Chapter 3 Flashcards
What are current industry trends project managers need to stay current on?
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
What are the three key skill sets in the PMO ale to triangle
Technical project management
Leadership
Strategic and business management
What is The knowledge skills and behaviors related to specific domains of project program and portfolio management, the technical aspects of performing ones role
Technical project management
What is the knowledge skills and behaviors needed to guide motivate and direct a team, to help an organization achieve its business goals
Leadership
What is the knowledge of expertise in the industry and organization that enhanced performance and better delivers business outcomes
Strategic and business management
What’s business knowledge also known as ?
Domain knowledge
What’s a common denominator in all projects
People
Top project managers spend about 90% of their time doing what?
Communicating
What does politics involve?
Influence, negotiation, autonomy, and power
Leadership and management are …
Not synonymous
Directing another person to get from one point to another using a known set of expected behaviors
Management
Working with others through discussion or debate in order to guide them from one point to another
Leadership
do Project managers need to be a leader or a manger
Both, they need to find the perfect balance
What are some leadership styles a project manager can adopt
Laissez-fairy Transactional Servant leader Transformational Charismatic International
What the hands off style of leadership
Laissez-fairs
This leadership style you focus on goals, feedback, and accomplishment to determine rewards, management by exception
Transactional
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
Servant leader
This leadership style empowers followers through idealized attributes and behaviors, inspirational motivation, encouragement for innovation and creativity and individual consideration
Transformational
This leadership style is able to inspire, is high energy, enthusiastic, self confident, holds strong convictions
Charismatic
This refers to the individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
Personality
What is a result of complexity in projects
The orgs…
System behavior
Human behavior
Uncertainty at work in the .org or its environment
What are there dimensions of complexity?
System behavior
Human behavior
Ambiguity
A project is not said to be complex as complexity is based on individual perception but rather
A project can contain complexity
Complexity as a characteristic or property of a project is typically defined as
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)
