal (RFP) process includes creating the statement of work (SOW) and publishing it in the RFP, receiving bids from vendors and suppliers, evaluating the responses, and making a selection
• A request for bid (RFB) is a procurement document that details the goods and services to be purchased from outside the origination
• SOW

  Statement of work
• Pareto Diagramming 


  A tool used to focus attention on the most critical issue
• Analogous estimating 


  A technique that uses actual durations from similar tasks n previous projects. (top down)
• PRojects IN Controlled Environments (PRINCE2) divides projects into states (7 stages) and stage boundaries are performed at the end of each stage before proceeding to the next
• Terms of Reference (TOR)


  A contract that explains the objectives, scope of work, activities, tasks to be performed, and other information, such as structure of the project
• Qualitative Analysis


  Examines urgency, proximity, dormancy, controllability, detectability, interconnectivity, strategic impact an propinquity when defining probability and impact
• Physical security


  Guides all parameters regarding where and how your data is stored
• Digital security


  policies are related to access and permission to digital assets
• Fast tracking 


  A schedule acceleration technique where two tasks that are scheduled in parallel are started at the same time
• Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)


  allows the cloud consumer to provision servers, storage, networking, operating systems, and other computing resources on demand
• Platform as a service (PaaS)


  a software model that allows application developers to build applications in the cloud
• Anything as a service (XaaS)


  Any IT functions that is converted to a cloud model for use by the organization
• Software as a service (SaaS)


  a model whereby a cloud consumer can access application(s) on demand that have been developed and run on a cloud infrastructure
• Fishbone Diagram (Ishikawa diagram)


  A visualization tool for categorizing the potential causes of a problem in order to identify its root cause

  
• Process diagram


  Shows step by step how a process works, where approvals or decisions need to be made and so on.

  
• Histogram


  Displays the frequency distributions of variable data

  
• Pareto chart


  Used to rank the importance of a problem based on its frequencies of occurrence over time. Also displays chart from largest to smallest.

  
• The project organizational chart helps to clarify involvements in the project and can be used to help create a decision making matrix including who had the authority to make certain decisions
• In a RACI, only 1 person can be accountable per task
• Return on investment (ROI) 


  Used to determine if there will be a positive return on project's investment
• Environmentally sound, social responsible, and economically viable are the three factors where trade offs must be made in a similar way to the tactical triple constraints