Integration Flashcards
You are planning communications on a new service development project. Your stakeholder list is large, but not terribly complicated. Not all stakeholders will understand the need for developing an actual communications plan, and you already have good relationships with most stakeholders on this project. What is one of the major driving forces for communication on a project?
Optimization
Integrity
Integration
Differentiation
Integration
The customer has accepted the completed project scope. However, the lessons learned required by the project management office have not been completed. What is the status of the project?
The project is Incomplete until all project and product deliverables are complete and accepted
Your well planned project is likely to encounter a number of change requests and approved changes during its life cycle. In the change management plan, you have outlined the processes that you and others will use to understand the impacts of changes. Getting a stakeholder acceptance of the decisions related to change on this project is critical, as a failed project could impact shareholder value and the earning projections for the organization. Your attention is best focussed on which of the following regarding changes on your project?
Preventing unnecessary changes
The customer on a project tells the project manager they have run out of money to pay for the project. What should the project manager to first?
Close project or phase
All the following are parts of an effective change management plan except:
Procedures
Standards for reports
Meetings
Lessons learned
Lessons learned
A work authorization system can be used to
Manage when and in what sequence Work is done
Which of the following would be most important to include in a charter for an agile project?
Authorization for the product owner to prioritize features to maximize value
A project is plagued by requested changes to the project charter. Who has the primary responsibility to decide if these changes are necessary?
The sponsor
Effective project integration usually requires an emphasis on
Effective communication at key interface points
The project managers main responsibilities include being of service to the team, Integrating new team members as the project progresses, and ensuring that the project meets its objectives within scope, time, budget and other constraints. Which of the following best describes the project managers role as an integrator?
Put all the pieces of a project into a cohesive whole
Approved corrective actions are an input to which of the following processes?
Direct and manage project work
At various points during project execution, the project manager reviews the project charter. Which of the following best describes what a project charter maybe used for in the work has been completed?
To help determine if a scope change should be approved
Which of the following best describes a project management plan
Scope, risk, resource, and other management plans
A project management plan should be realistic in order to be used to manage the project. Which of the following is the best method to achieve a realistic project management plan?
The project manager Create the project management plan based on input from the team
You have taken over a project during project planning and have discovered that six individuals have signed the project charter. Which of the following should most concern you?
Spending more time on configuration management
To manage risk for an agile project, which of the following would you be least likely to need?
Risk management plan
The project manager is working to clearly describe the level of involvement expected from everyone on the project in order to prevent rework, conflict and coordination problems. Which of the following best describes the project managers efforts?
Develop project management plan and plan quality management
All the following are parts of the direct and manage project work process:
- Identifying changes
- Using a work breakdown structure
- Implementing corrective actions
A project manager is appointed to had a highly technical project in an area with which this person has limited familiarity. The project manager delegates the processes of develop schedule, estimate costs, define activities and estimate activity resources to various team members and basically serves as an occasional referee and coordinator of activities. The results of this approach are likely to be
A team that is characterized by poor performance, no morale, High level of conflict and high turnover
You are in the middle of leading a major modification project For an existing manufactured product when you learned that the resources promised at the beginning of the project are not available. According to your plans, these resources will be needed soon, and their unavailability will affect your timeline and possibly other aspects of the project. What is the best thing to do?
Explain the impact if the promise resources are not made available
The project manager has just received a change request from the customer that doesn’t affect the project schedule and it’s easy to complete. What should the project manager do first?
Evaluate the impacts on other project constraints
You are the project manager for an existing year long project that must be completed. Your company just won a major new project. It will begin in three months and is valued at $2 million. The new project has a greater starting value and is therefore likely to have a higher priority than your project. It may affect your resources. You are concerned about how you will manage your project so that both projects can be implemented successfully. What is the first thing you should do when you hear of the new project?
Ask management how the new project will affect your project
In the middle of the project, the project manager is informed by her scheduler that the project control limits are secure. The same morning, she receives a note from a team member about a problem he’s having. The note say‘s, “this activity is driving me crazy, and the manager of the accounting department won’t help me until the activities float is in jeopardy.“ In addition, the project manager has emails from a minor stakeholder and 14 emails from team members. While she is reading the emails, a team member walks into the project managers office to tell her a corrective action was implemented by a team member from the project management office, but wasn’t documented. What should the project manager do next?
Add the implemented corrective action to the change log, discuss the value of documentation at the next team meeting, and smooth the team members issue with the accounting department.
Which of the following sequences represent straight line depreciation?
100, 100, 100