Chapter 5: Practice

The ____ level of a WBS represents the entire project and is the top level. - 0 - 2 - 1 - 3

0

The ____ level of a WBS represents the major products or phases of the project. - 3 - 2 - 1 - 0

1

A project team always organizes the WBS around project products. - True - False

False

A work package should always represent less than 80 hours of work. - False - True

False

The format of WBS dictionaries should remain constant from project to project so that they will be easy to compare. - True - False

False

The project scope statement provides the basis for planning and managing project schedules, costs, resources, and changes. - True - False

False

The project scope statement should provide basic scope information, and the preliminary project scope statement should continue to clarify and provide information that is more specific. - True - False

False

A unit of work should appear at only one place in the WBS. - False - True

True

A work package represents the lowest level of work that the project manager is using to monitor and control the project. - True - False

True

If you want some time-based flow for the work, you can create a WBS using the project management process groups of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing as level 1 in the WBS. - True - False

True

Information from the project charter provides a basis for making scope management decisions. - True - False

True

Lack of user input leads to problems with managing scope creep and controlling change. - False - True

True

Many organizations provide guidelines and templates for developing WBSs. - False - True

True

Mind mapping allows people to write and even draw pictures of ideas in a nonlinear format. - True - False

True

Organizations often hire experts from outside companies to evaluate and recommend off-the-shelf software and then assist in managing the purchase and installation of the new software. - True - False

True

Project scope management includes the processes involved in defining and controlling what is or is not included in a project. - True - False

True

The project scope statement and project management plan are the primary input for creating a WBS. - True - False

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. - True - False

True

In the ____, you use a similar project's WBS as a starting point. - mind-mapping approach - bottom-up approach - analogy approach - top-down approach

analogy approach

In the ____________________ approach, team members first identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible.

bottom-up

Project managers often use the ____ approach for projects that represent entirely new systems or approaches to doing a job, or to help create buy-in and synergy with a project team. - bottom-up - analogy - top-down - mind mapping

bottom-up

If ____________________ for developing a WBS exist, it is very important to follow them.

guidelines

Key inputs of the scope management plan include the ____________________, preliminary scope statement, and project management plan.

project charter

Factors such as user involvement, clear business objectives, a minimized or clearly defined scope, and firm basic requirements, are elements of ____________________.

project scope management

It is helpful to document project success criteria in the ____. - scope management plan - WBS - project scope statement - decomposition

project scope statement

The main output of scope definition is the ____________________.

project scope statement

The approved project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary form the ____________________.

scope baseline

The goal of ____ is to influence the factors that cause scope changes, assure changes are processed according to procedures developed as part of integrated change control, and manage changes when they occur. - scope control - scope definition - scope verification - scope planning

scope control

Good ____ is very important to project success because it helps improve the accuracy of time, cost, and resource estimates, it defines a baseline for performance measurement and project control, and it aides in communicating clear work responsibilities. - scope verification - scope planning - scope definition - scope management

scope definition

The main output of the scope planning process is a project ____________________.

scope management plan

The ____ should list and describe all of the deliverables required for the project. - WBS - Gantt chart - project charter - scope statement

scope statement

A WBS can also be shown in ____________________ form as an indented list of tasks that shows the same groupings of the work.

tabular

____ 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. - RAD - Use case modeling - JAD - Prototyping

JAD

____________________ can be used for developing WBSs using the top-down or bottom-up approach.

Mind mapping

____________________ involves controlling changes to the project scope.

Scope control

A(n) ____________________ is a task at the lowest level of the WBS.

work package

A WBS is often depicted as a task-oriented pie chart. - True - False

False

A project WBS should be based on a single approach. - True - False

False

Deliverables are only product-related, such as a piece of hardware or software. - False - True

False

It is easy to create a good WBS. - False - True

False

The project's size, complexity, importance, and other factors will not affect how much effort is spent on scope planning. - True - False

False

____________________ is a technique that uses branches radiating out from a core idea to structure thoughts and ideas.

Mind mapping

____________________ is the tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger and bigger.

Scope creep

____ involves reviewing the project charter and preliminary scope statement created during the initiation process and adding more information during the planning process as requirements are developed and change requests are approved. - Scope definition - Scope control - Scope verification - Scope planning

Scope definition

____ involves deciding how the scope will be defined, verified, and controlled and how the WBS will be created. - Scope verification - Scope definition - Scope planning - Scope control

Scope planning

____ involves formal acceptance of the completed project scope by the stakeholders. - Scope planning - Scope control - Scope verification - Scope definition

Scope verification

____ involves formalizing acceptance of the project scope. Key project stakeholders, such as the customer and sponsor for the project, inspect and then formally accept the deliverables of the project during this process. - Scope definition - Scope planning - Scope verification - Scope control

Scope verification

The tasks in a WBS do not have to be developed as a sequential list of steps. - False - True

True

You can only enter duration estimates for work packages. - True - False

True

____ is a process for identifying and modeling business events, who initiated them, and how the system should respond to them. - RAD - JAD - Use case modeling - Prototyping

Use case modeling

____________________ is the difference between planned and actual performance.

Variance

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

WBS dictionary

Some project management experts believe that work should not be done on a project if it is not included in the ____________________.

WBS or Work Breakdown Structure

Creating the ____________________ involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components.

Work Breakdown Structure or WBS

The term ____ describes a product produced as part of a project. - end-product - scope - outcome - deliverable

deliverable

The ____ tasks vary the most from project to project. - monitoring and controlling - closing - planning - executing

executing

There are ____ main processes involved in project scope management. - three - four - six - five

five

The main tool for performing scope verification is ____________________.

inspection

After discovering WBS items and structure using the ____ approach, you could then translate the information into chart or tabular form. - top-down - bottom-up - mind mapping - analogy

mind mapping

Of the following, it is much more difficult to describe, agree upon, and meet the ____ goal of many projects. - time - technical - cost - scope

scope

The preliminary ____________________, as well as the project charter, organizational process assets, and approved change requests provide a basis for creating the project scope statement.

scope statement

The main outputs of ____ are accepted deliverables, requested changes, and recommended corrective actions. - scope verification - scope control - scope planning - scope definition

scope verification

The ____ approach involves refining the work into greater and greater levels of detail. - bottom-up - top-down - analogy - mind mapping

top-down

The ____ approach is best suited to project managers who have vast technical insight and a big-picture perspective. - bottom-up - top-down - analogy - mind mapping

top-down

A(n) ____________________ project scope statement is an important document for developing and confirming a common understanding of the project scope.

up-to-date

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 - project scope statement - business case - project charter

work breakdown structure