Chapter 2 - Framework

Question 1

What is the definition of a project?

Answer 1

Temporary. Creates a unique product, service or result

Question 2

What is Operational Work?

Answer 2

Ongoing work to support the business and systems of the organization.

Question 3

What is the definition of a Program?

Answer 3

A group of interrelated projects, managed in a coordinated way.

Question 4

What is the definition of a Portfolio?

Answer 4

A group of programs, individual projects, and related operational work to achieve a specific strategic business goal.

Question 5

What is Organizational Project Management (OPM)? What are its benefits?

Answer 5

A framework for keeping the organization focused on its overall strategy. It provides direction for how portfolios, programs, projects, and other organizational work should be prioritized, managed, executed and measured to best achieve the firm’s strategic goals.

Question 6

What is OPM3?

Answer 6

A PMI model designed to help organizations determine their level of maturity in project management.

Question 7

What is a project management office (PMO)?

Answer 7

A department that centralizes standardizes the management of projects.

Question 8

What are three possible formats for a PMO?

Answer 8

1. Supportive
2. Controlling
3. Directive

Question 9

What are project constraints/

Answer 9

Time, Cost, Risk, Scope, Quality, Resources and Customer Satisfaction. Constraints are use dot help evaluate competing demands.

Question 10

Who are project stakeholders?

Answer 10

Anyone whose interests may be positively or negatively impacted by the project.

Question 11

What are the three primary forms of organizational structure?

Answer 11

Functional
Projectized
Matrix

Question 12

What is a functional organization?

Answer 12

The organization is grouped by areas of specialization (e.g., accounting, marketing)

Question 13

What is a projected organization?

Answer 13

The organization is grouped by project. The team has no deportment to go to at project end. The project manager has total control of the resources.

Question 14

What is a matrix organization?

Answer 14

A blend of functional projected organization where the team members have two bosses (the project manager and functional manager).

Question 15

What is a strong matrix organization?

Answer 15

A matrix organization where the balance of power rests with the project manager instead of the functional manager.

Question 16

What is a weak matrix organization?

What role might the project manager play in a weak matrix?

Answer 16

A matrix organization where the balance of power rests with the functional manager instead of the Project manager.

The project manager would be a project expediter or project coordinator in a weak matrix.

Question 17

What is a balanced matrix organization?

Answer 17

A matrix organization where power is equally balanced between the project manager and the functional manager.

Question 18

What is a project-based organization?

Answer 18

A temporary framework for projects created to circumvent any obstacles inherent in the organization’s existing structure (whether functional, projected or matrix).

Question 19

What are enterprise environmental factors?

When are they used?

Answer 19

The organization’s culture and existing systems that the project will have to deal with work or can make use of.

They are used throughout the project management process.

Question 20

What are the organizational process assets?

When are they used?

Answer 20

1. Company process and procedures.
2. Historical Information.
3. Lessons learned.

They are used throughout the project management process.

Question 21

What is historical information?

Answer 21

Records of past projects, including lessons learned, used to plan him manage future projects.

Records of the current project that will become part of organizational process assets.

Question 22

What is a project management information system?

Answer 22

The automated system to submit, track changes and monitor and control project activities.

Question 23

What do lessons learned describe?

How are lessons learned used?

Answer 23

What would right, what went wrong, and what would be done differently if the project can be redone.

Used in planning the project.
Used by other projects in the future.

Question 24

What is work performance data?

Answer 24

Measurements and details about activities gathered during project work (executing).

Question 25

What is work performance information?

Answer 25

Work performance data analyzed to make sure it conforms to the project management plan and to assess what it means for the project as a whole.

Question 26

What are work performance reports?

Answer 26

Work performance information organized into reports that are distributed to stakeholders.

Question 27

What is a product life cycle?

Answer 27

The cycle of a product’s life from conception to withdrawal from the marketplace.

Question 28

What is a project life cycle?

Answer 28

What you need to do to complete the work (produce the deliverables of the project).

It varies by type of product, industry, in the organization’s preference.

Question 29

Describe a plan-driven project.

Answer 29

Has a predictive lifecycle in which the scope, schedule, and cost are determined in detail early in the life of the project, before the work begins to produce the project deliverables.

Question 30

Describe a change-driven project

Answer 30

Uses interactive, or adaptive (agile) lifecycle.

Has a dairy levels of early planning for scope, schedule, and cost.