OMIS 352 Quiz #2

Which of the following best describes a kill point in the project life cycle?

A review of the status of a project at each phase of development to determine if it should be continued, redirected, or terminated

Most people believe that the underlying causes of many companies' problems can be traced to its organizational structure.

False

Systems analysis addresses the business, technological, and organizational issues associated with creating, maintaining, and modifying a system.

False

When you separate business and organizational issues from project management planning, you do a better job of ensuring project success.

False

refers to a set of shared assumptions, values, and behaviors that characterize the functioning of an organization.

Organizational culture

refers to a problem-solving approach that requires defining the scope of a system, dividing it into its components, and then identifying and evaluating its problems, opportunities, constraints, and needs.

Systems analysis

Project managers must have cooperation from people in other parts of the organization.

True

The same organization can have different subcultures.

True

Using a systems approach is critical to successful project management.

True

A(n) _____ refers to a product or service, such as a technical report, a training session, a piece of hardware, or a segment of software code, produced or provided as part of a project.

deliverable

In Rizzati Corp, vice presidents in departments such as engineering, manufacturing, IT, and human resources report directly to the chief executive officer and undertake their tasks independently of each other. The staffs of these departments have specialized skills in their respective disciplines.Rizatti Corp can be said to have a _____ organizational structure.

functional

In the _____ model, developers use a model to generate functional requirements and physical design specifications simultaneously.

prototyping life cycle

Which of the following is true of the agile approach to software development?

In the agile method, requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration.

refers to the degree to employees identify with the organization as a whole, rather than with their types of job or profession.

Member identity

refers to the degree to which the organization monitors and responds to changes in the external environment.

Open-systems focus

According to the symbolic frame, the most important aspect of any event in an organization is not what actually happened, but what it means.

True

Project managers and their teams must keep in mind the effects of any project on the interests and needs of the entire system or organization instead of focusing on the immediate concerns of the project.

True