Assignment 3

Explain or expand your thoughts in long paragraph up to five hundreds words the Answers from 1 to 10?

1. What are the Project Management Skills that you need to develop when you become a ProjectManager?

Answer:

• Planning
• Communication
• Deliveringresults
• Monitoringrisks
• Managingresources

2. What are the different Project Constraints that you willface?

Answer:

• Cost
• Scope
• Quality
• Risk
• Resources
• Time

3. Explain the things that will happen in the InitiationPhase.

Answer:

• Project sponsor is identified
• Scope and deliverables aredefined
  • Relationship to organizational goals iskey
  • Budget isapproved
  • Broad statements are made about risks, approach,timelines
  • Stakeholders areidentified
  • Project Manager is assigned
  • At end of phase, approved project charter is the approval to proceed to the planning phase

4.What are the different PMBOK KnowledgeAreas?

Answer:

• ManagingIntegration
• ManagingScope
• ManagingTime/Schedule
• ManagingCosts
• ManagingQuality
• Managing HumanResources

5. Explain StakeholderRegister.

Answer:

• Used throughout the project
• A table used to manage interactions with thestakeholders
• Lists all stakeholders and stakeholdergroups
• Information added and updated throughout the phases of theproject:
  • Interests, involvement, interdependencies, influence on projectsuccess
  • All interactions with each stakeholder or group, whether planned or not, whether initiated by the project or by thestakeholder
  • Who on the project team isresponsible
  • Closely related to the project communicationplan

6. What are the Five basic approaches to conflict resolution? What is the approach that you what to use andwhy?

Answer:

• Avoidance
• Accommodation
• Competition
• Compromise
• Collaboration

7. What are the contents in a typical ProjectCharter?

Answer:

• Identificationsection
• Project purpose or justification
• Measurable project objectives and related success criteria
• High-levelrequirements
• Assumptions andconstraints
• High-level project description andboundaries
• High-levelrisks
• Summary milestone schedule
• Summarybudget
• Stakeholderlist
• Approvals

8. What are the basic processes of ProjectPlanning?

Answer:

• Scopeplanning
• Preparing the Work BreakdownStructure
• Project schedule development
• Resourceplanning

• Budgetplanning
• Procurementplanning
• Riskmanagement
• Qualityplanning
• Communicationplanning
• Stakeholder managementplanning

9. What are the different Scopeinputs-techniques?

Answer:

Facilitated groups is a process in which a person whose selection is acceptable to all members of the group, who is substantively neutral, and who has no substantive decision-making authority diagnoses and intervenes to help a group improve how it identifies and solves problems and makes decisions, to increase the group's effectiveness.

Joint Application Development (JAD) is a process that accelerates the design of information technology solutions. JAD uses customer involvement and group dynamics to accurately depict the user's view of the business need and to jointly develop a solution.

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a focused methodology for carefully listening to the voice of the customer and then effectively responding to those needs and expectations. First developed in Japan in the late 1960s as a form of cause-and-effect analysis, QFD was brought to the United States in the early 1980s.

10. Typical project teamroles.

Answer:

• ProjectManager
• Developer
• Engineer
• Subject matterexpert
• Teammembers
• Customer / client representative