Project Management
____ Involves defining and documenting the features and functions of the products produced during the project as well as the processes used for creating them
Collecting requirements
In project time management, the process of____ primarily involves checking and managing changes to the project schedule
Controlling the schedule
____ involves reviewing the project charter, requirements documents, and organizational process assets to create a scope statement, adding more information as requirements are developed and change requests are approved
Creating scope
The scope of a project is clear and specific from the start (T/F)
False
The tasks in a WBS must be developed as a sequential list of steps. (T/F)
False
Creating the WBS is a subprocess associated with the _____ process in project scope management.
Planning
The first process involved in project time management is _____.
Planning schedule management
A dependency pertains to the sequencing of project activities or tasks (T/F)
True
A schedule management plan includes information which describes the format and frequency of schedule reports required for the project (T/F)
True
An activity is an element of work that has an expected duration, cost, and resource requirements (T/F)
True
In project time management, a(n) ____ is an output of controlling the schedule
activity attribute
Generating ideas by comparing specific project practices or product characteristics to those of other projects or products inside or outside the performing organization is known as _____.
benchmarking
Which of the following is a difference between an activity list and an activity attribute?
An activity attribute provides more schedule-related information about each activity than an activity list
Which of the following processes in project time management involves identifying the specific tasks that the project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce the project deliverables
Defining activities
The term ____ describes a product produced as part of a project.
Deliverable
In project time management, which of the following processes involve analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule?
Developing the schedule
In project time management, which of the following processes involve calculating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activities?
Estimating activity durations
A work package represents one component of the product that the project aims to deliver. (T/F)
False
After defining project activities, the next step in project time management is developing the schedule. (T/F)
False
Deliverables are only product-related, such as a piece of hardware or software. (T/F)
False
Given the project management software that is available, it is relatively easy to create a good WBS (T/F)
False
In project time management, the next step after sequencing activities is to define these activities (T/F)
False
In project time management, the primary output of defining activities is a schedule management plan (T/F)
False
Milestones are easy to achieve and are always achieved through one main activity (T/F)
False
Project scope statements must include the project boundaries, constraints, and assumptions (T/F)
False
Project scope statements must include the project boundaries, constraints, and assumptions. (T/F)
False
The WBS is organized solely around project phases (T/F)
False
The executing tasks of the WBS remain constant from project to project. (T/F)
False
The project's size, complexity, importance, and other factors do not affect how much effort is spent on collecting requirements for scope planning. (T/F)
False
The projects size, complexity, importance, and other factors do not affect how much effort is spent on collecting requirements for scope planning. (T/F)
False
The scope baseline in a WBS consists of the requirements documentation and enterprise environmental factors (T/F)
False
Which of the following documents is mostly likely to include planned project start and end dates which serve as the starting points for a detailed schedule?
Milestones List
The ____ documents how project needs will be analyzed, documenting, and managed.
Requirements management plan
A(n) ____ is a table that lists requirements, their various attributes, and the status of the requirements to ensure that all are addressed.
Requirements traceability matrix
In project time management, which of the following processes generate the main outputs of an activity list, activity attributes, and a milestone list?
Sequencing activities
In project time management, which of the following processes primarily involve identifying and documenting the relationships between project activities?
Sequencing activities
Information from the project charter provides a basis for further defining the project scope (T/F)
True
Information from the project charter provides a basis for further defining the project scope. (T/F)
True
It is important for the activity list and activity attributes to be in agreement with the work breakdown structure (T/F)
True
Many IT projects also require detailed functional and design specification for developing software, which also should be references in the detailed scope statement (T/F)
True
Many IT projects also require detailed functional and design specifications for developing software, which also should be referenced in the detailed scope statement (T/F)
True
Many organizations provide different guidelines and templates for developing WBSs (T/F)
True
Mind mapping allows people to write and even draw pictures of ideas in a nonlinear format. (T/F)
True
Project schedules grow out of basic documents such as the project charter (T/F)
True
Project scope management includes the processes involved in defining and controlling what is or is not included in a project (T/F)
True
Project scope management includes the processes involved in defining and controlling what is or is not included in a project. (T/F)
True
Scope refers to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the processes used to create them. (T/F)
True
The project scope statement should reference supporting documents, such as product specifications that will affect what products are produced or purchased, or corporate policies, which might affect how products or services are produced. (T/F)
True
The project scope statement, stakeholders requirements documentation, and organizational process assets are the primary inputs for creating a WBS (T/F)
True
The scope management plan can be informal and broad or formal and detailed (T/F)
True
To define activities, the project team should start with reviewing the schedule management plan, scope base, enterprise environmental factors, and organizational processes (T/F)
True
____ involves formalizing acceptance of the project deliverables and during this phase the key project stakeholders, such as the customer and sponsor for the project, inspect, and then formally accept the deliverbales
Validating scope
A(n) ____ is a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project.
Work breakdown structure
Scope refers to:
the work involved in creating the products and the processes used to create them.
