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All The Mother Trucking Cards For CAPM Flashcards

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Servant Leadership

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The leader puts others first and focuses on their needs.

Servant leaders provide an opportunity for growth, education, autonomy, and care about the well-being of others.

Servant > serve… ⬅️ Just remember this.

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Situational Power

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The situation has given someone power (kinda like me at Overstock)

I’m not labeled a manager or senior but I have situational power.

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Project Manager

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A PM… duh…. just lead the team dummy

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Positional Power

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I am a manager, therefore you bow down!

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Process Groups

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5 process groups

49 project management processes

Initiating
Planning
Executing
Controlling and Monitoring
Closing
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Work Performance Data

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Raw data, observations, and measurements about a project.

Gathered and stored in a fancy PM IS < You better now forget what this is…

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PMBOK

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PMI publication that defined the general best practices for the Project Management Body of Knowledge

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Cultural Norms

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We are Overstock.

What do we value?
Acceptable ethics, hours, or views.

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Organizational Process Assets

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Corporation has said these things, do them

2 categories
Processes, policies, and procedures (bitch stay in line!)
Organizational KBs (I am all-knowing!)

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Deliverable

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A product, service, or result created by a project.

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Referent Power

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The manager has credibility from being worked with in the past.

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Business Value

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A quantifiable return on investment

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Functional Structure

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Think storm troopers that are working in different departments and the “red” one is the functional manager with all the power but the one with a red stripe is the project manager and is effectively everyone’s bitch (Little to no power)

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Subprojects

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I’m so damn big that I need to contract a smaller project

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Project Business Case

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Justifies financial validity of why a project is chartered (created). Helps to decide if a project is a go/no-go.

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Transformational Leadership

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The leader inspires and motivates the project team.

Aim to empower the team to act, be innovative in the project work, and accomplish through ambition.

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Reward Power

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PM says, “Yo! I got a shiny apple as a reward… Who wants it? 😜 “

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Expert Power

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Deep skills and experience in a discipline. I Rock! What you gonna do about it?

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Balanced Matrix Structure

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The organization has decided that functional and project managers need to be better at sharing so put their resources in the middle so they can take a little bit at a time

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Work Performance Information

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Processed and analyzed data to help you make a decision

Data > Information duh…

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Media Selection

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Choose the right way to communicate

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Style

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Tone, structure, and formality of the message being sent. Don’t mess it up.

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Interactional Leadership

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Hybrid! I’m a cockamouse duckbadger!

Combo of Transactional, transformational, and charismatic.

Wants team to act, is excited and inspired, and holds team accountable.

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Leadership

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Aligning, motivating, and inspiring the project team to do the right thing, build trust, think creatively and not step out of line. (Maintain status quo)

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EEFs are Demogorgons… Which come from within the project and which come from outside?

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Internal: 
Culture
Structure
Governance
IT Software
Resource Availability
External:
Marketplace conditions
Social and cultural influences
Legal shit
Government of industry standards
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Project

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A temporary endeavor that results in business value being created for the company

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General Management Skills

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Application of general business functions like accounting procurement, sales, IT, etc.

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Project portfolio management

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Management of an organizations portfolio

The fat guy throwing “project burgers” on scales to try to balance them.

Helps balance priority, risk, reward, and return on investment

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Ingratiating Power

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Hey there cutie! PM uses flattery. Dis probably ain’t considered a good thing…

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Supportive
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Controlling
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Directive
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Supportive - I support you but it’s cause I have deemed you as not needing more control (or I don’t care… 😊 )

Controlling - I’m here to help when you need it, OH and you “need” it always

Directive - This is my project and you will do it exactly how I tell you to!!! please.

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Guilt-based Power

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Let’s get guiltacle. Making someone feel bad to get what you want… smh….

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Program

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A collection of projects

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Meeting Management

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Manage meetings effectively. Yano?

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Project Management Professional (PMP)

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A person who has proven project management experience and has qualified for and then passed the PMP examination.

A badass project manager

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The international and political environment

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Think differences in local and international laws, languages, time zones, etc.

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Project Management Office (PMO)

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The central office that oversees all projects

Think, Dad has to call into a meeting that describes where their project is or how it is being worked on by the projects team.

“There is a new sheriff in town”

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Active Listening

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Listen to understand. Then speak once the message is understood.

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Management

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Focused on positional power, kinda like “I got the power!” but in the end uses that power to get shit done.

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Triple Constraints of Project Management

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Iron Triangle.

HEY! There are two of these… I better remember the time, cost, and scope of a project

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Application Areas

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Examples: Architecture, IT, Health care, manufacturing

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Weak Matrix Organization

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Everyone STILL has to share BUT project managers are kicked to the curb

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Transactional Leadership

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Emphasizes goals, rewards, and disincentives (whatever the hell those are)

Management by Exception because the “exception” is rewarded or punished

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Personal or Charismatic Power

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People like your personality. (Just means your ugly AF))

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Progressive Elaboration

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Process of gathering project details.

Think, I have a statement or something that I need an answer for

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Virtual Organization

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Anyone wanna play telephone?

Each department has a Point-of-Contact to send and receive all the messages through a can attached to other cans by a string

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Project Benefits Management Plan

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Defines the what, when, and how of the benefits that a project will bring.

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Strong Matrix Structure

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Everyone still has to share but functional manager… sorry bro you have less project power.

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Professional Development Units (PDUs)

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PDUs are earned after the PMP to maintain the cert. 60 in a three-year period. Min. 35 from educational opportunities.

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Governance Framework

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Organizations governance that applies to portfolios, programs, and projects < You better know what the hell these are by now. The governance helps everyone keep their shit together (vision, risk management, performance factors, and communication)

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Project Environment

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Describe the environment where a project will be completed

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Multidivisional Structure

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Hey! You just did exactly what I did! NICE Work! (let’s all do the same thing in our own departments)

The project manager still sucks (little to no power)

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Project Management Institute

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The scary organization that tells PM’s how to be better PM’s

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Work Performance Reports

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Put that dope information in a report so you can show it to your cool boss

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Physical Environment

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Where are you and what kind of things around you affect your work?

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Pressure-based Power

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PM can restrict choices to get the team to do what he wants. 😈

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Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEFs)

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Conditions that can come out of the project like a small Demogorgon and eat your face!
*Things like policies

Or they can gang up on you from outside the project like 50,000 medium sized Demogorgons that all want a piece.
* Laws or Regulations (BORING)

Either way, they affect the outcome of your project

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Project Life Cycle

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Describes the phases of a project. Every PROJECT life cycle is different

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Charismatic Leadership

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Be freaking happy! Share energy, be positive and let people know that they can freaking do it!

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Active Problem Solving

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Define the problem.

Determine the difference between the root cause and the effect.

Doing a root-cause analysis helps look beyond the immediate symptoms to the cause of the symptoms.

Determining the root-cause gives opportunities for solutions

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Culture and Social Environment

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How a project affects people and how those people may affect the project.

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Project-Oriented Structure

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PM: “Quick! Everyone run to that side of the ship!”

The PM has power over his peeps for the duration of the ship ride.. I mean project!

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PMI Talent Triangle

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Those three things (part of the triangle) ⬇️ … The PMI says, “Yo! Stay relevant and keep your cert with this PDU shit! OTAY?”

Technical Project Management
Leadership
Strategic and Business Managment

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Presentation

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Look at my PowerPoint everyone! I’m communicating!

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Punitive or Coercive Power

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Punish him! or her… or they…?

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Organizational Knowledge Repositories

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You heard someone did this project successfully? Check the knowledge repositories, it’s supposed to tell us things like that…

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Hybrid Structure

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I’m a little matrix (you better share),
a little functional (discriminate against red striped PM storm troopers),
and a little project-oriented (“everyone to that side of the ship”)

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Avoiding Power

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When it comes time to act, get involved, or make decisions, the PM says, “That’s a nah from me dawg”

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Organizational System

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The project manager finally thinks he has some power… WRONG! I direct him on how to use his power, influence, leadership etc. bottom line… I am king… get used to it

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Interpersonal skills

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How well do you interact with, lead, and manage people

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Informational Power

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I got the power of information gathering and distribution.

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Iron Triangle of Project Management

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Triangle with the characteristics of time, cost, and scope.

*Triple constraints of project management

Because all projects are contained by time, cost, and scope

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Organic or Simple

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Carpet Diem, You wear whatever hat you want that day and have project managers that are actually called “Numbers Guys”

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Sender-Receiver Models

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There may be many ways to say something. But barriers to effective communication may be present as well?? < Duh fuh is going on here??? 🤷🏽‍♂️

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CAPM

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Certified Associate in Project Management

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Laissez-faire Leadership

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A leader takes a “hands-off” approach. Can provide autonomy but people may ask, “Where the F is the PM??”

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