PT M3 - Lists (Traditional Methodologies)

Question 1

When is it recommended to use a traditional management approach?

Answer 1

• Where there is certainty about the project’s scope

- When it is possible to plan the project in the early stages of its lifecycle.

Question 2

How many processes, process groups, and knowledge areas are there in the PMBOK guide?

Answer 2

• 49 Processes grouped into 5 Process Groups

- 10 Knowledge Areas

Question 3

4 Step Process to the Order of Change Management (When requested by a key stakeholder)

Answer 3

1. Register the change request
2. Qualify and quantify the impact of the change
3. Find Alternatives to the Change
4. Take the Change Request to the Appropriate Business Level for Approval or Rejection

Question 4

4 Types of Planning

Answer 4

• Predictive Planning
• Agile/Iterative Planning
• Rolling Wave Planning
• On Demand Planning

Question 5

2 Questions to answer when you face a new project and are determining to use a traditional vs agile management approach?

Answer 5

• What are you going to do?
• How are you going to do it?

If you know the answer to these two questions, you are able to have certainty about the project. On the other hand, if you do not know the answer to either of these questions, you can say that you have uncertainty regarding the development of the project.

Question 6

3 Practices that are increasingly being used in Project Resource Management

Answer 6

• Emotional Intelligence/Emotional Quotient (EQ)
• Self-Organizing Teams
• Virtual/Distributed Teams

Question 7

2 Elements Necessary to Schedule a Project

Answer 7

• Defining Actions

- Establishing a Sequence of Actions

Question 8

4 Estimation Techniques to be Familiar w

Answer 8

• Analogous Estimation
• Parametric Estimation
• Bottom-Up Estimation
• Estimation by 3 Points/PERT

Question 9

4 Work Breakdown Structure Levels or Hierarchy

Answer 9

1. Key Deliverables (Top Level: the building, the garden, and the fence)
2. Project Deliverables (break down each key deliverable into separate deliverables)
3. Work Packages (break down each deliverable into work packages)
4. Activities/Tasks (break down each work package into activities or tasks)

Question 10

2 Intensification Techniques used to Decrease Project Durations w/out changing the project’s scope

Answer 10

• Crashing
• Fast-Tracking

Both are used to compress the project timeline without changing the project’s scope while complying with restrictions, new deadlines, or other objectives in the timeline.

Never Reduce the Scope or the Quality of the Project. These requirements are agreed with the client. Reducing them would be entirely contradictory to the project manager’s code of ethics.

Question 11

This process consists of using knowledge and creating new knowledge to achieve the project objectives and contribute to organizational learning.

This process is carried out throughout the project, using mainly these two tools…

Answer 11

The Knowledge Management Process

• Knowledge Management Tool
• Information Management Tool

Question 12

4 Communication Methods to be familiar w

Answer 12

• Push
• Pull
• Interactive
• Osmotic

Question 13

3 Actions that are types of Changes in a Project

Answer 13

• Preventative Actions
• Defect Repair Actions
• Corrective Actions

Question 14

The 4 Stages of the Tuckman’s Scale/Theory

Answer 14

1. Forming
2. Storming
3. Norming
4. Performing

Question 15

How many subsidiary plans will you have in the project management plan?

Answer 15

• 11

- 1 plan for each of the knowledge areas and 2 plans for the Scope knowledge area (Scope & Requirements)

Question 16

4 Dependency Attributes

Answer 16

• Internal
• External
• Mandatory
• Discretionary

Can only have 2 at a time

Question 17

4 Dependency Links

Answer 17

• Start to Start
• Start to Finish
• Finish to Start
• Finish to Finish