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Project management Flashcards

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What is business process management (BPM)?

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A management approach that seeks to coordinate the functions of an organization to customer satisfaction

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Process management seeks effectiveness and efficiency though promotion of what?

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Innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology

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What are the five categories of business process management?

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Design
Modeling
Execution
Monitoring
Optimization
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What is the design phase?

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Identification of existing processes and the conceptual design of how processes should function

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What is the modeling phase?

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The introduction of variables to the conceptual design for what-if analysis

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What is the execution phase?

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The implementation of design changes and development of key indicators of success

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What is the monitoring phase?

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Information is gathered, tracked, and then compared to expected performance

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What is the optimization phase?

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The use of the monitored data and original design to refine the processes

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What are the five techniques to process management?

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Define
Measure
Analyze
Improve
Control
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Process management is also referred to as what?

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Plan
Do
Check
Act

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What are shared services?

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Redundant services that are combined and shared within a group or organization

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What are two complications of shared services?

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  1. Service flow disruption: Waste in transition, rework and duplication as well as increases in the time it takes to deliver a service
  2. Failure demand: A failure to do something or to do something right for a customer
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What is business process reengineering (BPR)?

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Techniques to help organizations rethink how work in done in order to dramatically improve customer satisfaction, etc.

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What is the difference between BPR and BPM?

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BPR seeks radical changes while BPM seems incremental changes

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What is Just-in-Time (JIT) management?

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Achieves efficiency by scheduling the deployment of resources just in time to meet customer or production requirements

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What are costs of quality?

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Costs associated with activities related to conformance with quality standards and opportunity costs or activities associated with correcting nonconformance with quality standards

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What are conformance costs?

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The cost of ensuring conformance with quality standards:
1. Prevention: Costs incurred to PREVENT the production of defective units: (Employee training, inspection, redesign…)

  1. Appraisal: Costs incurred to discover and remove defective parts before they are shipped – DETECTIVE BEFORE ( Statical quality check, testing, inspection, maintenance )
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What are nonconformance costs?

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The cost of nonconformance with quality standards:
1. internal failure cost: The cost to cure a defect discovered before the product is sent (Rework cost, scraps, tooling changes, downtime..)

  1. external failure cost: The cost to cure a defect discovered after the product is sent (warranty cost, cost of returning, liability claims, reengineering an external failure)
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What is total quality management (TQM)?

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An organizational commitment to customer focused performance that emphasizes quality and continuous improvement

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What are the seven critical factors of TQM?

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Customer focus
Continuous improvement
Workforce involvement
Top management support
Objective measures
Timely Recognition
Ongoing training
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What is a quality circle?

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Small groups of workers that use team approaches to process involvement

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What are quality audits?

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Techniques used as part of the strategic positioning function in which management assesses the quality practices of the organization

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What is gap analysis?

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The determination of the difference between industry best practices and the organization’s current practices

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What is lean manufacturing?

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The use of only those resources required to meet the requirements of the customer, reduce waste.

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What is the theory of constraints(TOC)?

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Organizations are impeded from achieving objectives by the existence of one or more constraints

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What are the five steps of TOC?

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Identification
Exploitation
Subordinate everything else to the above decisions
Elevate 
Return to step one
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What is a project?

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A temporary undertaking intended to produce a unique service, product, or result

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What are the five major processes of project management?

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Authorization
Planning
Implementation
Monitoring
Closing
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What is a project charter?

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A document that contains a business justification to fulfill the needs and expectations of initial stakeholders by carrying out a statement of work that will achieve the project objectives

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What is planning?

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All of the activities necessary to determine the scope of the project, refine the project objectives, and define the course of action required to attain the project objectives

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What is implementation?

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Activities that are associated with completing the work that has been specified in the project plan and producing the deliverables

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What is monitoring?

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Procedures that are performed to observe project execution so that potential problems can be identified in a timely manner and corrective action can be taken to ensure completion

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What is an executive steering committee?

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A committee that directs a project but does not manage on a daily basis

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What are organizational process assets?

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Institutional lessons learned from previous projects, project files, organizational and project process controls

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What is scope management?

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Managing all of the work required to complete to complete a project and nothing else

The attributes of the product, service, or result

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What is a scope baseline?

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The formal written statement describing both the end product (product scope) and the project scope

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What is a cost baseline?

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The amount of money that is expected to be spend on a project

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What is parametric estimation?

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A technique that relies on a statistical relationship between historical cost and other variables

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What is analogous estimation?

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The cost of similar sized projects conducted in the past used to approximate the cost of the current project

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What is work breakdown structure estimation?

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WBS activity is estimated and then the costs of each WBS activity are aggregated to form the project budget

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What is a three point estimation?

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A range of cost estimates based on a most likely assumption of project costs

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What terms can identify the quality of deliverables?

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Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Relevant 
Time based
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What is a project manager?

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A person responsible for project administration on a day to day basis

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What is a project member?

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People who perform the project tasks

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Who is a project sponsor?

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An individual at the executive level of management who is responsible for allocating funding and resources to the project

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