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Project Management Principles Flashcards

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Serves as a foundational guideline for strategy, decision making and problem solving.

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Principles

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Provide project management guidance for the behaviour of people involved in projects.

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Principles

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Can be adopted by an individual or profession to establish expectations for moral conduct. PMI is based on four values 
Responsibility
Respect
Fairness
Honesty
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Code of ethics

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Which kind of project team environment is it best to create

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Collaborative

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Based on the 12 principles of project management, what is it best to focus on ?

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Value

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According to the 12 principles, in what state should the stakeholders be kept ?

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Engaged

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According to the 12 principles, which behaviour should be demonstrated ?

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Leadership

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According to the 12 principles, what should be built into processes and deliverables?

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Quality

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According to the 12 principles, what should be done to achieve the envisioned future state of the complany.

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Enable change

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The act of taking care of or managing something. For example, property, an organization, money or valuable objects.

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Stewardship

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Which quality is a steward displaying if he behaves honestly and ethically ?

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Integrity

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12
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Who realizes projects ?

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Project teams

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Something that affect project teams and that represents a set of behavioral patterns.

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Team agreements

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Something that project teams define and that enables the completion of tasks and work assignments.

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Processes

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Which kind of project team environment promotes the free exchange of information and individual knowledge ?

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Collaborative

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In which state should the stakeholders be kept?

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Engaged

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Who can affect the following aspects of a project: scope, schedule, cost, project team, plans, outcomes, culture, benefits realization, risk, quality, success

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Stakeholders

18
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Defining how, when, how often, interpersonal skills, initiative, integrity, honesty, collaboration, respect, empathy, confidence all help to do what ?

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Effectively engage stakeholders

19
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Minimizing potential negative impacts and maximize positive impacts are reasons to do what ?

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Engage stakeholders

20
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Ultimate indicator of project success. Can be realized throughout the project. Can be defined in quantitative or qualitative terms. Project teams evaluate progress and adapt to maximize it.

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Value

21
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Contains at least these supporting and interrelated elements:
business need
Project justification
Business strategy

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Business case

22
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The worth, importance or usefulness of something. Some organization will see more of it for the same product or deliverable.

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Value

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Entails recognizing, evaluating and responding to the dynamic circumstances within and surrounding the project in a holistic way to positively affect project performance. Entails holistic view of how project parts interact with each other and with external systems. Constantly changing. Allows leveraging positive outcomes.

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System interactions

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A single change can create several impacts. Requires system thinking to be evaluated.

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System interactions

25
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Demonstrate and adapt behaviours to support individual needs. Promote project success and contribute to positive project outcomes. Different people are motivated by different things. Demonstrate desired behavior in areas of honesty, integrity and ethical conduct.

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Leadership

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Necessary to motivate people toward a common goal, inspire them to align their individual interests in favor of collective effort and achieve success as a project team rather than as individuals.

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Leadership

27
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What is the single key to good project success ?

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Good leadership

28
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What may happen if the team isn’t motivated or is being poorly managed ?

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Project failure

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??? is about meeting the acceptance criteria for deliverables.
Project ??? is about satisfying stakeholders’ expectations and fulfilling project and product requirements.
Stakeholders will have to maintain a focus on ??? that produces deliverables that meet project objectives and align to the needs set forth by stakeholders.

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Quality

30
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??? may have several different dimensions, including but not limited to the following
Performance
Conformity
Reliability
Resilience
Satisfaction
Efficiency
Sustainability
Teams measure ??? using metrics and acceptance criterias.
Any product or service that doesn’t have good ??? will go out of business or will not be bought.

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Quality

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??? is the outcome of human behaviour, system interactions, uncertainty and ambiguity.

??? can arise at any point during the project.

Project teams can stay vigilant in identifying elements of ??? and use a variety of methods to reduce the amount or impact of ???.

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Complexity

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SOme of the more common sources of ??? are : 
Human behaviour
System behaviour
Uncertainty and ambiguity
Technological innovation
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Complexity

33
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A ??? is an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, can have a positive or negative effect on one or more objectives.
Project teams seek to maximize positive ??? (opportunities) and decrease exposure to negative ??? (threats).
??? are adressed continually throughout the project.

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Risk

34
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??? responses should be:
Appropriate for the significance of the ???
Cost effective
Realistic whithin the project context
Agreed to by relevant stakeholders and 
Owned by a responsible person
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Risk

35
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111 is the ability to respond to changing conditions.

222 is the ability to absorb impacts and to recover quickly from a setback or failure.

Build 111 and 222 into the organization’s and project teams approaches.

A focus on outcomes rathers outputs facilitates 111.

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111 = adaptablility
222 = resiliency
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Prepare those impacted for the acceptance to go from the current state to the intended future state created by the project output.

??? can originate from internal influences or external sources. Enabling ??? can be challenging as not all stakeholders embrace ???

Attempting too much ??? in a short time can to to ??? fatigue and/or resistance.

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Change

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Effective ??? management uses a motivational strategy rather than a forceful one.

Knowing and addressing the needs of stakeholders to embrace ??? throughout the project life cycle helps to integrate the resulting ??? in the project work, making a successful outcome more likely.

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Change

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