cHATER 6 Flashcards
What is the root issue that causes roadblocks in moving projects forward?
Organizational Structure
What is the classic Organizational Structure?
Functional Organization
In which Organizational Structure is the staff organized along departmental lines, such as IT, marketing sales, network, human resources, public relations, customer support, and legal?
Functional Organization
In a Functional Organization, who is reponsible for assigning work to the employees who report to them and also reposnsible for rating the performance of the employees and determining their raises and bonuses?
Functional Managers
What are the three types of Matrix Organizations?
Strong Matrix
Weak Matrix
Balanced Matrix
Which type of Matrix Organization does the project manager have the majority of power and project work is emphasized over functional duties?
Strong Matrix
Which type of Matrix Organization does the functional manager have more power over the project manager and functional work is emphasized more than project work?
Weak Matrix
Which type of Matrix Organization has an equal emphasis between projects and funtional work? Both Functional Managers and Project Managers share power in this type of structure.
Balanced Matrix
Which Organiztional Structure is less common that the Functional or Matrix structure and focuses more on projects rather than functional wok units?
Projectorized Organization
When team members work together at the same physical location
Collocated
In which Organization Structure do Project Managers have the majority of power nad has full authority to manage the project and resources?
Projectorized Organization
All projects require what type of resources?
Human Resources
Projects that use equipment, materials, and/or supplies use what type of resources?
Physical Resources
Physical resourcse use to create the product of the project and have a high value and are resources with long life expectencies
Capital Resources
Resourcse that the company owns or employs.
Internal Resources
Resources that are acuired, leased, or contracted from outside the organization
External Resources
Resources that are an ideal scenario for project managers because you have full authority and control of the resource time and the tasks they work on.
Dedicated Resources
Recourses that works for both the Functional Manager and the Project Manager. They are often torn between their finctional work and project work.
Shared Resources
Those who have finished a project and are not yet assigned to a new project or who have time gap between the finish and start of the new project
Benched Resources
When existing employees pick up the work of those who left. A person working on multiple projects may have a burnout and leave the organization bedcause of this.
Resource Overallocation
When you need the completed deliverables from one project to work on the current project
Interproject Dependencies
You should discuss the possibility of removing dependencies wherever possible
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When your resources may be scheduled for similar tasks on other projects. You will need to work in coordination with the roject managers on those other projects to schedule the resource so that they cre available to both of you when needed.
Interproject Resource Contention
What are the life-style stages of Resourcs?
Acquisition
Maintenance
Hardware Decommissioning
End-of-life software
Successor Planning
Which stage of Resources has to do with aquiring resources
Acquisition
What examines requirements, functionality, life span, cost, and other factors?
A Needs Assessment
Which stage of Resources involves the ongoing care and feeding of the resource?
Maintenance
A proces that ensures that no data remains on the hardware before disposal or donation.
Hardware Decomissioning
When you need to determine if the data on the software needs to be retained, transfered to the new fotware system, archived, or destroyed, this is an example of _____________.
End-of-Life Software
When you begin thinking about what comes next for your hardware and software resources before they reach end of life so that you have adequate time to prepare and acquire new resources.
Successor Planning
Self-managed and self-directed teams that should consist of between 5 and 11 members.
Agile Teams
Teams that are not limited to size and are typically large. They are made up of members from all over the organization.
Waterfall Teams
Team members that are critical to the success of the project. Their expertise is required throughout the project. They will be involved from the beginning to the end of the project.
Core Team Members
Team members who come in for an assignment or two and then go back to their departments are known as __________. They will be called upon when needed throughout the project but are not committed full time.
Functional/Extended Team Members
What determines the difference between where you are now and where you want to be in the future? It is used to compare the resources you have to the resources you need.
Gap Analysis
What lists each group or individual team member on the project along with their skills, criticality, and responsibilities?
Roles and Responsibilities Document
What documents you name, your position, your boss, your boss’s boss, your boss’s boss’s boss, and so on?
Project Organization Chart
OBS
Organization Breakdown Structure
A form of organization chart that shows the departments, work units, or teams within and organization and their respective packages.
Organization Breakdown Structure
RBS
Resource Breakdown Structure
A form of organzaiton chart that breaks down the work of the project according to the types of resources needed.
Resource Breakdown Structure
RAM
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
A matrix-based chart that maps your Work Breadown Structure (WBS) elements to the required resources
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
R -
A -
C -
I -
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Responsible - for performing the work
Accountable - the one who ensures the work is completed and signs off the work
Consulted - Someone who has input to the work or decision
Informed - Someone who must be informed of the decisions or results