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Methods Of IT Project Management 3rd Edition Jeffrey L. Brewer; Kevin C. Dittman - Solutions
Why is it important at the beginning of project planning to build resource estimates, assuming that resources will not be required to work overtime to complete their assignments?
What does it mean and why is it important to follow a progressive elaboration process when creating duration and cost estimates?
Explain why it is important to define duration estimates in two dimensions: effort and duration.
Explain the analogous approach to assigning resources to a WBS. List its advantages and disadvantages.
Explain the activities that occur during the activity duration estimating process.
List and explain the four types of dependencies possible between tasks on a precedence diagram.
Explain the difference between logical and physical task relationships.
How do you know when to stop decomposing a task?
Explain the rationale and process for decomposing tasks into smaller and smaller units of work.
Explain the concept of time robbers and list some that you experience on a daily basis as you try to complete homework and study for exams.
The U.S. military has a specification (MIL-HDBK-881) written to describe what a WBS should look like. Use the Internet to look up the standard and write a comparative analysis between it and what is described in this chapter.
Conduct a comparative analysis between the United States and other countries (India, Russia, China) to determine at what level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs workers fresh out of college generally start. What implication does this have for project managers in the United States and in those other
Do a product search for applications that are designed to document requirements and describe some of the key benefits they describe.
Research the impact that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and HIPAA are having on U.S. companies’ IT departments.
Research several organizations either in your community or over the web to find out how they go about building a WBS and what their WBSs look like. Are these WBSs organized by phase or product component?
Research the statement from McConnell (1998)that errors found “upstream” during the planning phase cost on the order of 200 times less to fix than errors found “downstream,” during the building of the product. Therefore, more time spent upstream reduces the number of costly mistakes later
The good news: You have been promoted into a project leader position. The bad news: The software development team you need to manage has been having problems with missed deadlines and morale. The previous project leader was fired for not being able to get things turned around. The team is made up
Build a WBS for one of the chapter case study projects other than asset management—either customer relationship management or collection management. You may need to do some research on the Internet about how such software packages work. The project should use an iterative approach and be
Develop a WBS to at least two levels of detail for a spring break trip to Florida by car with three of your closest friends. Be sure to identify critical success factors for the trip.
Develop a WBS to at least two levels of detail for the complete hardware upgrade of the computers in one of your university’s computer labs. Be sure to identify critical success factors for the upgrade.
The project should be organized by short iterations, not trying to deploy all modules at the same time. You should first implement the general ledger component in release 1; release 2 will include the other financial modules, release 3 the sales component, and release 4 the manufacturing software.
Build a WBS for the short case study in question 9 in Chapter
Meet with a group of four or five classmates and brainstorm to come up with a list of characteristics that describe the worst teammates (no names!)you have ever worked with either in class or on a job. Discuss ways you might exercise power over these individuals to change their behavior.
Describe the factors that you believe will motivate you to do your best work when you graduate and get your first job. Will these factors change over time? If so, how?
Perform a self-assessment: Do you prefer to work in a team or on your own? Why? Does your answer depend on the task or project? Explain.
Explain the main benefit of generating a requirements traceability matrix and describe the contents of this matrix.
Explain the main benefit of generating a roles and responsibilities matrix (RRM) and describe the contents of this matrix.
Project managers can possess five types of interpersonal influence. Name and describe them.
Describe the three influences that Thamhain and Wilemon found to offer the project manager the best chance for success and the types that may cause the opposite effect.
Differentiate between legal authority and acquired authority.
List and explain the factors that lead to job dissatisfaction and those that lead to satisfaction according to Herzberg.
Describe Frederick Herzberg’s hygiene theory of employee needs.
Explain the difference between a Theory X employee and a Theory Y employee.
List and explain the five levels of Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
Describe the contents of the WBS dictionary and its purpose.
Describe several uses for a WBS.
What is the 100 percent rule?
Describe each of the methods for creating a WBS and describe advantages and disadvantages of each.
Describe each of the components of the PIECES framework and its uses.
Explain what subject matter experts are and why they are important to a project.
Discuss project management related problems created due to “scope creep.”
List and explain the characteristics that determine the size and depth of the scope statement.
Describe two sources of project scope elements besides stakeholders and team participants.
List and briefly explain the key deliverables for the scope planning process.
Explain what is meant by the following: “The project scope statement should not be built in isolation.”
Define a preliminary scope statement for a project to build a simple interactive web site for this class. The web site should be accessible only by current students and instructors. The web site should allow students access to all the material presented in the class, including lecture slides and
Describe a well-planned and well-executed project you were a part of either in school or outside school. Describe a project that wasn’t as well planned. Explain what was different about the two and what led to success or failure.
Statistics have shown that many organizations today still don’t fully utilize a project selection process. Explain why you think this is the case.
Can a nonprofit organization receive any value from quantitative selection methods? Explain.
Build a list of characteristics that can be used for a WSM. Discuss how different organizations might set the weights based on good and bad economic conditions and highly competitive situations.
Search the web or use other means to find examples of project charters. Then do a comparative analysis across industry segments and project types. What items have these charters included that this chapter doesn’t describe?
Compare the results from question 1 to those you get from your university’s or college’s IT department.What differences did you find, and why do you think a university’s criteria might differ from the criteria used by a corporate organization?
Write a research paper, reviewing the project selection methods that today’s organizations from various industries are using. Also look into the WSM criteria and the relative weights different organizations are using.
Create a stakeholder assessment matrix based on the following scenario. Be sure to build a list of all stakeholders. Use the format shown in Figure 4-8.J&B Enterprises is the second-largest maker of Mylar balloons in the world. It is headquartered on the south side of Indianapolis. The company
Olivia, a PMP with 20 years of experience, has been working for the Bank of Lafayette for only a few months when her boss, Glenn, the director of IT, asked her to step in and get a project scope statement finalized and start the project. Olivia spoke with the current IT project leader, Jill, to
Agraj Gokhale has just been promoted and is running his first IT project. The kickoff meeting, run by Agraj and his lead software developer, has taken place, and Agraj is very excited as he explains the results to his manager (who was not at the meeting)one week later. Agraj says, “The meeting
The final section of the chapter presents the project charter for one of the projects that R & S Amusements Services chose to work on. Write up a project charter for one of the other projects.
As someone who has taken a project management course using this text and understands the need to select projects using a variety of factors, you have finally convinced your organization’s steering committee to use a WSM to select its projects.The steering committee has decided to use the
Use the same project information presented in question 3 but change the discount rate to 7 percent.Does the choice of which project to work on change?
You work for a large, successful organization, but lately many of the IT projects have experienced disappointing results. You have been put on the steering committee to improve the selection process. The organization has decided that any new projects selected for implementation must first meet
As payment for programming services your consulting company provided, a client offers you two choices: (1) $10,000 now or (2) a share in the company, which you are fairly sure will be worth$15,500 four years from now. Using a discount factor of 10 percent, which offer should you choose?
Using a discount factor of 8 percent, calculate the current value of an investment that is worth$20,000 two years from today.
What does the acronym SWOT stand for? Explain its use.
In your opinion, what are some of the major drawbacks to qualitative models?
Describe the 10-step project selection process.
Who should be invited to attend the kickoff meeting?
Who should be the individual responsible for planning and organizing (scheduling, sending out the invitations, and so on) the kickoff meeting.Justify your answer.
Describe the contents of a stakeholder assessment matrix.
What type of information is collected through a stakeholder analysis? Explain the process.
List and explain the major components of a project charter.
What is a project charter, and what are its principal uses?
List and explain the four perspectives the balanced scorecard uses to analyze an organization’s performance. How does this relate to project selection?
How does the real options approach apply to the selection of IT projects?
Explain the process of creating a WSM. Include an explanation of the selection of weights for each criterion.
Using your own words and example, explain the concept of the time value of money.
Describe the stakeholders who should participate on the project selection team.
Research other certifications for project management professionals. Do a comparative analysis of your findings. Does one certification offer more benefits than another? Write a paper presenting your recommendation on which one would be the best to pursue and why.
Research other professional societies that deal with project management and write a paper discussing the differences from and similarities to PMI.
Research the SIGs listed on PMI’s web site, at www.pmi.org. Choose one SIG and research its mission and objectives.Prepare a presentation for the class.
Visit PMI’s web site, at www.pmi.org. Become familiar with the content and location of important information at this site.
Give your own interpretation of the analogy that the process groups supply us with a roadmap to follow and the knowledge areas describe the methods (for example, car, plane, bus) of how to get to our final destination.
Define the term deliverable.
What is a component process?
List and define the ten knowledge areas.
Define the term framework.
What is a PMP?
Define what is meant by a PMI special interest group.
Mark, Pam, and Rick all work in the IT department for a large manufacturing company. Mark supports the accounting department, Pam supports the purchasing department, and Rick supports the quality control department. Mark has started working on a new software application to upgrade the financial
For an IT project dealing with upgrading all company computers to the latest version of the Windows operating system, list and explain the forces in the environment that may cause problems.
As a student, you generally take more than one course during a given semester. Each course requires different amounts of your time, at varying schedules. Many students spend more time on the courses within their major than on others because generally they are more interested in the subject. But
Which one(s) of the methodologies described in this chapter do you feel would be the most difficult to manage? Explain. Which do you think is the most successful? Why?
Give some examples of projects you have worked on where you feel the wrong methodology was used and where you feel the right methodology was used. Explain the ramifications of these methodology choices.
Based on the following criteria, construct a decision tree to determine the best product development methodology: risk, size both in dollars and effort, company culture, location of team participants, amount of planning and control needed, and rate of environment change.
Lori is the newly appointed project manager for the Fultz Metal Works Company, a small $30 million tool-and-die manufacturer. To remain competitive, the company is launching a series of projects to upgrade all of its computer-aided machinery.The project will be costly and risky for Fultz Metal.
You work for a large pharmaceutical company that has offices spread out all over the globe. Your boss comes to your office, excited about a new methodology he just read about called Extreme Programming, and he wants you to use it on the new HR application that your group is getting ready to work
This chapter states that much of what a project manager does exists on the boundary of the project.Explain what is meant by this statement.
Define the concept of systems in your own words and give examples of a system in which the sum of its parts is worth more than each part individually.
What is a product life cycle, and how is it used?
Write a short paper, describing two projects you have worked on previously either during an internship, in class, or as a full-time employee.Describe one project that went well and why and describe one project that didn’t go very well and why. In the summary, explain why you believe many IT
Use the web site of the Project Management Institute, www.pmi.org, as well as other sites to research the creation of the Guide to the PMBOK and how it has evolved over time to its current edition. Explain its significance to the project management profession.
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