Chapter 1 Flashcards
1
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1.2 What is a project?
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- create a unique product, service, or result
- temporary
- beginning and end
- doesn’t have to be strategic
- progressively elaborated
2
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1.3 Five process groups
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- Initiating
- Planning
- Executing
- Monitoring and controlling
- Closing
3
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1.3 7 project contraints
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- Time
- Cost
- Scope
- Quality
- Customer Satisfaction
- Risk
- Resources
4
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8 Interpersonal skill
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- Leadership
- Motivation
- Team Building
- Trust building
- Influencing
- Conflict Management
- Coaching
- Political and Cultural awareness
5
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What do you need to be a good PM?
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- Knowledge - pm
- Performance
- Personal skills
6
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OPM
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Organizational Project Management
7
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Organizational Project Management
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A strategic framework to use and guide … portfolios, programs, and projects … to deliver organizational strategy
8
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Portfolio
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- Consists of programs, projects, and operational work to achieve a specific operational goal
- linked to a business goal
- Prioritizes them
- helpful to be related but it doesn’t have to
9
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Program
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Group of projects that are closely linked and related. It focuses on the inter-dependencies between the projects.
10
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Types of PMOs
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- Supportive
- Controlling
- Directive
11
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Supportive PMO
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- Provides policies, methodologies, templates and lessons learned.
- Low level of control over projects
12
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Project Charter
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- project requirements
- high-level schedule
- assigns a project manager
- authorizes the project
13
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Types of Organizational Structures
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- Functional
- Matrix
- Projectized
14
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Controlling
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- Provides guidance and templates
- They will audit your work
- Prioritize projects
- Moderate level of control
15
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Directive
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- Team of PMs
- Assign out the projects
- High level of control
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