Project Management

1. Project Scope: Project scope is a way to set boundaries on your project and define exactly what goals, deadlines and project deliverables you will be working towards. By clarifying your project scope, you can ensure you hit your project goals and deliverables without delay or overwork.
2. Project Scope Document: A Project Scope document is nothing but simply a written document of Project Scope.
3. Scope Creep: Scope Creep is something what happens when project deliverables exceed the project scope. When your project scope creeps, you end up working on tasks you didn't expect at the beginning of the project. This can lead to project delays, overwork or low-quality deliverables.
4. Project Deliverables: Project deliverables are the output you expect at the end of the project. A project can have one or more deliverables.
5. Project Objectives: Project objectives are something you plan to achieve by the end of the project. This might include deliverables or assets. Project objectives are critical element of Project Management.
6. Project Objectives vs Project Goal:
1. Project Objectives - Project objectives are something you plan to achieve by the end of the project. These are basically measurable actions to achieve the overall goal.
2. Project Goal - Project goal is an achievable outcome that is generally broad and long-term 
7. Project Objectives vs Project Deliverables: 
1. Project Objectives - Project Objectives are the objectives that you want to achieve from that project. Example: Increase company security by introducing the SSO and 2-factor authentication.
2. Project Deliverables - Project Deliverables is something what you are going to deliver to customer in order to achieve the Project Objective. Example: Onboard the entire company on new SSO service.
8. Project Deliverables vs Project Milestones: 
1. Project Deliverables - Project Deliverables is something what you are going to deliver to customer in order to achieve the Project Objective.
2. Project Milestones - Project Milestones are the checkpoints you expect to hit during your project. Or you can say these are the building blocks that helps you to hit the project deliverables. 
9. Types of Project Deliverables:
1. External Deliverables - These can be anything you are developing for External clients.
2. Internal Deliverables - This can be anything you are developing that may benefit to your company but may not directly impact your customers.
10. Stakeholders: 
1. Individuals, organizations actively involved in project. (ex: Project Manager, Team, Sponsor...)
2. Individuals, organizations not actively involved in project but whose interest may affect as a completion of project. (ex: Customers, Users...)
11. Project Stakeholders: Project stakeholders are the people who can impact or may be impacted by the project you are working on. Stakeholders can be from entry level of your organization or any individual contributor or senior executives but if they are involved directly/indirectly in your project, they are important.
12. Types of Stakeholders:
1. Internal Stakeholders - Internal stakeholders may include anyone works in your organization who invested in your project.
2. External Stakeholders - External stakeholders may include anyone outside your organization. These might be customers, agencies, users, suppliers or other external contributors.
13. Requirement Types:
1. Functional Requirements - These requirements relate to the functionality of the product like capabilities, usage, features, operations. Example: Payment Processing Functionality
2. Non-Functional Requirements - Anything that not related to functionality comes under Non-Functional requirements, like - security, stability, technical specifications etc. Example: SSL Certificate
14. Primary Constraints of Project:
1. Time - The schedule for the project to reach completion
2. Cost - The budget allocated for the project to meet its objectives and complete it on time
3. Scope - The specific deliverables of the project
4. Quality - The standards of the outcome of the project
5. Risk - The risk involved for the project deliverables
6. Resources - The competency as well as the availability of resources
15. Project Management: Project management is the set of practices involving the application of knowledge, skills, processes, methods and tools to achieve specific project requirements according to the project acceptance criteria withing agreed budget and timeframe.
16. Phases of Project Management Life Cycle:
1. Project Definition
2. Project Initiation
3. Project Planning
4. Project Execution
5. Project Monitoring & Control
6. Project Closure
17. Project Management Triangle: Any impact on any of the 3 factors makes an impact on quality as well.
1. Time
2. Cost
3. Scope
18. Project Manager Competencies:
1. Technical - Domain Expertise, Technical Expertise
2. Leadership - Motivating, Guiding, Directing the members of team
3. Strategic - Industry and business understanding
19. Types of Organizational Structures: 
1. Functional - Where each employee has one defined superior (normally functional manager)
2. Projectized - Where each project resource reports to the project manager
3. Matrix - Blend of Functional & Projectized
4. Composite - Any combination of Functional, Projectized & Matrix structure
20. User Story:
1. As a <type of user>, I want <to perform some task> so that <I can achieve some goal/value/benefit>
2. Example: As a bank customer, I want to deposit cash using Cash Deposit machine so that I don't have to waste time in standing bank queue.