Project performance appraisals are different from team performance assessment in that project performance appraisals focus on?
A. Reducing staff turnover
B. A Team building effort
C. How each team member is performing on the project
D. An evaluation of the project team’s effectiveness
Organizational process assets are an input to all of the following Stakeholder Management processes EXCEPT:
A. Identify Stakeholders
B. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
C. Plan Stakeholder Engagement
D. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
Due to the unexpected release of a similar product from a competitor, the Widgets International executive team has stepped up the pressure on the product team to release the Widget product 3 months earlier. The project manager uses what technique to shorten the schedule but maintain the project scope?
A. Schedule compression
B. Rolling wave planning
C. Schedule network analysis
D. Schedule management planning
A project manager is just finishing a project that has not gone well. Apart from cost overruns and schedule overruns, there have been a lot of quality defects and the project required a lot of senior management intervention to finally reach completion. The project manager should now:
A. Focus on closing the project and moving on to the next one. Lessons learned is not applicable to this project since it has done badly
B. Focus on presenting the data in positive light while ensuring that the reasons for the delays and problems are appropriately documented.
C. Mask bad data and only present good data since his performance appraisal will otherwise be impacted.
D. Document lessons learned from the project and update the lessons learned knowledge database.
A project can be authorized by any of the following except:
A. The project manager
B. The PMO
C. The sponsor
D. The portfolio steering committee
What is the best way to show, at a glance, all the work packages or project activities assigned to a specific organizational department?
A. Organizational Breakdown Structure
B. RACI chart
C. Work Breakdown Structure
D. Roles and Responsibilities Chart
Jane is a project manager managing a global project. She has stakeholders located in various parts of the globe. Due to the nature of the project, she also has large volumes of information that needs to be shared with the recipients. What type of communication method should she prefer for this purpose?
A. Pull communication
B. Push communication
C. Request based communication
D. Interactive communication
What is the critical path for this project?
A. 19 days
B. 20 days
C. 21 days
D. 23 days
Which statement is NOT true about the configuration management system?
A. The configuration management system doesn’t include change tracking system.
B. It documents the functional and physical characteristics of a product.
C. The configuration management system is a sub-component of the overall project management system.
D. The configuration management system will define procedures to control any changes.
Sam, a senior project manager, is using a lessons learned knowledge management system to document the findings in a precision instrument manufacturing project. He is using the information from his team which has identified causes of product quality variance using a control chart and the details regarding corrective actions chosen to reduce the variance and improve the product quality. Which of the following should Sam use to add this information to the lessons learned?
A. Organizational process assets in the quality control process
B. The process improvement plan in the plan quality process
C. Organizational process assets in the quality assurance process
D. The process improvement plan in the quality control process