Chapter 1 Project Management

__________ _____________ ____________ someone who has documented sufficient project experience and education, agreed to follow the PMI code of professional conduct, and demonstrated knowledge of project management by passing a comprehensive examination

Project Management Professional

an effective ___________ ___________ is crucial to a project's success. Project managers work with the project sponsors, team, and the other people involved to achieve project goals.

Project Manager

Plans, schedules, and controls activities to fulfill identified objectives applying technical, theoretical, and managerial skills to satisfy project requirements

Project Manager Consulting Firm

Works independently within established practices to assist in the development and implementation process of projects

Project Manager for a computer systems firm

Project _______ _________is an overarching function that affects and is affected by all of the other knowledge areas

integration management

Growing at a very rapid pace ________ _____

project management

Some people, in fact, refer to the _____________ ____________of project management, which includes quality as well as scope, time, and cost

quadruple constraint

Project _______ _______ ensures that the project will satisfy the stated or implied needs for which it was undertaken

quality management

_____ _________ ______is an organizational group responsible for coordinating the project management function throughout an organization. A

Project Management Office

PMI developed a talent triangle to emphasize the types of skills project managers need to continuously develop __________ management skills, _________ managment skills, and ________ skills.

Technical Project, Strategic and business, leadership

To create a successful project, a project manager must consider _______, _______, and _________ and balance these three often-competing goals:

1. Scope (what work will be done) 2. Time (how long will it take) 3. Cost (budget)

PM Solutions identified three key factors that are playing major roles in the growth of PMOs:

1. The growing strategic value of the PMO 2. The increased role of the PMO in training 3. The ever-present challenge of resource management

Project Attributes that help define a project further

1. Unique purpose 2. Temporary 3. Drives change enables value creation 4. developed progressive elaboration 5. requires resources from many area 6. should have sponsor 7. uncertainty

10 areas of project management knowledge areas 1. Project __________ __________ 2. Project _________ _________ 3. Project ________ _________ 4. Project ________ _______ 5. Project ________ ________ 6. Project ________ ___________ 7. Project _________ __________ 8. Project ________ ____________ 9. Project ________ _______________ 10. Project ______ ______________

1. scope 2. schedule 3. cost 4. quality 5. resource 6. communications 7. risk 8 procurement 9. stakeholder 10. integration

a fairly new term used to describe a culture of collaboration between software development and operations teams to build, test, and release reliable software more quick.

DevOps

________ loosely defined, is a set of principles that guides decision making based on personal values of what is considered right and wrong. Making ethical decisions is an important part of project managers' personal and professional lives because it generates trust and respect with other people.

Ethics

_________ _________ is a standard format for displaying project schedule information by listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in calendar form.

Gantt Chart

________ skills: Leadership and management are terms often used interchangeably, although there are differences. Generally, a leader focuses on long-term goals and big-picture objectives, while inspiring people to reach those goals. A manager often deals with the day-to-day details of meeting specific goals. S

Leadership

Project _________ ___________ involves acquiring or procuring goods and services for a project from outside the performing organization.

Procurement Management

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 is a ___________?

Program

__________ ____________ provides leadership and direction for the project managers heading the projects within a program. _____________ _________s also coordinate the efforts of project teams, functional groups, suppliers, and operations staff supporting the projects

Program Managers

temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result _____________.

Project

___________ _____________ knowledge areas describe the key competencies that projectmanagers must develop. 10 areas.

Project Management

________________ _____________is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements

Project Management

____________ _______________ ____________ an international professional society for project managers founded in 1969, has continued to attract and retain members, reporting more than 500,000 members worldwide by the end of 2017.

Project Management Institute

Responsibilities include business analysis, requirements gathering, project planning, budget estimating, development, testing, and implementation

Project manager for non profit consulting firm

________ and _______ management skills: Topics include strategic planning and financial management (described in more detail in Chapter 4), accounting, marketing, and other topics listed in the previous section.

Strategic Business

Project management tools and techniques assist project managers and their teams in carrying out work in all 10 knowledge areas. True or False?

True

concept of project management began with the Manhattan Project, which the U.S. military led to develop the atomic bomb in World War II. True or False?

True

operations, on the other hand, is work done in organizations to sustain the business True or False?

True

project is constrained in different ways, often by its scope, time, and cost goals True or False?

True

project manager can have many different job descriptions, which can vary tremendously based on the organization and the project organized, passionate, and goal-oriented individuals who drive business results by leading projects, True or False?

True

some popular time-management tools and techniques include Gantt charts, project network diagrams, and critical path analysis True or False?

True

Project _________ _________involves generating, collecting, disseminating, and storing project information

communications managmenet

Project ___________ ____________ consists of preparing and managing the budget for the project

cost management

To be successful in a project management job, you'll need ______ skills, ______ _______ and technical competence

people skills, business acumnen

Project ____________ ___________ is concerned with making effective use of the people and physical resources involved with the project

resource management

Project _________ ___________ includes identifying, analyzing, and responding to risks related to the project.

risk management

Project ________ __________ (formerly called project time management) includes estimating how long it will take to complete the work

schedule management

Project _________ __________ involves defining and managing all the work required to complete the project successfully.

scope management

Project ________ ___________ includes identifying and analyzing stakeholder needs while managing and controlling their engagement throughout the life of the project. 10. Project integration management is an overarching function that affects and is affected by all of the other knowledge areas

stakeholder management

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

stakeholders (different needs expectations)

______ _________management skills: Understanding the knowledge areas, process groups, and project management tools and techniques fall into this category.

technical project

project is constrained in different ways, often by its scope, time, and cost goals this is often known as ____________ ___________

triple constraint