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You priced out a project at 1,000 hours, assuming a grade 7 employee would be assigned. The line manager assigns a grade 9 employee. This will result in a significant cost overrun. The project manager should:A. Reschedule the start date of the project based on the availability of a grade 7.B. Ask
As a project begins to wind down, the project manager should:A. Release all nonessential personnel so that they can be assigned to other projects.B. Wait until the project is officially completed before releasing anyone.C. Wait until the line manager officially requests that the people be
Sometimes, project office personnel report dotted (i.e., indirectly) to the project manager and remain a solid line reportee to their functional manager. Can this work effectively if it were reversed and the personnel are solid to the project manager and dotted to their functional manager?
Which of the following is not one of the sources of authority for a project manager?A. Project charterB. Job description for a project managerC. Delegation from senior managementD. Delegation from subordinates
The ill-fated Trophy Project was in trouble right from the start. Reichart, who had been an assistant project manager, was involved with the project from its conception. When the company accepted the Trophy Project, Reichart was assigned as the project manager. The program schedules started to slip
Which form of power do project managers that have a command of technology and are leading R&D projects most frequently use?A. Reward powerB. Legitimate powerC. Expert powerD. Referent power
If a project manager possesses penalty (or coercive) power, he or she most likely also possesses:A. Reward powerB. Legitimate powerC. Expert powerD. Referent power
A project manager with a history of success in meeting deliverables and in working with team members would most likely possess a great deal of:A. Reward powerB. Legitimate powerC. Expert powerD. Referent power
Most project managers are motivated by which level of Maslow's hierarchy of human needs?A. SafetyB. SocializationC. Self-esteemD. Self-actualization
You have been placed in charge of a project team. The majority of the team members have less than two years of experience working on project teams and most of the people have never worked with you previously. The leadership style you would most likely select would be:A. TellingB. SellingC.
You have been placed in charge of a new project team and are fortunate to have been assigned the same people that worked for you on your last two projects. Both previous projects were very successful and the team performed as a high-performance team. The leadership style you would most likely use
A project manager provides a verbal set of instructions to two team members on how to perform a specific test. Without agreeing or disagreeing with the project manager, the two employees leave the project manager's office. Later, the project manager discovers that the tests were not conducted
A project manager who allows workers to be actively involved with the project manager in making decisions would be using which leadership style?A. PassiveB. Participative/democraticC. AutocraticD. Laissez-faire
A project manager who dictates all decisions and does not allow for any participation by the workers would be using which leadership style.A. PassiveB. Participative/democraticC. AutocraticD. Laissez-faire
A project manager who allows the team to make virtually all of the decisions without any involvement by the project manager would be using which leadership style?A. PassiveB. Participative/democraticC. AutocraticD. Laissez-faire
Which of the following leadership styles most frequently creates “additional” time robbers for a project manager?A. TellingB. SellingC. ParticipatingD. Delegating
Which of the following leadership styles most frequently creates “additional” time robbers for the project team?A. TellingB. SellingC. ParticipatingD. Delegating
Which of the following time robbers would a project manager most likely want to handle by himself or herself rather than through delegation to equally qualified team members?A. Approval of procurement expendituresB. Status reporting to a customerC. Conflicting directives from the executive
Five people are in attendance in a meeting and are communicating with one another. How many two-way channels of communication are present?A. 4B. 5C. 10D. 20
Eddie Turner was elated with the good news that he was being promoted to section supervisor in charge of scheduling all activities in the new engineering research laboratory. The new laboratory was a necessity for Mayer Manufacturing. The engineering, manufacturing, and quality control directorates
Project managers believe that the most commonly occurring conflict is:A. PrioritiesB. SchedulesC. PersonalitiesD. Resources
The conflict that generally is the most damaging to the project when it occurs is:A. PrioritiesB. SchedulesC. PersonalitiesD. Resources
The most commonly preferred conflict resolution mode for project managers is:A. CompromiseB. ConfrontationC. SmoothingD. Withdrawal
Which conflict resolution mode is equivalent to problem solving?A. CompromiseB. ConfrontationC. SmoothingD. Withdrawal
Which conflict resolution mode avoids a conflict temporarily rather than solving it?A. CompromiseB. ConfrontationC. SmoothingD. Withdrawal
Paul was a project management consultant and often helped the Judge Advocate General's Office (JAG) by acting as an expert witness in lawsuits filed by the U.S. government against defense contractors. While most lawsuits were based on unacceptable performance by the contractors, this lawsuit was
You have been sent on a business trip to visit one of the companies bidding on a contract to be awarded by your company. You are there to determine the validity of the information in its proposal. They take you to dinner one evening at a very expensive restaurant. When the bill comes, you should:A.
You are preparing a proposal in response to a Request for Proposal (RFP) from a potentially important client. The salesperson in your company working on the proposal tells you to “lie” in the proposal to improve the company's chance of winning the contract. You should:A. Do as you are told.B.
You are preparing for a customer interface meeting and your project sponsor asks you to lie to the customer about certain test results. You should:A. Do as you are told.B. Refuse to work on the project from this point forth.C. Report the matter to either your superior or the corporate legal group
One of the project managers in your company approaches you with a request to use some of the charge numbers from your project (which is currently running under budget) for work on their project (which is currently running over budget). Your contract is a cost-reimbursable contract for a client
You have submitted a proposal to a client as part of a competitive bidding effort. One of the people evaluating your bid informs you that it is customary to send them some gifts in order to have a better chance of winning the contract. You should:A. Send them some gifts.B. Do not send any gifts and
You just discovered that the company where your brother-in-law is employed has submitted a proposal to your company. Your brother-in-law has asked you to do everything possible to make sure that his company will win the contract because his job may be in jeopardy. You should:A. Do what your
As part of a proposal evaluation team, you have discovered that the contract will be awarded to Alpha Company and that a formal announcement will be made in two days. The price of Alpha Company's stock may just skyrocket because of this contract award.You should:A. Purchase as much Alpha Company
Your company has decided to cancel a contract with Beta Company. Only a handful of employees know about this upcoming cancellation. The announcement of the cancellation will be made in about two days. You own several shares of Beta Company stock and know full well that the stock will plunge on the
You are performing a two-day quality audit of one of your suppliers. The supplier asks you to remain a few more days so that they can take you out deep-sea fishing and gambling at the local casino. You should:A. Accept as long as you complete the audit within two days.B. Accept but take vacation
You have been assigned as the project manager for a large project in the Pacific Rim. This is a very important project for both your company and the client. In your first meeting with the client, you are presented with a very expensive gift for yourself and another expensive gift for your spouse.
Your company is looking at the purchase of some property for a new plant. You are part of the committee making the final decision. You discover that the owner of a local auto dealership from whom you purchase family cars owns one of the properties. The owner of the dealership tells you in
Your company has embarked on a large project (with you as project manager) and as an output from the project there will be some toxic waste as residue from the manufacturing operations. A subsidiary plan has been developed for the containment and removal of the toxic waste and no environmental
As a project manager, you establish a project policy that you, in advance of the meeting, review all handouts presented to your external customer during project status review meetings. While reviewing the handouts, you notice that one slide contains company confidential information. Presenting this
You are managing a project for an external client. Your company developed a new testing procedure to validate certain properties of a product and the new testing procedure was developed entirely with internal funds. Your company owns all of the intellectual property rights associated with the new
Using the same scenario as in the previous question, assume that the new test procedure that is expected to be more accurate than the old test procedure indicates that performance will not meet customer specifications, whereas the old test indicates that customer specifications will be barely
Your customer has demanded to see the “raw data” test results from last week's testing. Usually the test results are not released to customers until after the company reaches a conclusion on the meaning of the test results. Your customer has heard through the grapevine that the testing showed
In which organizational form do project managers have the greatest likelihood of possessing reward power and have a wage-and-salary administration function? (The project and line manager are the same person.)A. Classical/traditionalB. ProjectizedC. Strong matrixD. Weak matrix
In which organizational form is the project manager least likely to share resources with other projects?A. Classical/traditionalB. ProjectizedC. Strong matrixD. Weak matrix
In which organizational form does the project manager often have the least amount of authority?A. Classical/traditionalB. ProjectizedC. Strong matrixD. Weak matrix
In which organization form would the project manager possess the greatest amount of authority?A. Classical/traditionalB. ProjectizedC. Strong matrixD. Weak matrix
In which organizational form is it most difficult to integrate project activities?A. Classical/traditionalB. ProjectizedC. Strong matrixD. Weak matrix
Which of the following would not be regarded as a secondary definition of project success?A. The customer is unhappy with the deliverable, but follow-on business is awarded based on effective customer relations.B. The deliverables are met but OSHA and EPA laws are violated.C. The customer is
A project is terminated early because the technology cannot be developed, and the resources are applied to another project that ends up being successful. Which of the following is true concerning the first project?A. The first project is regarded as a failure.B. The first project is a success if
Having too many life-cycle phases may be detrimental because:A. Executive sponsors will micromanage.B. Executive sponsors will become “invisible.”C. The project manager will spend too much time planning for gate review meetings rather than managing the phases.D. The project manager will need to
The most difficult decision for an executive sponsor to make at the end-of-phase review meeting is to:A. Allow the project to proceed to the next phase based on the original objective.B. Allow the project to proceed to the next phase based on a revised objective.C. Postpone making a decision until
Standardization and control are benefits usually attributed to:A. Laissez-faire managementB. Project management on R&D effortsC. Use of life-cycle phasesD. An organization with weak executive sponsorship
One way to validate the successful implementation of project management is by looking at the number and magnitude of the conflicts requiring:A. Executive involvementB. Customer involvementC. Line management involvementD. Project manager involvement
Project management methodologies often work best if they are structured around:A. Rigid policiesB. Rigid proceduresC. Minimal forms and checklistsD. Life-cycle phases
The most common threshold limits on when to use the project management methodology are:A. The importance of the customer and potential profitabilityB. The size of the project (i.e.,$) and durationC. The reporting requirements and position of the sponsorD. The desires of management and functional
Large projects are managed by:A. The executive sponsorB. The project or program office for that projectC. The manager of project managersD. The director of marketing
Projects that remain almost entirely within one functional area are best managed by the:A. Project managerB. Project sponsorC. Functional managerD. Assigned functional employees
The major behavioral issue in getting an organization to accept and use a project management methodology effectively is:A. Lack of executive sponsorshipB. Multiple boss reportingC. Inadequate policies and proceduresD. Limited project management applications
The major difference between a project and a program is usually:A. The role of the sponsorB. The role of the line managerC. The time frameD. The specifications
The most common terminology for a reusable project management methodology is:A. TemplateB. Concurrent scheduling techniqueC. Concurrent planning techniqueD. Skeleton framework document
John Compton, the president of the company, expressed his feelings quite bluntly at the executive staff meeting: We are no longer competitive in the marketplace. Almost all of the requests for proposal (RFP) that we want to bid on have a requirement that we must identify in the proposal the project
A structured process for managing a multitude of projects is most commonly referred to as:A. Project management policiesB. Project management guidelinesC. Industry-wide templatesD. A project management methodology
Your company does only projects. If the projects performed by your company are for customers external to your company and a profit criterion exists on the project, then your organization is most likely:A. Project-drivenB. Non–project-drivenC. A hybridD. All of the above are possible based on the
Conflicts between the project and line managers are most often resolved by:A. The assistant project manager for conflictsB. The project sponsorC. The executive steering committeeD. The human resources department
The person responsible for assigning the resources to a project is most often:A. The project managerB. The human resources departmentC. The line managerD. The executive sponsor
Which of the following is generally not a benefit achieved from using project management?A. Flexibility in the project's end dateB. Improved risk managementC. Improved estimatingD. Tracking of projects
Which of the following is usually not part of the criteria for project success?A. Customer satisfactionB. Customer acceptanceC. Meeting at least 75 percent of specification requirementsD. Meeting the triple-constraint requirements
Which of the following is not part of the definition of a project?A. Repetitive activitiesB. ConstraintsC. Consumption of resourcesD. A well-defined objective
A grouping of projects is called a:A. ProgramB. Project templateC. Business templateD. Business plan
The traditional competing constraints on a project are:A. Time, cost, and profitabilityB. Resources required, sponsorship involvement, and fundingC. Time, cost, and quality and/or scopeD. Calendar dates, facilities available, and funding
For 85 years, the Williams Machine Tool Company had provided quality products to its clients, becoming the third largest US-based machine tool company by 1990. The company was highly profitable and had an extremely low employee turnover rate. Pay and benefits were excellent. Between 1980 and 1990,
Does estimation poker involve the entire scrum team or just the developers.
1. Are the triple constraints of A Unique Method for Traveler-Tracking at Copenhagen Airport clear? What are they?2. What was unique about A Unique Method for Traveler-Tracking at Copenhagen Airport? What was the main conflict?3. Why are the travelers themselves a stakeholder in A Unique Method for
Would you classify the work of installing the six machines as a project? Why or why not? Explain how the project manager might trade off one of the primary objectives for another. What type of life cycle would you envision the machine installation work would follow? Why?
1. Are the triple constraints of The Smart-Grid Revolution Starts in Boulder, Colorado clear? List each of them.2. Given the range of benefits listed for the new technology, what interdependencies and conflicts do you suspect smart grids will create for utilities?3. A major portion of The
1. Which of the three universal and three common characteristics of projects are displayed in the regular torch relay?2. Since this is such a regular project—every four years since 1936—would you consider it a non-project, or a quasi-project? Why, or why not?3. Is the torch relay another part
1. What shape of life cycle did this Turning London’s Waste Dump into the 2012 Olympics Stadium have? Compare it with the life cycle of the river dredging portion of the effort. With the Olympic Torch Relay project described earlier.2. Which of the “triple constraints” seems to be uppermost
Contrast the Waterfall approach with Agile in terms of how the work is structured.
What are the underlying values associated with Agile?
How does the recognition that projects are only the middle portion of a longer chain of activities help improve the effectiveness of a project?
Why do project managers frequently not understand the purpose of the project they are responsible for?
What do you see as the major themes of the 12 Agile Principles?
1. What should the project manager have done about the challenges facing Beagle 2 Mars Probe – A Planning Failure?2. Are the recommendations complete? Would you add anything else?
Who in the governance structure has the longest serving role?
1. Why did the owners pick such a big building for sustainability refitting?2. What aspect of the tenant’s habits and routines relates to sustainability, as opposed to “green?”3. In what ways does refitting the tower enhance long-term profitability?
1. Do you think that all projects will be monitored by the CPAG or just the strategic projects?2. Will all tactical projects be terminated in the future? Where might these be handled or tracked?3. Do you think the CPAG will substantially improve the achievement of BC/BS’s strategic goals?
Describe the various phases of governance for strategic projects and their purpose.
Why do many researchers consider the first governance phase to be the most important?
Recent research on strategic projects has found that “scope” is much more important than either time or cost. Why do you think so?
Which roles in the governance structure do you think are the most well-defined and the least well-defined?
1. Contrast the two situations in terms of the project managers’ prior experience with functional and project management. What career path was each manager on? Which of the two projects would have been your preference as a PM? Which would you have found more difficult? Why?2. Considering the
1. How difficult is it to change a culture where project management is perceived as of low status and something to get out of, to one where project management is respected? How would you approach such a task?2. What was the problem with the mentality of admiring heroic rescues of projects in
1. How many project managers do you think are actually managing more than one project at a time?2. The article keeps giving advice for handling the pressure of multiple projects. How much do you think the pressure increases relative to the number of projects being handled (most of which will
1. Was Shanghai “unlucky,” or was something else the problem?2. Who was the client for Shanghai Unlucky with Passengers? Why didn’t the client complain?3. Did Shanghai Unlucky with Passengers seem to follow the objectives life cycle of Table 3-1?4. What ancillary goals were traded off in
1. Which of Kent’s 6 ways to keep stress under control do you think might work for a project manager at Twitter?2. Would you like Norlen’s job? Why (not)?3. Is it possible in a fast-growth company to avoid stress?
1. Make a list of all the stakeholders in this proposed project. Who has the most to gain? Who has the most to lose?2. Create a power-interest grid for the stakeholders and classify them into the four groups. Explain your reasoning.3. There is a great deal of money involved in this project, both
1. What was the key to solving this dilemma?2. How did the two PMs implement their strategy?3. What actions in Exhibit 1 might have been key to making this project a success?
1. Do you think this project could have achieved the same success using the traditional waterfall approach?2. In general, do crisis situations naturally lend themselves to APM?
1. List the various ways suggested in the article to identify all the stakeholders.2. How do the experts suggest prioritizing the stakeholders?3. What additional advice do the experts give about engaging with the stakeholders and why?4. Does the article give any advice on how to “manage for
1. What categories of conflict occurred in The Quad Sensor Project?2. At what stage was The Quad Sensor Project.3. What negotiation techniques were used here?4. How successful were they?

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