Monday, March 30, 2020

PMO Cheat Sheet

PMO Cheat Sheet

Q1) Where Process and Procedures that seems to conflict against the goals of the project, what can be used to determine if they are in the best interests of the project goals?
Answer) Principles

Q2) What are 'Unknown-Unknown' in Risk management?
Answer) Risks that have not been identified & will never identified until the risk has been triggered

Q3) Which PMO document is used to understand stakeholder communication requirements?
Answer) PMO Communication Management Plan

Q4) Which PMO Role is best suited to manage organizational Process Assets?
Answer) PMO Director

Q5) Where is Project or Program Control Center?
Answer) Is where the core project or program team works

Q6) The complete history of product is known as
Answer) Product Lifecycle

Q7) Which of the following is an advantage of projectized Organization?
Answer) Clear Authority

Q8) Which of the following options best describe how governance is applied once PMO governance is defined?
Answer) is continually optimized through improvement process

Q9) What term is used for the approved value of the workto be compelted in a given time?
Answer) Planned Value

Q10) Which of the options is not type of PMO according to PMI?
Answer) Informed

Q11) What is not an Organizational Structure?
Answer) Transparent

Q12) Reference to Agile PMOs is more asoiciated with
Answer)

Q13) Doing the 'right projects' is referring to
Answer) Portfolio management

Q14) The manager responsible for the work of a business function, business line or organization unit is known as:
Answer) Functional Manager

Q15) Governance Principles
Answer) Provide norms, rules and values for setting up a framework to steer management

Q16) A program is:
Answer) Set of related projects and/or sub-programs, and operations that, when managed in a coordinated way, will meet a common business objective.

Q15) A deliverable is a
Answer) Tangible and verifiable item that must be produced to complete the project.

Q16) Stakeholders should be identified and documented in:
Answer) Stakeholders register

Q17) PMO capabilities are NOT built from:
Answer) KPIs

Q18) Including within project decisions all the costs required to develop and operate the product is known as:
Answer) Life cycle costing

Q19) PMO Slack (spare time) should be used for:
Answer) Resources (time) for Knowledge management, innovation and partnering

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA) Based on BABOK® Guide

Module 1 – Introduction to ECBA®

Who is a Business Analyst

  • Catalyst for change
  • Independent assessor
  • Overcome internal inertia against change
  • Create positive attitude of collaboration
  • Self-confident engineer of change
  • Creative problem solver
  • Excellent communicator
BABOK Guide Six Knowledge Areas:

Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring: 
Tasks used to organize and coordinate business analysis efforts. 

Elicitation and Collaboration: 
Tasks used to prepare for and conduct elicitation activities and confirm the results. 

Requirements Life Cycle Management: 
Tasks used to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement. 

Strategy Analysis: 
Tasks used to identify the business need, address that need, and align the change strategy within the enterprise. 

Requirements Analysis and Design Definition: 
Tasks used to organize requirements, specify and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solution options, and estimate the potential value that could be realized. 

Solution Evaluation: 
Tasks used to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution and to recommend improvements on increasing values.   

Business Analyst Competencies
  • Analytical thinking
  • Behavioral characteristics
  • Business knowledge
  • Communication skills
  • Interaction skills
  • Software applications
  • Business intelligence
  • Business process management
  • Decision analysis
  • Enterprise architecture
  • Compliance issues management
  • Quality control
  • Organizational change management
  • Project management
  • Software improvements
  • Strategic planning
Business Analyst Activities
  • Understanding enterprise problems and goals,
  • Analyzing needs and solutions,
  • Devising strategies,
  • Driving change, and
  • Facilitating stakeholder collaboration.

Knowledge Areas Relationships 

Perspectives:  
  • Agile 
  • Business Intelligence  
  • Information Technology 
  • Business Architecture  
  • Business Process Management

BACCM Framework
Business Analysis Core Concept Model (BACCM) framework for business analysis:

  • Change
  • Need
  • Solution
  • Value
  • Stakeholder
  • Context

Software Testing and STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle)

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