execution flashcard
Test used to measure Individual skills
Skill Assesment
Can problem solving be used to optimize?
No, it is for issues
Steps for effective meetings
- Prep and distribute agenda 2. Ensure that meets start and end at the published time 3. ensure to invite appropiate participants 4. stay on topic 5. Manage Expectations– Issues and Conflicts during the meet 6. Record all actions
What is product review meeting?
- Emerging practice to review what has been executed so far with the relevant stakeholder 2. Can be with external or Internal
This type of diagram shows how many results where generated by each identified cause– but it does not have branches
Paretto
What INPUTs are necessary to execute risk plan
- Plan 2. Risk Register and Report
If you are a new PM. what would you choose to see the technology used for collaborating with others in the project? Options A) Project Mgmnt Plan B) Stakeholder Engagment Plan
A. because the engagment plan identifies the strategies and actions required to promote the productive involvment of stakeholders.
Type of unprocessed and out-of-context data
Work performance data
What is included in the risk register? (4)
- Risk owner
- agreed responses
- contingency plan triggers
What are the outputs of quality management process?
Quality reports Test and evaluation documents
Test used to measure project team skills
Team performance assesment
Can social media be used as a platform for project communication
Yes. Although some companies may not allow it
When selecting vendors…. Who has higher level of input? Procurement manager with past experience projects. reliability scores and contract dealings vs The project team scores with high Technical scores Why ?
Procurement…. Because you need to evaluate more than just technical…. Expert judgment can be used when selecting partners
This type of diagram breakes causes for problems into descrete branches to help you id the Root cause
Why-why or Ishikawa or fishbone
Cause and effect…. Same as Fishbone …or why-why
what is Ishikawa diagram?
How to assess personal prefernces?
With Interviews… ONE on ONE
_____ IS A TECHNIQUE OF MANAGE QUALITY WHEREBY A PERSON FOLLOWS CERTAIN TECHNICAL GUIDELINES THAT MAY BE APPLIED DURING THE DESIGN OF A PRODUCT FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF A SPECIFIC ASPECT OF THE DESIGN
DESIGN FOR X
This is an output of control quality. it is used to analyze and evaluate the quality of the process and whether they meet the standards
Quality control messurements
What is Team Assesment?
support development team process may provide overall strengths and weakness of the team.
Is management reserve included in cost baseline?
No. but it is part of the overal project budget
Document that contains the skills or required certifications for the team members.
Resource breakdown structure
Estatus of deliverables– implementation status for CR– forecast estimates to complete– and typically not shared with stakeholders
Work performance information
What are the input of quality management process?
- Quality Metrics 2. Quality Control Measurements 3. Risk Report
What type of diagram? Is usefull to determine if ressults are accurate and precise?
Control chart
Document output of acquire resource process that is also updated in develop and manage team processes?
Project Team Assignments
What are ability tests? And What does not provide
provides insights into individual competencies NOT preference and aspirations
Describe Tornado diagram
bar chart for sensitivity analysis compares the importance (relative) of different variables
Determines which risk has the most impact
Document that describes how project or product attribute and how it is verified by quality control process
Quality metrics
What tools/techniques are accepted to IMPLEMENT risk plan
- Interpersonal – Influence 2. Data analysis – Exp judgment meets PIMs
Is Control resources an execution activity or monitoring/controling one?
Execution
What type of diagram? Determines if process is stable?
Control chart
Describe collocation
gather project team in the same physical location
Is contingency reserve included in cost baseline?
Yes
Document output of acquire resource process that is an input for CONTROL resources
Physical resource assignments
Informaiton crafted specifically for stakeholders as identified in the comm plan
Work performance reports.
What is Manage Quality process?
- Translates quality managment plan into executable activities 2. Increases probability of meeting quality objectives 3. Helps you to identify ineffective processes and causes of poor quality by using data and results of control quality
Single tools for control quality
stat sampling check list control charts Testing product evaluation
What are the differences and similarities between resource leveling and resource smoothing?
Leveling changes date while smoothing does not
Leveling> is used when limits on the availability of resources are paramount. It simply answers the question ‘With the resources available, when will the work be finished?’.
Smoothing> The objective is to complete the work by the required date while avoiding peaks and troughs of resource demand. A smoothed resource profile will be achieved by delaying some work. This will remove some flexibility from the schedule and its ability to deal with unavoidable delays, but the advantage is usually a more efficient and cost-effective use of resources.
Displays RAW observations and measurements identified during project work
Work performance data
In which process do I determine if the quality management plan is effective?
Manage Quality
What type of diagram? “graph that tracks the relationship between 2 variables”
scatter diagram
What is the key benefit of stakeholder management process?
allows to increase support and minimize the resistance of stakeholders. Therefore increases the probability of success
If you are having conflict with your team in addition to having issues controlling your temper. What do you need to do first
Develop emotional intelligence
Which document has the risk response
Risk register
What document contains nontechnical requirements with contractual and legal implications such as intellectual and property rights among others.
What document should you use if you have not selected the vendor
Requirement Documentation or PSOW Contract
For #2 Requirement Documentation.
*** You can not have a contract without a vendor selected.
What is the order of things in the conduct of the procurement proccess.
- PSOW or contract
- BIDDING
- REQUIREMENTS
- SELECTIONS
- Requirements
- Bidding
- Selections
- Contract.
What process obtains seller responses, selects a seller and awards a contract?
Manage procurements
Can the PM sing legal agreements?
No. needs to be an authorized signer.
Nominal dollars = ??
Contrary to?
Actual dollars
Net present value.
EAC Formula based on BAC
Variables are
AC, BAC, EV, CPI, SPI
EAC = AC + (BAC - EV) / (CPI*SPI)
What is Formula #1 To calculate Earned value
EV = ?
From AC and CPI
EV =AC X CPI
COST VARIANCE FORMULA GIVEN
CV, EV, AC
CV = EV - AC
EAC FORMULA
GIVEN EAC, BAC, CPI
WHERE WOULD THIS BE USED?
EAC = BAC / CPI
* RE-ESTIMATE BUDGET.
ESTIMATED TO COMPLETE FORMULA GIVEN
EAC, AC
ETC = EAC - AC
if you are the pm,
Between building the RACI for your engineers and Conducting a team / individual assessments what goes first.
Building a RACI since the assessments are part of developing while RACI is part of acquiring. RACI can be updated there.
In which process do you conduct the LESSON LEARNED?
In which management group is this?
Manage project knowledge
- In execution
true or false
Critical path can be fast tracked
True.
In an Agile project,
How do you best manage quality?
- A. Project retrospectives*
- B. Quality Audits*
Project retrospectives.
Which of the following type of questions ilustrates the active listening skill
a. Thank you for bringing that up. Good catch
b. When you said you could not tell if the app was doing anything, Did you mean that the page took too long to respond to your click?
c. It sounds like you are looking for the page transition in a loading animation to show that the system is working on it, Am I ok?
c.
Needs to be a Yes/No question
