Progress Test Practice Areas Flashcards
What are the disadvantages of a matrix structure?
Managers always in meetings
Employees confused by reporting to two managers
Difficult for specialists to appraise performance of another from other discipling
Project managers reluctant to impose authority
Managers will need to be able to resolve interpersonal frictions
Lack of clear responsibility
What happens in the post completion audit?
Assessing costs against plan, examining team and relationships, examining risk management
If there is high cooperativeness and assertiveness what is it?
Collaborating
If there is high cooperativeness and low assertiveness what is it?
Accomodating
What is the middle ground on cooperativeness and assertiveness?
Compromising
If there is high assertiveness and low cooperativeness what is it?
Competing
If there is low assertiveness and cooperativeness what is it?
Avoiding
What is a shaper in Belbin’s team roles?
Committed to task, aggressive and challenging, anxious and dominant extrovert
What is a company worker in Belbin’s team roles?
Turns ideas into specifics, Practical and efficient
What are the nine project management knowledge areas (PMBOK)?
Integration
Scope
Time
Cost
Quality
Human Resource
Communication
Risk
Procurement
What is the five steps in the project life cycle?
Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, Closing
What are intrinsic rewards?
Arise from the performance of the job.
e.g. being interested in job, allowed to make decisions, satisfaction in work
What are extrinsic rewards?
Dependant on decision of others
e.g. Working conditions, Pay, Pension, Medical Insurance
What are the PRINCE2 process areas?
Starting a project
Initiation
Managing stage boundaries
Controlling a stage
Managing product delivery
Project closure
What is the aim of negotiation?
Implement agreement between two parties