Chapter 2

Question 1

Adaptive life cycle

Answer 1

This is a project life cycle that aniticipates many changes to the project scope and demands highly involved stakeholders. Because change happens often , change control is managed tightly by the project manager. This approach is also known as the agile project management methodology

Question 2

Balanced Matrix Structure

Answer 2

An organization where organization resources are pooled into one project team, but the functional managers and the project managers share the project power.

Question 3

Composite Structure

Answer 3

An Organization that creates a blend of the functional, matrix, and projectized structures

Question 4

Customer/User

Answer 4

The person(s) who will pay for the projects deliverables.

Question 5

Deliverable

Answer 5

A verifiable, measurable product or service created by a phase and/or project.

Question 6

Functional Structure

Answer 6

An organization that is divided into functions, and each employee has one clear functional manager. Each department acts independantly of the other department. A project manager in this structure has little to no power and may be called a project coordinator

Question 7

Influencers

Answer 7

Person who can positively or negatively influence a projects ongoing activities and/or the projects likelihood of success

Question 8

Kill Point

Answer 8

The review phase to determine if it accomplished its requirements. A kill point signals an opportunity to kill the project if it should not continue.

Question 9

Negative stakeholder

Answer 9

A stakeholder who does not want a project to succeed. He or she may try to negaitively influence the project and help it fail.

Question 10

Performing organization

Answer 10

The organization whose employees or members are most directly invloved in the project work.

Question 11

Phase

Answer 11

The logical division of a project based on the work or deliverable completed within that phase. Common examples include the phases within construction, software development, or manufacturing.

Question 12

Phase exit

Answer 12

The review of a phase to determine it it accomplished its requirements. It signals the exiting of one phase and the entering of another.

Question 13

Phase gate

Answer 13

The review of a phase to determine if it accomplished its requirements. Like a phase exit, a phase gate shows the qualifications to move from one phase to another.

Question 14

Phase-end review

Answer 14

The review of a phase to determine if it accomplished its requirements. A phase end review is also called a phase exit, a phase gate, and a kill point.

Question 15

Positive stakeholder

Answer 15

A stakeholder who wants the project to exist and succeed. He or she may try to positively influence the project to help it succeed.

Question 16

Predictive lifecycle

Answer 16

The predictive lifecycle, also call the plan driven approach, is a life cycle that “predicts” the work that will happen in each phase of the project. The project plan, time, cost, and scope are defined early in the project and predict what is to happen to the project.

Question 17

Product life cycle

Answer 17

The cycle of the product a project creates. For example a project can create a piece of software; the software then has its own life cycle until it becomes defunct.

Question 18

Project life cycle

Answer 18

The collection of phases from the start of a project to its completion.

Question 19

Project Management Office(PMO)

Answer 19

The business unit that centralizes the operations and procedures of all projects within an organization. The PMO supports the project managers through software. templates, and admninistrative support. A PMO can exist in any organizational strucure, but it is most common in matrix and projectised structures

Question 20

Project management system

Answer 20

The defined set of rules policies and procedures that a project manager follows and utilizes to complete a project.

Question 21

Project stakeholder

Answer 21

Anyone who has a vested interest in the projects operation and/or its outcome.

Question 22

Projectized structure

Answer 22

An organization that assigns a project team to one project for the duration of the project life cycle. The project manager has high to almost complete project power.

Question 23

Strong Matrix Structure

Answer 23

An organization where the organizational resources are pooled into one project team, but the functional managers have less project power than the project manager.

Question 24

Weak matrix structure

Answer 24

An organization where the organizational resources are pooled into one project team, but the functional managers have more project power than the project manager.