Foundations of Project Management: Weekly Challenge 2

As a project manager, you give your team members opportunities to work directly with stakeholders and their teams. In doing this, you are utilizing interpersonal skills to fulfill what responsibility?

- Communicating status and concerns - Empowering your team (Correct) - Teaching and mentoring - Controlling change

As a project manager, you are transparent, which means being upfront with plans and ideas and making information readily available what project management value does this represent?

- Effective communication (Correct) - Prioritization - Delegation - Optimism

A project manager for kids to assess how national holidays and team members vacation to affect a Projects completion date. Now because of the team members time off the project delivery will be two weeks late. What flexible planning strategy could the project manager how do used to avoid the delay?

- Enable decision-making - Use collaboration tools - Assess external constraints (Correct) - Escalate to stakeholders

As a project manager building a relationship with your customer, which of the following will help you focus on the customer? Select all that apply.

- Have you participated in any other projects with our organization? - How did you hear of our organization? - What is your hope for the outcome of this project? (Correct) - What prompted you to ask for help at this time (Correct)

As a project manager, you choose the best project management methodology for your team, and ensure that here to it throughout the project. What project management responsibility does this represent?

- Help teammates adopt the right workflows and project management styles. (Correct) - Hold all team members accountable for their assigned tasks. - Ensure that issues and risks are tracked and visible. - Collaborate with other teams at the organization.

You're a project manager on a team that is improving a product. When inspecting the product, he discover a defect what action can you take that will simultaneously communicate and escalate the newly found problem?

- Implement more functional tools so the issue doesn't occur again. - Have a meeting with stakeholders to make them aware of the product problem. (Correct) - Track daily product improvement tasks of team members in a spreadsheet. - Ask team members about how customers interact with the product.

Two of your team members cannot agree on who should have to work an extra shift on the weekend to complete a task that they share responsibility for. You call a meeting with them to determine if a solution can be agreed-upon. Which interpersonal skill are you using?

- Positive attitude - Negotiation - Understanding motivations - Conflict mediation (Correct)

When budgeting a project, what is the responsibility of a project manager?

- Setting a period for a team member to complete an activity. - Controlling costs to ensure more money isn't spent than what key stakeholders approved. (Correct) - Using a productivity tool to share information across the team. - Creating a schedule so team members know when their task should be complete.

Sofia is a project manager for the implementation of a new call-center software program. which of the following is necessary for Sofia to be an effective project manager?

- Sofia must have been recognized by leadership as a top performer. - Sofia knows how to create a project plan, manage the various members of her team, and identify risks. (Correct) - Sofia must have a college degree in software engineering. - Sofia must have worked at a large customer service call center.

As a project manager impacting an organization, you want to build a great team, which of the following would a project manager do to build a great team? Select all that apply.

- Take the time to understand each team member's motivations, strengths, and weaknesses. (Correct) - Address the team's needs whenever it's most convenient for the project manager's schedule. - Allow the team members to have input and ask questions. (Correct) - Understand the customer's requirements to better shape the skills needed for the team. (Correct)

An effective manager of cross functional teams must have which of the following abilities? select all that apply.

- The ability to set up effective tools so the team can easily work together - The ability to teach new skills to a T-shaped professional. - The ability to ensure that each member of the team understands their role and how they support each other (Correct) - The ability to identify skill sets needed to accomplish project tasks and T-shaped professionals with those skills (Correct)