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Creating the Team Flashcards

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What provides a technique for measuring the efficacy of training?

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Baselining

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An experienced team member coaching a less experienced team member.

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Mentoring

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Focus on collaboration and team norms before focusing too much on __________.

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Tools

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What are some key items that a project charter details?

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  • Project purpose
  • Objectives and success criteria
  • High-level requirements
  • Inclusions, exclusions, deliverables
  • Overall project risk
  • Pre-approved financial resources
  • Key stakeholders list
  • Exit criteria
  • Assigned PM and authority level
  • Name and authority of the project sponsor
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A good team charter includes:

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  • Shared values
  • Guidelines for team communications and use of tools
  • How the team makes decisions
  • How the team resolves conflicts
  • How and when the team meets
  • Other team agreements - shared hours, improvement activities
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Using a relative measure for the level of difficulty or complexity of a feature, individuals assign story points, which are numbers in the Fibonacci sequence.

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Story Pointing

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A project document used to record knowledge gained during a project so that it can be used in the current project and entered into the lessons learned repository.

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Lessons Learned Register

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A decision-making process used by a group to reach a decision that everyone can support.

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Consensus

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__________ is an Extreme Programming (XP) technique that describes a common vision of how a program works. They should be simple and non-technical.

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Metaphors

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What tools can be used to promote visibilty and collaboration on project work?

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  • Gantt charts
  • Kanban boards
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Tasks should be identified, planned, and managed as much as possible by the __________.

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Team Members

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Negotiations for the exact parameters of a contract are generally driven by this person?

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Procurement Manager

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The project plans that are developed should describe stakeholders and the planned __________ model.

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Engagement

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What is a RACI chart?

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A responsiblity assignment matrix that defines the involvement of stakeholders in project activities.

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What plan is the training plan a part of?

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Resource Management Plan

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When a __________ is produced, each of the relevant tasks and assignees is identifed, tracked, and managed.

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WBS Dictionary

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As part of the schedule and budget, consider the __________ associated to training the project team.

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Costs

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In a __________, tasks to produce the deliverables are identified, preferably by the team members who will be performing the work.

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WBS

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List of identifed stakeholders should be reviewed and modified as __________ __________ throughout the project.

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Changes occur

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A desired end-state - a set of objectives and outcomes.

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Vision

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What are some items that a vision statement may include?

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  • Product or solution description
  • Intended users of the solution
  • Key desired objectives
  • Differentiators from competitive approaches
  • Key features and benefits
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What type of analysis can be performed to identify missing knowledge, skills, or required attributes?

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Gap analysis

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23
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__________ is ultimately measured by the ability to perform the work needed.

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Training

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24
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Identifying stakeholders tends to happen as the __________ is being developed.

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Project Charter

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What tool can be used to understand team competencies and skills and can detail project threats?

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SWOT Analysis

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During brainstorming, a __________ works with the team to identify a series of potential solutions to a given problem.

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Facilitator

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A document that enables the team to establish its values, agreements, and practices as it performs its work together.

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Team charter

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28
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What communcates the intent and vision of the project?

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Project Overview Statement

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29
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The Tuckman Ladder of Team Development lists (5) stages. What are they?

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  • Forming
  • Storming
  • Norming
  • Performing
  • Adjourning
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30
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When should training be done?

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As close to the point of solution as possible

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31
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Identifies working days, shifts, and when specific resources are made available to the project.

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Resource Calendar

32
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What are the basic needs of a virtual team?

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  • A shared goal
  • A clear purpose
  • Clarity on roles and expectations
33
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What type of teams invest in becoming more cross-functional?

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Agile

34
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Who is responsible for re-prioritizing the backlog as stories or requirements change?

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Product Owner

35
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What document is used to determine when resources are available and to identify key resource attributes such as skills and experience levels?

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Resource Calendar

36
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Groups of people with a shared goal who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting face to face.

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Virtual Team

37
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An individual, group, or organization that may affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by a decision, activity, or outcome of a project, programs, or portfolio.

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Stakeholder

38
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What is the first aspect of developing and executing a training plan?

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Identifying the required competencies

39
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What is a technique that is used to explain an overarching solution? It should describe aspects of a solution in the same way a marketer might describe product features and benefits on a box.

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Product Box Exercise

40
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What document should include team communication expectations?

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Team Charter

41
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A contract between a service provider and the end user that describes the level of service expected from the service provider.

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Service Level Agreement (SLA)

42
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__________ focuses on building individual skills to be used in the present. _________ helps develop well-rounded individuals for the future.

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Training / Mentoring

43
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Who should facilitate the creation of an initial team communication plan?

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The PM

44
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In a traditional approach, use a __________ to assign work to team members.

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WBS

45
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What are (4) prioritization techniques that can be used to determine objectives?

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  • Kano Model
  • MoSCoW (MSCW) Analysis
  • Paired Comparison Analysis
  • 100 Points Method
46
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A good __________ often provides ways that a team can improve its communication, collaboration, and use of visibility tools.

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Retrospective

47
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What are some of the benefits of communication between internal/external team members?

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  • Collaboration between stakeholders
  • Effective expectations management
48
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What are (2) calendar tools that can assist virtual teams?

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  • Shared calendars
  • Timeboxed meetings
49
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A document issued by the project sponsor/initiator that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the PM with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.

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Project Charter

50
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For times when __________ is not possible, it is helpful to have an agreed upon approach in advance.

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Consensus

51
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How team members are rewarded and recognized.

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Recognition Plan

52
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In an Agile approach, self-organizing teams assess the __________ __________ and determine who will do the work.

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Work requirements

53
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What is a unit-less estimation technique that Agile project typically use?

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Story-Points

54
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Clear expectations regarding the code of conduct for team members.

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Ground rules

55
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What are some pre-assigment tools that a PM can utilize?

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  • Attitudinal surveys
  • Specific assessments
  • Structured interviews
  • Ability tests
  • Focus groups
56
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Avoid __________ caused by a single resource having a required skill.

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Single-points-of-failure

57
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A set of individuals who support the PM in performing the work of the project to achieve its objectives.

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Project Team

58
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A timeboxed iteration in Scrum.

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Sprint

59
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What document notates the team ground rules?

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Team charter

60
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An ordered list of user-centric requirements that a team maintains for a product.

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Product Backlog

61
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What are some items that teams might negotiate?

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  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Priorities
  • Assignments
  • Deliverables
62
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When developing a team charter, the team should determine methods for facilitating knowledge sharing, including:

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  • Frequency of updates
  • Version control
    • Supporting tools and the agreed upon approach to their utilization
63
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The Resource Management Plan includes:

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  • Identification of resources
  • Acquisition of resources
  • Roles and Responsibilities
    • Roles
    • Authority
    • Responsibility
    • Competence
  • Project organization chart
  • Training strategies
  • Recognition plan
  • Physical resources (equipment)
64
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What are the (4) main tenets of PMI’s Code of Ethics?

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  • Responsibility
  • Respect
  • Fairness
  • Honesty
65
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An activity in which team members acquire new or enhanced skills, knowledge, or attitudes.

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Training

66
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Who should perform the estimating tasks?

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The people doing the work

67
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What is the Agile equivalent of lessons learned?

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Retrospective

68
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When should the PM establish expected behaviors?

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At the beginning of a project

69
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True/False - It is more important to focus on individual accomplishments.

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False - Focus on shared commitments

70
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A simple technique used to generate a list of ideas.

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Brainstorming

71
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A PM should create an environment that __________ __________ of the diversity and builds a climate of __________ __________.

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  • Takes advantage
  • Mutual trust
72
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In Agile approaches, __________ __________ can provide visibility to the project status across the stakeholder community.

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Information radiators

73
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Where is a vision statement often included?

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In the project charter

74
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Defines the project team members and their reporting relationships.

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Project Organization Chart

75
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As the project progresses, what are some documents that can reveal addtional stakeholders?

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  • Change logs
  • Issue logs
  • Requirement documents
76
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Who identifes and tracks tasks in an Agile approach?

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The team as part of iteration planning

77
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An Agile framework for developing and sustaining complex products, with specific roles, events, and artifacts.

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Scrum

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