IS 3010 - Mid-Term short answer

What is the critical path on a project?

A series of activities that can determine the earliest time the project can be completed

The _____ is a tabulation of activities to be included on a project schedule.

Activity list

In Scrum, a(n) _____ is a useful object created by people.

Artifiact

A(n) _____ is a strategic planning and management system that helps organizations align business activities to strategy, improve communications, and monitor performance against strategic goals.

Balanced scorecard

A _____ is a starting point, a measurement, or an observation that is documented so that it can be used for future comparison. changes.

Baseline

What project management certifications can students earn without work experience

CAPM

Subdividing the project deliverables into smaller pieces is known as _____.

Decomposition

Which step in project time management sounds like it belongs under scope management?

Defining activities

_____ is the number of workdays or work hours required to complete a task.

Effort

In which process group should you spend the most time and money?

Executing

What is the most common type of task dependency?

Finish-to-start dependency

Three general classifications of organizational structures are _____, project, and matrix.

Functional

Some organizations prescribe the form and content for WBSs for particular projects. These are known as _____.

Guidelines

_________ issues often occur during project execution, especially conflicts.

Human resource

A major element of good practice concerns _____, which addresses the authority and control for key IT activities in organizations, including IT infrastructure, IT use, and project management.

IT Governance

_____ involves identifying and managing the points of interaction between various elements of the project.

Interface management

Modern project management began with what project?

Manhattan Project

What type of organizational structure gives the least amount of authority to project managers?

Matrix

What type of organizational structure has project team members reporting to at least two bosses

Matrix

Name two characteristics of organizational culture that help project management.

Member Identity, and Group emphasis

A(n) _____ describes how things should be done.

Methedology

The ideal outcome of the _____ process group is to complete a project successfully by delivering the agreed-upon project scope within time, cost, and quality constraints.

Monitoring and controlling

A(n) _____ is a schematic display of the logical relationships among project activities and their sequencing.

Network Diagram

Ethics is a set of principles that guides decision making based on _____ of what is considered right and wrong

Personal values

Which project management process group(s) includes activities from every single knowledge area?

Planning

_____ refer to undesirable situations that prevent an organization from achieving its goals.

Problems

A(n) _____ is the person responsible for the business value of the project and for deciding what work to do and in what order when using a Scrum method

Product owner

A(n) _____ is "a group of related projects, subsidiary programs, and program activities managed in a coordinated manner to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually."

Program

What is PERT?

Program evaluation and review technique

Name two tools and techniques that are unique to project management.

Project chater, scope statement, wbs scope, gantt charts, network diagrams, and critical path analysis

_____ involves coordinating all of the other project management knowledge areas throughout a project's life cycle.

Project integration management

What is the designation for people certified as project managers by the Project Management Institute?

Project management professional PMP

_____ includes the processes involved in defining and controlling what work is or is not included in a project.

Project scope management

What three knowledge areas comprise the triple constraint of project management?

Project scope, time, and cost

What are the phases of the traditional project life cycle?

Requirement Analysis, system design, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance.

Name one document that is a key input of a project scope statement.

Requirements management plan

A(n) _____ involves analyzing a company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and is used to aid in strategic planning.

SWOT analysis

Project _____ management includes estimating how long it will take to complete the work, developing an acceptable project schedule, and ensuring timely completion of a project.

Schedule

What are the seven main processes of integration management?

Scope, time, cost, quality, communication, risk, procurement

A(n) _____ is a set period of time, normally two to four weeks, during which specific work must be completed and made ready for review when using Scrum methods.

Sprint

_____ involves determining long-term objectives by analyzing the strengths and weaknesses, studying opportunities and threats, predicting future trends, and projecting the need for new products and services.

Strategic planning

When using project management software, estimates of work time should be entered only at the work package level; the rest of the WBS items are just groupings or _____ tasks.

Summary

_____ are sets of interacting components working within an environment to fulfill some purpose.

Systems

_____ addresses the business, technological, and organizational issues associated with creating, maintaining, and modifying a system.

Systems analysis

A hierarchy is used to show the levels of _____ in the WBS.

Task

The three spheres of systems management are business, organization, and _____.

Technology

What is the main purpose of a project management plan?

That everyone can use and be involved in the project to help communicate information and processes

What document describes detailed information about each WBS item?

The WBS dictionary

Some of the adaptive approaches to developing systems are becoming more popular. Are they better or more appropriate than prescriptive approaches in most cases? Why or why not?

The adaptive approach seems to be better for smaller projects or IT projects, while the traditional approach would be more effective for larger projects.

What approach to creating a WBS allows people to use a less structured, non-linear format?

The mind mapping approach

In a project schedule, the variable that has the least amount of flexibility is _____.

Time

A(n) _____ Gantt chart compares planned and actual project schedule information.

Tracking

In project management, the three limitations of scope, time, and cost are referred to as the _____.

Triple Constraint

A(n) _____ is a document that describes detailed information about each WBS item.

WBS dictionary

Name one of the unique outputs of planning used in Scrum.

Work for each day in the daily scrum and a list of stumbling blocks.

_____ refer to chances to improve the organization.

opportunities

Soft skills are also known as _____ skills.

people

_____ refer to "conditions or capabilities that must be met by the project or present in the product, service, or result to satisfy an agreement or other formally imposed specification."

requirements

_____ are people involved in or affected by project activities and include the project sponsor, project team, support staff, customers, users, suppliers, and even opponents to the project.

stakeholders