Chapter 3

Question 1

What are current industry trends project managers need to stay current on?

Answer 1

Product and technology development
New and changing market niches
Standards (project management, quality management, info security management)
Technical support tools
Economic forces that impact the immediate project
Influences affecting the project management discipline
Process improvement and sustainability strategies

Question 2

What are the three key skill sets in the PMO ale to triangle

Answer 2

Technical project management
Leadership
Strategic and business management

Question 3

What is The knowledge skills and behaviors related to specific domains of project program and portfolio management, the technical aspects of performing ones role

Answer 3

Technical project management

Question 4

What is the knowledge skills and behaviors needed to guide motivate and direct a team, to help an organization achieve its business goals

Answer 4

Leadership

Question 5

What is the knowledge of expertise in the industry and organization that enhanced performance and better delivers business outcomes

Answer 5

Strategic and business management

Question 6

What’s business knowledge also known as ?

Answer 6

Domain knowledge

Question 7

What’s a common denominator in all projects

Answer 7

People

Question 8

Top project managers spend about 90% of their time doing what?

Answer 8

Communicating

Question 9

What does politics involve?

Answer 9

Influence, negotiation, autonomy, and power

Question 10

Leadership and management are …

Answer 10

Not synonymous

Question 11

Directing another person to get from one point to another using a known set of expected behaviors

Answer 11

Management

Question 12

Working with others through discussion or debate in order to guide them from one point to another

Answer 12

Leadership

Question 13

do Project managers need to be a leader or a manger

Answer 13

Both, they need to find the perfect balance

Question 14

What are some leadership styles a project manager can adopt

Answer 14

Laissez-fairy
Transactional
Servant leader
Transformational
Charismatic
International

Question 15

What the hands off style of leadership

Answer 15

Laissez-fairs

Question 16

This leadership style you focus on goals, feedback, and accomplishment to determine rewards, management by exception

Answer 16

Transactional

Question 17

This leadership style demonstrates commitment to serve and put other people first, focuses on other people’s growth, learning, development, autonomy, and well-being, concentrates on relationships, community and collaboration;leadership is secondary and emerges after service

Answer 17

Servant leader

Question 18

This leadership style empowers followers through idealized attributes and behaviors, inspirational motivation, encouragement for innovation and creativity and individual consideration

Answer 18

Transformational

Question 19

This leadership style is able to inspire, is high energy, enthusiastic, self confident, holds strong convictions

Answer 19

Charismatic

Question 20

This refers to the individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.

Answer 20

Personality

Question 21

What is a result of complexity in projects

Answer 21

The orgs…
System behavior
Human behavior
Uncertainty at work in the .org or its environment

Question 22

What are there dimensions of complexity?

Answer 22

System behavior
Human behavior
Ambiguity

Question 23

A project is not said to be complex as complexity is based on individual perception but rather

Answer 23

A project can contain complexity

Question 24

Complexity as a characteristic or property of a project is typically defined as

Answer 24

Containing multiple pets
Possessing a number of connections between the parts
Exhibiting dynamic interactions between the parts
Exhibiting behavior produced as a result of those interactions that cannot be explained as the simple sum of the parts (emergent behavior)