Quiz Part 1 Flashcards
Define Project Management
Project management is not a precise science but rather as a social construction, projects construct of people.
Process steps
- Repeat process or product
- Several objectives
- Ongoing
- More homogenous
- Systems in place to integrate efforts
- Performance, time and cost known
- Part of a line organization
- Sections of established practice
- Supports status quo
Project steps (Waterfall principle)
- New process or product
- One objective
- One short - limited life
- More heterogenous
- Systems must be created to integrate efforts
- Performance, cost, and time less certain
- Outside the line organization
- Violates established practice
- Upsets status quo
Define Unique
We run the project beacuse we want to deliver something that we do not have today
Define Temporary
Finance and organization is temporary
Define Focused
Delivering a result (product or service)
Define Emergence
High level benefit known
Exact objective and means to achieve them evolve after a certain amount of work has been done
Define Uncertainty
The future is unpredictable
Define Change
Any new system impact on the way people work
Define Social Construction
People and systems of people have complex and dynamic interactions
Which are the four steps in a project model?
Initiation
Planning
Execution
Termination
In which phase is most work perfomed in a project?
In the execution phase
What is the idea behind Scrum?
It is to plan the end product together with the customer duing the project
‘Ready, fire, aim’
No planning is made, lets figure out during the way.
‘It’s all in my head’
Project manager keeps everything in her/his head, no documentation is made.
Define Objective
It is the deliverable process/product, what is handover to the customers.
Define Aim
Why are we running the project?
Always begin with the aim
Challange of Mission in MODeST
Lack of clarity of requirements
Large scale, high value, high importance, high urgency
Large number of constraints – legal, health, safety and security.
High level of interaction and interdependency with other projects.
High level of uncertainty – novelty, implications and side effects.
Challanges for Organization in MODeST
Multiple time zones project team members operating in
Lack of colocation of project team
Linguistic differences between team members
Lack of appropriate organisational structure used in the project
High level of change that the project produces in the organisation
Challenges in Delivery in MODeST
Lack of common or appropriate project management method
Inappropriate human, financial or other resources
Problematic communications in the project team
Lack of clear or timely decision-making
Lack of flexibility for the project manager to respond to changes
Challenges with Stakeholders in MODeST
Lage number of stakeholders with differing requirements
Lack of commitment to the project by key stakeholders
Interference in the project by the key stakeholders
Lack of relationships with key stakeholders
Problematic inter-relations between stakeholders
Challenges for a Team in MODeSTo
Lack of leadership by project manager
Cultural and other differences between team members
Low level of motivation of team
Lack of project, technical and business experience in the team
Lack of appropriate training for team members
