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03 Lecture Flashcards

1
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Define a Role

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A role defines a set of responibilities

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Define Responsibilites

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A duty or task a person is required to do

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3
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What are the 3 timless laws of bad role assignment

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  • Incompetence -> Peter Principle
  • Useless Role -> Dilbert’s Law
  • Increased Bureaucracy -> Parkinson’s Law
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4
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Define Delegation

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Binding a responsibility assigned to one person to another person

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5
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What are the three reasons for delegation

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  1. Time Management
  2. Expertise
  3. Training
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Define a Task

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A task describes the smalles amount of work monitored by the project manager

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7
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Define Activity

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  • Major unit of work

- Culminates in a project milestone

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Define Unit of Work

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Task or Activity that contains other tasks and lower-level activities.

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9
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Define Project Function

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An activity that spans the entire duration of a software project

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10
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What is a Work Package

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Specifies a task or activity

Must hav completion criteria

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What is included in a Work Package?

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  • Description of work to be done
  • Predictions for starting, duration, resources
  • Work products to be produced, acceptance criterial
  • Risk involved
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12
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What is a work product

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Visible outcome of a unit of work (deliverables)

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13
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Define Functional Organization

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  • people are groudped into department

- departments adress activites

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A&D of Functional Organization

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+ Members of a department have a good understanding of the functional area they support

  • It is difficult to make major investments in equipment and facilities
  • High chance for overlap or duplication of work among deparments
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Define Project-based Organization

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  • people are assigned to a project

- each of which has a problem to be solved in a certain time within a given budget

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A&D of Project-based Organization

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+ Responsive to new requirements
+ New people can be hired who are failiar with the problem
+ The is no idle time for the project members

  • Teams cannot be assembled rapidly
  • Roles and Responsibilities need to be defined at the beginning of each project
17
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Define Matrix Organization

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People form different departments of a functional organization are assigned to work on one or more projects

18
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A&D of Matrix Orga

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+ Teams for projects can be assembled rapidly
+ Expertise can be applied to different projects
+ Consistent reporting and decision procedures can be used for projects of the same type

  • Team members are often not familiar with each other
  • Team members have different working styles
  • Team members must get used to each other
19
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What is the project organization

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Defines the structure among the members of a project in teams of relationships

20
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Which relationships are there in a project organization?

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  • Decision structure
  • Reporting structure
  • Communication structure
21
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What types of communication events are distinguished?

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Scheduled

Unschedules

22
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Which types of communcation mechanisms are distingushed?

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Synchronous

Asynchornous

23
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Tasks of a Primary Facilitator

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  • Organizes the meeting
  • Creates the agenda at least one day befor the meeting
  • Makes sure the agenda is filled out before the meeting start (1h)
  • Guides the meeting as moderator
  • Makes sure the participants follow the structure of the agenda but be flexible for changes
24
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Tasks of the Minute Taker

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  • Creates meeting minutes
  • Writes down all importation information and decisions
  • Distributes the minutes to all participants
25
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Tasks of the Time Keeper

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  • Keeps track of the time

- Ther are time limizts for each section in the agende

26
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Define Project

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Scheduled effort towards the achievement of a goal that takes place within limited time, resources and budget

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