Roles and Organizations Flashcards

1
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Functional Manager

A

Control and provide resources to PM’s

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2
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Operations Management

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Manage an organizations day to day activities

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3
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Project management activities

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scheduling, cost, budgeting, risk issues and change management

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4
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Does project expediter have decision making capabilities?

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NO and they are apart of the project when they dont have a full team

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5
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Sponsor

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Responsible for providing resources and support on the project. Senior management SUPPORTs the sponsor

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6
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Project team members

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Analysts, programmers, technical writers, construction personnel and testers

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7
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Can stakeholders be members of the project team?

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YES

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8
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Who does senior management support?

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Sponsor, project charter, and the project

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9
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How does senior management support?

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Assists with prioritizing items and coordinating with other groups

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10
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PM Leadership Skills

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Resilience, critical thinking, negotiation, communicating effectively, problem solving, and interpersonal skills

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11
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Actor

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Representative aka a customer

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12
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Agile coach

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Experienced leader who directs the team to Agile

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13
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Business owner

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Scrum role that exists outside of the team that represents management; sponsor, lead, stakeholder or owner of the project

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14
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Core team (Agile)

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Sponsor, project management, developers, quality assurance ppl, architecture experts, product manager, business knowledge experts

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Customer (Agile)

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Creates the vision, creating or prioritizing user stories and the product backlog, writing acceptance tests and accepting completed work (purchaser or user)

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16
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Developer

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Programmer

17
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Portfolio owner (Agile)

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The person responsible for the strategy, vision, and execution of a portfolio

18
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Product Owner

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Manages the vision, ROI, backlog and authority to MAKE DECISIONS

19
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Programmer-Coach

A

Senior programmer that guides the team in applying XP practices

20
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Scribe

A

The person who documents meetings and modeling sessions

21
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Scrum team

A

Ppl who do the work of the sprint

22
Q

Scrummaster

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SERVANT leader and facilitator who makes sure the Scrum process is followed, is positive, and improving

23
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Servant leader

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Leader who is focused on what the team needs, removing roadblocks, and performing tasks that will support and improve team productivity

24
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Sprint team

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Product owner, developers, scrummaster and testers

25
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Subject matter expert

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Person who has deep, specialized knowledge of a subject

26
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Organizational structures

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Functional, weak matrix, balanced matrix, strong matrix, projectized, multi-divisional

27
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Functional

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Operations where people of a similar skill set are grouped together and managed by someone with the same skill set

28
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What is a functional org main focus?

A

Operations and daily repetitive activities, then projects

29
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Matrix drawback

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Team member may report to more than one manager, which can conflict priorties

30
Q

Who controls the project in a Weak Matrix?

A

Functional manager

31
Q

Roles in a Balanced matrix

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Functional manager controls resources and PM delivers project results

32
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Who controls the project in a strong matrix?

A

Project manager

33
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Projectized

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Primary focus in the PROJECT

34
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Who controls the project in an organic organization?

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Owner

35
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Who controls the project in a virtual organization?

A

Mixed

36
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Hybrid organization

A

Agile and waterfall. Everything is mixed

37
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PMO

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High authority and project manager controls the project