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Which process group focuses on completing the requirements of the project?A. Initiating B. Planning C. Executing D. Closing
Which of the following is the most appropriate thing to do in project closing?A. Work with the customer to determine acceptance criteria.B. Confirm all the requirements in the project have been met.C. Collect historical information from previous projects.D. Gain formal approval of the management
During which process group does the team measure and analyze the work being done on the project?A. Initiating B. Executing C. Monitoring and controlling D. Closing
The first phase of your project has come to an end. What is the most important thing to ensure is done before beginning the next phase?A. Verify that the resources are available for the next phase.B. Check the project's progress compared to its baselines.C. Confirm that the phase has reached its
What key point about the process groups and domains is important to know in studying for the exam?A. Being able to correlate these two frameworks with each other will help you understand the project management process.B. By combining these two perspectives, you can determine the best sequence in
The software development project has progressed according to plan. The team is very enthusiastic about the product they have created. Now they are looking ahead to finding new projects to work on. You caution them that the current project cannot be considered complete until after the closing
Which statement about process groups and domains is accurate?A. Both process groups and domains recommend the best practices that should be followed on all projects.B. Since the process groups lack a definitive framework, they allow for more flexibility in the development approach.C. Compared to
You are managing two projects and have been assigned to a third project that has just been approved.You begin the new project, and are able to manage it well along with the others you are managing.During initiating, you are focused on accomplishing a number of activities. Which of the following are
Which project management process group generally takes the most project time and resources?A. Planning B. Design C. Integration D. Executing
What does a project manager need to do to deliver value in the context of the organization and its business environment?A. Understand the organizational and project governance and how they may impact the project.B. Review the lessons learned from other projects and use them to generate
Which of the following is a characteristic of project management processes?A. Iterative B. Unique C. Unnecessary D. Standardized
During a team meeting, a team member asks about the measurements that will be used on the project to assess performance. The team member feels that some of the measures related to activities assigned to him are not valid measurements. The project is most likely in what part of the project manage-
A project manager gets a call from a team member notifying him that there is a variance between the speed of a system on the project and the desired or planned speed. The project manager is surprised because that performance measurement was not identified in planning. If the project manager then
Why does the agile approach plan the work continuously throughout the project?A. Agile methods break down the work into small chunks so the team can complete one iteration at a time.B. An agile product owner can't know what they really need until they see a prototype in action.C. Agile teams are
The best time to assign a project manager to a project is during:A. Integration B. Project selection C. Initiating D. Planning
A project manager does not have much time to spend on planning before the mandatory start date arrives. He therefore wants to move through planning as effectively as possible. What advice would you offer?A. Make sure you have a signed project charter and then start the WBS.B. Create an activity
The WBS and WBS dictionary have been completed, and the project team has begun working on identifying risks. The sponsor contacts the project manager, requesting that the responsibility assignment matrix be issued. The project has a budget of $100,000 and is taking place in three countries using 14
The high-level project schedule constraints have just been determined. What project management process group are you in? A. Initiating B. Planning C. Executing D. Monitoring and controlling
The project sponsor has just signed the project charter. What is the next thing to do? A. Begin to complete work package B. Validate scope C. Start integrated change control D. Start to create management plans
Your team is building a website to provide resources for families and childcare providers who want to design their own homeschooling programs. The site will include many features. As each feature is completed, the product owner reviews it and either accepts it or tells the team what needs to be
Which of the following is not an input to the initiating process group?A. Company processes B. Company culture C. Historical WBSs D. Project scope statement
A detailed project schedule can be created only after creating the:A. Project budget B. Work breakdown structure C. Project management plan D. Detailed risk assessment
The project charter is created in which project management process group?A. Executing B. Planning C. Closing D. Initiating
A project manager has received some help from the team, and she needs help from them again so that she can create a detailed project budget. Which project management process group is she in?A. Initiating B. Before the project management process C. Planning D. Executing
A company is making an effort to improve its project performance and create historical records of past projects. What is the best way to accomplish this?A. Create project management plans.B. Create lessons learned.C. Create network diagrams.D. Create status reports.
What is a program?A. An initiative set up by management B. A means to gain benefits and control of related projects C. A group of unrelated projects managed in a coordinated way D. A government regulation
Consideration of ongoing operations and maintenance is crucially important to products of projects.Ongoing operations and maintenance should:A. Be included as activities to be performed during project closure B. Be a separate phase in the project life cycle because a large portion of life cycle
Project A has an internal rate of return (IRR) of 21 percent. Project B has an IRR of 7 percent. Project C has an IRR of 31 percent. Project D has an IRR of 19 percent. Which of these would be the best project? A. Project A B. Project B C. Project C D. Project D
A complex aerospace engineering project is nearing completion. Because the work was highly technical and new to the organization, the product of the project was released two months later than planned.Despite the late delivery, management is appreciative of the effort expended and believes that this
The difference between a project, program, and portfolio is:A. A project is a temporary endeavor with a beginning and an end, a program may include other nonproject work, and a portfolio is all the projects in a given department or division.B. A project is a lengthy endeavor with a beginning and an
One of your team members informs you that he does not know which of the many projects he is working on is the most important. Who should determine the priorities between projects in a company?A. The project manager B. The project management team C. The project management office (PMO)D. The project
A project team is working on manufacturing a new product, but they are having difficulty creating a project charter. What is the best description of the real problem?A. They have not identified the project objectives.B. They are working on a process and not a project.C. The end date has not been
Your management team has decided that all orders will be treated as projects and that project managers will be used to update orders daily, to resolve issues, and to ensure the customer formally accepts the product within 30 days of completion. Revenue from the individual orders can vary from $100
A project manager is managing his second project. It started one month after the first one did, and both projects are still in process. Though his first project is small, the new project seems to be quickly growing in size. As each day passes, the project manager is feeling more and more in need of
If a project manager is concerned with gathering, integrating, and disseminating the outputs of all project management processes, she should concentrate on improving the:A. Work breakdown structure (WBS)B. Communications management plan C. Project management information system (PMIS)D. Scope
Your project involves redesigning an online training portal in order to enhance the learner experience. The project performance will be measured based on customer feedback surveys. The redesign is being delivered incrementally, over multiple releases. What will be the best way to measure the
Your corporate compliance office has just issued a new requirement that a complex security checklist must be submitted before the release of every high-criticality product. Since this form wasn't originally required, you didn't make plans for completing it. Your release date is approaching and the
A project manager's primary responsibility is to deliver the product of the project within project constraints. Actions taken and changes made to the benefit of one constraint could negatively affect another. Which of the following best describes the major constraints on a project?A. Scope, number
A framework for keeping an organization focused on its overall strategy is:A. Organizational project management B. The PMBOK® Guide C. Project governance D. Portfolio management
All the following are characteristics of a project except:A. It is temporary.B. It has a definite beginning and end.C. It has interrelated activities.D. It repeats itself every month.
Two project managers have just realized that they are in a weak matrix organization and that their power as project managers is quite limited. One figures out that he is really a project expediter, and the other realizes she is really a project coordinator. How is a project expediter different from
A plan-driven organization is trying to move toward a more agile approach. As part of this process, you have been asked to manage the organization's first hybrid project. What can you expect?A. You will plan the project with the usual predictive process, then the team will use agile practices to
A project team member is talking to another team member and complaining that many people are asking him to do things. If he works in a functional organization, who has the power to give direction to the team member? A. The project manager B. The functional manager C. The team D. The PMO
A project manager has little project experience, but she has been assigned as the project manager of a new project. Because she will be working in a matrix organization to complete her project, she can expect communications to be:A. Simple B. Open and accurate C. Complex D. Hard to automate
You are managing a project to develop an online course in teaching English as a second language. The project charter includes a requirement that the course include complex interactive games, like the courses offered by your competitors. Since your organization's current learning management system
A project manager is trying to complete a software development project, but cannot get enough attention for the project. Resources are focused on completing process-related work, and the project manager has little authority to assign resources. What form of organization must the project manager be
A project team is discussing the benefits and drawbacks of working on projects within their organization now that it has become project oriented. They can agree on many advantages for the team and for the organization, but also agree there are some drawbacks relative to the strong matrix structure
Consider the skills and qualities of project managers described in the ‘developmental approach’ (section 23.4). Can you add to these? How far do you see yourself being proficient in these skills? How could you develop further?
How does the ‘vision of the project manager’ in this chapter relate to the way you see the job? Are there aspects of the job that do not appear in the vision? Why might that be?
Think of a situation at home, at work, at university or in a club to which you belong. It is a situation that involves you. You want to change the present circumstances and set a new basis for the future. Using the behavioural commitments at the end of section 21.4, what could you do to change
How can Maslow and Herzberg’s theories of motivation help you to organize your project team and the way work is allocated?
Refer back to the introduction and consider again the leadership challenge at the end of the section. What kind of project management would you need to deliver to have people volunteer to work on your projects?
You have to design a ‘hearts and minds’ programme connected with the implementation of a new system for the recording and management of stock in a book publishing company and for the supply of books to booksellers. What would be the main stages of such a programme?
Consider the organization that employs you or where you study. What is its culture? Why does it have that particular culture? What organizational culture would give you most satisfaction as an employee? Where might you find such an employer? Given your preferred organizational culture, what would
computer dealerships, each of which is franchised to its local owner-manager. They have all done their own accounting before. What change issues would you expect to encounter? Does the fact that they are PC dealerships make any difference? Why might they have joined together in the chain?
You are the project manager for a new management accounting system that will provide monthly profit and loss accounts to a chain of
Explain how quality control can be applied to a subcontractor’s work.
Describe four methods that can be used to monitor supplier performance.
Subcontracts often include penalty clauses to give the main contractor protection in the case of the supplier’s poor performance. Why are penalty clauses not the complete answer to safeguarding the main contractor’s position?
It is important that the contracts between the main contractor and the customer and between the main contractor and subcontractors are backto-back; what is meant by this term?
Describe three situations in which an IS project may need or wish to use subcontractors.
Why is it important for the project manager to establish a network of contacts within the IS organisation and also within the user organization? In what circumstances can these networks be useful?
What is meant by the term ‘managing expectations’? Why is expectation management an important part of the project manager’s job? What influences a customer’s expectations?
Stakeholders have different interests or ‘stakes’ in a project. How can you determine where to put your management effort?
If selling is an asking process, how could you use it to help you sell some extra functionality to a system under development?
Persuading someone to buy is a complex process. Why is this? Is the process inherently complex or is it because so many people are involved?
How would you assess the importance of sales skills for a project manager? Are they, in your view, increasing or decreasing in importance? Why do you think there is this change? Is it more important to understand selling or buying?
Once a project is under way, how can value management be used to evaluate proposed changes
How can value management be used to compare different possible design solutions?
What is meant by the term ‘value tree’?
Explain the difference between value management and value engineering.
Describe the characteristics needed in a risk owner.
Two types of risk action are avoidance actions and mitigation actions. Describe the relationship between these types of risk action and where each might be employed.
Three factors that need to be assessed when considering risks are likelihood, impact and urgency. Explain what is meant by each of these terms and show how each might be assessed.
Describe a five-stage process for project risk management.
Why is the use of risk management techniques becoming increasingly important in IS projects?
Do you agree with what Dick Brandon said about sex in section 14.10? Do not take this question too seriously!
What is the purpose of a quality plan? Who should create it?
Why do you suppose there is an increasing number of organizations concerned with the development of quality practices for IS development?
How could the quality culture behaviours described in section 14.3 be applied in a hospital?
What are the benefits to the project manager of providing regular progress reports to the project team members?
What is meant by the term ‘exception reporting’? What are the benefits and the disadvantages of this type of reporting?
What factors would you consider when deciding on the frequency with which you would report progress to (a) senior IS management, and (b) customer management?
Explain the difference between change control and configuration management and the relationship between them.
Changes often bedevil IS projects. What steps are required to ensure that proper change control is exercised on a project?
In what circumstances might you (a) increase or (b) decrease the amount of supervision given to a team member?
Your project is behind schedule and you are considering adding extra staff to the team. What would be the potential advantages and disadvantages of this approach?
What is meant by the term the ‘triple constraint’? What are the three elements of the triple constraint and why is an understanding of their relative weights important in exercising control over a project?
Explain these terms: actual cost of work performed (ACWP); budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP); budgeted cost of work scheduled (BCWS)
What does the term ‘earned value analysis’ mean? What additional insights into the dynamics of a project are afforded by the use of EVA?
In what circumstances might you consider increasing the volume and/or frequency of quality control checks? When might you decrease their volume or frequency?
Describe three methods than could be used to exercise quality control and explain the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Staff time is usually the principal cost component of an IS project. Describe five other areas where project costs could arise.
How is effort monitored on a project? It is important that the effort to be spent on activities is reassessed on a regular basis. Why is this so vital?
The PRINCE2® project management method envisages a hierarchy of plans. Describe this hierarchy.
What do you understand by the term ‘project milestone’? How would you decide how many milestones to show on your project plan?
per cent of the total available time. What factors will reduce staff availability and what adjustments should be made for them?
In long-term project planning, it is wise to assume that staff will be available for project work for less than
Scheduling a project involves understanding the degree to which project tasks can be ‘partitioned’. What is meant by this term and what effect does partitioning have on the scheduling process?
Explain the difference between ‘effort’ and ‘elapsed time’. What is the significance of this difference for project planning purposes?

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