Chapter 5 Quiz
In the ____ approach for constructing a WBS, you use a similar project's WBS as a starting point. - Bottom-up - Top-down - Mind-mapping - Analogy
Analogy
You are the project manager for a project that will develop in-house software used to monitor computer parts inventory. Your project sponsor asks that you begin working on the WBS. What is a WBS? - A breakdown of the project work activities - A topology of the projects team's responsibilities - Weekly deadlines for the project - A decomposition of the project scope
A decomposition of the project scope
True/False: Mind mapping allows people to write and even draw pictures of ideas in a nonlinear format?
True
True/False: Project scope management includes the process involved in defining and controlling what is or is not included in a project.
True
____ involves defining and documenting features and functions of the products produced during the project as well as the processes used for creating them. - Defining scope - Validating scope - Collecting requirements - Controlling scope
Collecting requirements
The main technique used in create a WBS is _____, which involves subdividing project deliverables into smaller pieces. - Decomposition - Conglomeration - Catalyzation - Accumulation
Decomposition
True/False: The tasks in a WBS must be developed as a sequential list of steps?
False
____ uses highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholders -- the sponsor, users, business analysts, programmers, and so on -- to jointly define and design information systems. - Use case modeling - JAD - Prototyping - RAD
JAD (Joint Application Design)
The ____ documents how project needs will be analyzed, documented, and managed. - Requirements management plan - WBS - Project scope statement - Requirements traceability matrix
Requirements management plan
Jane is a project manager that is working with her project team. Some of the project stakeholders have been circumventing the change control process and approaching the project team members directly. Jane wants to inform the project team that stakeholders should use the approved change control form. What is it called when the project team members completed unapproved change requests for stakeholders? - Integrated change control - Scope creep - Gold plating - Cost of quality
Scope creep.