Project Management Chapter 1

What situation described would NOT lead to the creation of a new project?

Operating the assembly line in a factory on a day-to-day basis

To be effective, a project manager needs to possess all of the following competencies except ____.

authority—power or right granted by the organization

Quality management

Processes to incorporate the organizations quality policy regarding planning, managing, and controlling quality requirements to meet stakeholder expectations

Schedule management

Processes to manage timely completion of the project

Procurement management

Processes to purchase or acquire products, services, or results from outside the project team

The series of phases that a project goes through from its initiation to its closure are referred to as the ____________.

Project life cycle

What does NOT describe project work?

Project managers have all of the power and authority for getting the project done.

These individuals are department or division heads who determine how the work of the project is to be accomplished, and negotiate with the project manager regarding which workers are assigned to the project.

Functional Managers

What are the five Project Management Process groups defined by the Project Management Institute in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge® (PMBOK)®?

initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, closing

In Adaptive Life Cycles (change-driven or agile methods) ___.

the time and cost are fixed, but the scope is developed iteratively

Resources management

Processes to identify, acquire, and manage resources needed to successfully complete the project

Deliverable

Any unique and verifiable product, result, or capability to perform a service that is produced to complete a process, phase, or project

Project charter

A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities

Project management office (pmo)

A management structure that standardize the project related governance processes and facilities the sharing of resources methodologies tools and techniques

scrum master

A person who ensures that the team is productive, facilitates the daily Scrum, enables close cooperation across all roles and functions, and removes barriers that prevent the team from being effective

Sponsor

A senior manager serving in a formal role given authority and responsibility for successful completion of a project team strategic to an organization's success

Project lifecycle

A series of phases that a project goes through from its initiation to its closure

Project management emerged as a formal discipline to be studied and practiced in the 1950s and 1960s, primarily in which types of projects / industries?

Aerospace and construction

Product scope

All the characteristics that must be present in the actual project deliverables

Close project or phase

All the work needed to formally close a project or phase

Project Schedule

An output of a schedule model instance that presents the time-based information required by the communication plan, including activities with plan dates, directions, milestone dates, and resource allocation

stakeholders

people and groups who can impact the project or might be impacted by either the work or results of the project

Initiating process

Define a project or a new phase by obtaining authorization

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables

Quality

Characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs

Executing processes

Complete the work define to satisfy project specifications

In order to be successful, the project team must be able to assess the needs of stakeholders and manage their expectations through effective communications. At the same time they must balance competing demands among project scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, and resources, which are also known as project _____?

Constraints

Closing processes

Formally complete or close project or phase

Scope

Formally complete or close project or phase

Customer

Ensure that a good contractor for external projects or project manager for Enduro projects is selected, make sure requirements are clear, and maintain communications throughout the project

Planning processes

Establish the project scope, refine objectives, and define plans and actions to attain objectives

Communications Management, one of the ten PMBOK Guide Knowledge Areas, entails the processes to identify the people, groups, or organizations, that could impact or be impacted by the project, analyze their expectations and impact, and develop strategies for engaging them in project decisions and execution.

F

Generally, the pace of work and amount of money spent remains consistent from one life cycle stage to another.

F

In agile projects, the customer representative role is passive, and their involvement is typically limited to the early stages of the project.

F

The Project Management Office (PMO) is comprised of the top leader in the organization (CEO or other officer) and his or her direct reports.

F

The only critical measures of project success are completing the project on schedule and on budget.

F

Project management process group

Illogical grouping of the project management processes to achieve specific project objectives

Scope management

Process is to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully

Communications management

Process to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, monitoring, and ultimate disposition of project information

Integration management

Processes and activities to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities

Cost management

Processes involved in planning, estimating, budgeting, financing, funding, managing, and controlling costs for the project can be completed within the approved budget

Risk management

Processes of conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis, response planning, response implementation, and monitoring risk on a project

Stakeholder management

Processes to identify the people, groups, or organizations that could impact or be impacted by the project, analyze their expectations and impact, and develop strategies for engaging them in project decisions and execution

Hard skills

Risk analysis, quality control, scheduling, budgeting, change control, planning and other related activities, and project execution

Which of the ten Knowledge Areas in the PMBOK® is defined as the "processes to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully?"

Scope Management

Which PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Area includes those processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully?

Scope management

Project team

Select a group of individuals with complementary skills and disciplines were required to work together on interdependent and interrelated tasks for a predetermined period to meet a specific purpose or goal

Functional manager

Someone with management authority over an organizational unit

A project is a time-bound effort constrained by performance specifications, resources, and budget to create a unique product or service.

T

A project manager needs to be concerned with achieving desired scope and quality (often called performance), subject to constraints of time and cost.

T

Many different project life cycle models are used for different types of projects, such as information systems, improvement, research and development, and construction.

T

Operations consist of the ongoing work needed to ensure that an organization continues to function effectively.

T

The name and number of phases in a project life cycle are determined by the organization(s) involved in the project.

T

Soft skills

The ability to work in teams, interpersonal skills, communication, conflict resolution, negotiation, and leader ship activities

Project management

The art and science of using knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques efficiently and effectively to meet stakeholder needs and expectations

Project scope

The entirety of what will and will not be done to meet the specified requirements

Project manager

The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives

Monitor and control project work

The process of tracking, reviewing, and reporting the progress to meet performance objectives defined in the project management plan

Project budget

The sum of work package cost estimates, contingency reserve, and management reserve

Steering or leadership team

The top leader (CEO or other officer) and his or her direct reports

Monitoring and controlling processes

Track, review, and regulate progress and performance, identify changes required, and initiate changes

Which of these is NOT one of the four core values of Agile that were included in the Agile Manifesto, published in 2001?

Value following a plan over response to change.

project

a time-bound effort constrained by performance specifications, resources, and budget to create a unique product or service

Which of the following statements correctly describes project management?

a. Project management uses knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to meet stakeholder needs and expectations

Project failure can result from all of the following causes EXCEPT:

a. adequate support from executive management

Achieving project success is determined by all of the following EXCEPT:

a. involving only important key stakeholders

In an adaptive or change - driven project life cycle:

b. early results lead into planning later work.

Which of the following examples is NOT a typical or appropriate situation to employ project management?

b. processing deposits and withdrawals in a bank

Which project role provides resources or support for the project, promotes and protects the project at higher levels of management, and takes an active role in the project from the chartering stage through project closure?

c. Project sponsor

From an agile project management perspective, which of these constraints are considered to be fixed?

c. Resources and schedule

Which of the ten knowledge areas defined in the Project Management Body of Knowledge includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully?

c. Scope management

Projects are considered successful for all of the reasons below EXCEPT:

c. the team has used heroics to meet project objectives

Based on PMI's definition, which of these is a good example of a project?

designing and launching a new website

A freelance project manager is brought in by Company X to lead a large, expensive project. This project manager has excellent leadership skills and a strong technical understanding of the project. In order for her to optimize every component of the Talent Triangle, what might be a good activity for the project manager at the start of her time with Company X?

familiarize herself with the long-term objectives of Company X

Projects pass through a series of phases as they move from initiation to project closure. The names and number of these phases can vary significantly depending on the organization, the type of application, industry, or technology employed. These phases create the framework for the project, and are referred to collectively as the ________.

project life cycle

The term _________ is a broad label that describes the variety of people and groups who can impact a project or who might be impacted by either the work of, or the results of, the project.

stakeholders

When would a predictive project life cycle be the preferred approach?

when the product to be delivered is well understood