MGMT 381

The ____ level of a WBS represents the major products or phases of the project.

1

There are ____ main processes involved in project time management.

6

There are ____ main processes involved in project integration management.

7

Generally, each work package in a WBS should represent roughly ____ hours of effort.

80

The goal of the ____ process is to ensure that the project team has complete understanding of all the work they must do as part of the project scope so they can start scheduling the work.

Activity definition

The main outputs of the ____ process are an activity list, activity attributes, milestone list, and requested changes.

Activity definition

____ involves evaluating the reasons for dependencies and the different types of dependencies.

Activity sequencing

Projects that address ____ are much more likely to be successful because they will be important to the organization.

Broad organizational needs

In which information technology planning stage do organizations document key business processes that could benefit from information technology?

Business Area Analysis

____ is a network diagramming technique used to predict total project duration.

Critical path analysis

The term ____ describes a product produced as part of a project.

Deliverable

The ____ tasks vary the most from project to project.

Executing

An organization's information technology project selection process should guide the strategic plan.

False

Duration only includes the actual amount of time worked on an activity.

False

It is easy to create a good WBS.

False

Projects rarely involve uncertainty.

False

Stakeholders' needs and expectations are only important in the beginning of a project.

False

The ROI is always positive.

False

The critical path always includes the most critical activities.

False

The nature of hardware development projects is more diverse than software-oriented projects.

False

____ involves doing activities in parallel that you would normally do in sequence.

Fast tracking

There are ____ main processes involved in project scope management.

Five

____ is the amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following activities.

Free slack

Project managers have the least amount of authority in a pure ____.

Functional organizational structure

In which information technology planning stage do organizations tie information technology strategy to mission and vision of organization and identify key business areas?

Information Technology Strategy Planning

The critical path is the ____ path through a network diagram, and it represents the ____ time it takes to complete a project.

Longest; shortest

Many organizations assert that using project management provides advantages, such as ____.

Lower cost

The project scope management knowledge area maps to the ____ process group through the activities of scope verification and scope control.

Monitoring and controlling

Most systems analysts begin their careers as ____.

Programmers

The ____ section of the project management plan describes how to monitor project progress and handle changes.

Project controls

A ____ is a collection of project phases.

Project life cycle

A(n) ____ is a document used to coordinate all project planning documents and help guide a project's execution and control.

Project management plan

The ____ section of the project plan should describe the major project functions and activities and identify those individuals who are responsible for them.

Project responsibilities

The ____ section of the project management plan might include a Gantt chart.

Project schedule information

The ____ model requires heavy user involvement, and developers use a model to generate functional requirements and physical design specifications simultaneously.

Prototyping life cycle

Project management software highlights the critical path in ____ on a network diagram.

Red

The ultimate goal of ____ is to create a realistic project schedule that provides a basis for monitoring project progress for the time dimension of the project.

Schedule development

A(n) ____ is a document used to develop and confirm a common understanding of the project scope.

Scope statement

____ 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 verification

The project ____ usually provides direction and funding for the project.

Sponsor

____ 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

A(n) ____ is a document that describes the products or services to be created by the project team.

Statement of work

____ describes a holistic view of carrying out projects within the context of the organization.

Systems thinking

The ____ section of the project management plan describes specific methodologies a project might use and explains how to document information.

Technical processes

____ is the amount of time an activity can be delayed from its early start without delaying the planned project finish date.

Total slack

The limitations of scope, time, and cost goals are sometimes referred to as the ____.

Triple constraint

Many projects, especially in information technology, have very unrealistic schedule expectations.

True

Payback period is the amount of time it will take to recoup, in the form of net cash inflows, the total dollars invested in a project.

True

Until the 1980s, project management primarily focused on providing schedule and resource data to top management in the military, computer, and construction industries.

True

The ____ model assumes that requirements will remain stable after they are defined.

Waterfall life cycle