Project Management

Question 1

Why is Good Project Management essential?

Answer 1

Its essential as its crucial as to whether the project stays on budget and on schedule or not

Question 2

What does Risk Management involve?

Answer 2

Identifying and Assessing project risks to find out the probability of risks occurring and the consequences if the risk was to happen. You should always make plans to avoid, manage or deal with risks if they were to arise

Question 3

What does people management involve?

Answer 3

Choosing the right people to work on a project and organizing the team and its working environment

Question 4

What are the 3 personality types for individuals within a team?

Answer 4

• Social-oriented: Motivated by working with other team members
• Self-oriented: Motivated by self success and recognition
• Work-oriented: Motivated by the work itself as they enjoy what they’re doing

Question 5

True or False, everyone in the team should have the same motivation and the same skills

Answer 5

False, a team should have a diverse set of group members with different skills and different motivations

Question 6

True or False, Good communication is crucial to the success of a software project

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or False, should customer expectations be managed?

Answer 7

True, customers expectations must be managed as you can’t physically see the progress of a software project

Question 8

What are the 3 criteria for successful Software Project Management?

Answer 8

• Project must be delivered on time
• Project must stay within budget
• Software has to meet the expectations of the customer

Question 9

What are the 3 Universal Management Activities?

Answer 9

• Project Planning
• Risk Management
• People Management

Question 10

What are two activities done by the Project Manager?

Answer 10

• Writing proposals to win contracts
• Reporting the progress of the team developing the project

Question 11

What are the processes of Risk Management?

Answer 11

Identify Risk, Risk Analysis, Risk Planning and Risk Monitoring

Question 12

What is a Risk Register?

Answer 12

A document collating the risk management processes used

Question 13

What are the 5 Risk Identification Types?

Answer 13

Tech Risks
People Risks
Organizational Risks
Requirements Risks
Estimation Risks

Question 14

Name the 4 strategies that can be used for Risks

Answer 14

Risk Avoidance
Risk Acceptance
Risk Transference
Risk Mitigation

Question 15

What factors need to be considered when managing people?

Answer 15

People are the most important asset to an organization, managers need to understand people as their tasks are all people oriented and poor people management is an important contributor to project failure

Question 16

Why may it not be possible to assemble a ‘dream team’?

Answer 16

The budget may not allow for experienced members, experienced staff members may be working on different projects and the organization may want to train less experienced employees on the project

Question 17

True or False, Interaction-oriented people are very important on a project

Answer 17

True, necessary to defuse tensions that arise

Question 18

What are Informal Groups?

Answer 18

Informal Groups are when the groups act as a whole and the only responsibility of a leader is to manage external communications.

Question 19

What do all group members have to be within an informal group to be successful?

Answer 19

Experienced

Question 20

What are the 4 different levels of the Human Needs Hierarchy?

Answer 20

• Physiological Needs
• Safety Needs
• Social Needs
• Esteem Needs

Question 21

True or False: Group size, group structure, group composition, and the physical work environment are all factors that influence the effectiveness of group communication?

Answer 21

True