Project Management: Unit 2

Rhonda was just assigned to be project manager over a five year data management project that started last year. What document will help her become familiar with how the project is being executed, monitored and controlled, and closed?

project management plan

Louise is signing off on the sale agreement paperwork so she can receive payment for the real estate project. What process is Louise undergoing?

project close

Which activity must happen before a project can official close?

the customer must formally accept the project

A project manager has discovered that a project is outside of the original scope. The project manager has requested a change to bring expected future performance of the project work back in line with the project management plan. What type of change implementation has the project manager requested?

corrective action

Jen company requires her to close out any contracts with outside vendors and perform a lessons learned activity with her team beofre releasing all resources for other projects. This output is commonly referred to as:

closure

Christian is a project manager and would like to gain an understanding of the customers needs;, the budget, and the milestones needed to achieve the project objectives. Which should he review?

project charter

A team is developing the project charter and is determining the valuable inputs used for completing the project. The input that the team should least likely consider when developing the project charter would be the:

project management plan

Rodney is trying to prove to his parents that a college degree will be worth the investment To justify the cost of the college degree, he prepares a document highlighting why the college degree us needed and the benefits to him once he completes the degree. The document Rodney is preparing is a:

business case

Jen is a construction project manager. Her current project has been halted due to a shortage in the semand for housing. The housing shortage impact on the success of the project can be referred to as:

enterprise envrionmental factors

Luke and his team have been working on a new home construction project. The scope statement originally included a three bedroom and two bathroom ranch style home. The customer called and asked to have a small shed built in the backyard with extra materials left from the home construction. This uncontrolled expansion without adjustments to time, cost, and resources is referred to as:

scope creep

Stephanie is documenting the successes and failures of her teams project. This information will be used to inform future projects and is referred to as:

lessons learned

Mary would like to add extra windows to the sunroom project she is having built in her home. The extra windows were left out of the description she provided when the project began. What should Mary do next?

submit a change request

A couple is planning a wedding. They began to discuss and write down the details of the wedding project. They determine a price they are willing to pay for the invitations, photographer, and food. They also write down that they would like an outdoor wedding ceremony. What is the couple creating for their wedding project?

statement of work

John is planning his wedding. He has never been married and seeks input from his sister, Lauren. Lauren owns her own wedding planning business. John is using which tool and technique to guide his wedding project.

expert judgment

As a construction compays project manager, Elizabeth leads a team that is painting a house. She agreed with the homeowner to apply two coats of paint to each room. After the second day of the project, the homeowner pulls Elizabeth aside and asks her to instead put one coat of paint on the walls and a third coat of paint on the trim work. This is an example of project:

scope creep

A customer wishes that her website could display a Twitter feed based on the user login, an option excluded from the project scope. Glenn, the project manager for the website team, works extra hours outside his normal schedule to add this feature without charging more money. He is doing this to impress the customer, because hse will renew the contract funding next month. The extra functionality that Glenn is adding outside of the project scope is:

gold plating

Trey creates a project charter for a birthday party he is hosting. In his catering order, he requests three items:

1. A three layer choclate cake with raspberry filling and buttercream frosting

2. a dozen sugar cookies

3. a carafe of french roast coffee

The catering manager would refer to the cake, cookies, and coffes as the project:

deliverables

A customer calls the project manager and informs her of a minor change to a requirement on the project. What is the first thing that the project manager should do?

ask the customer to provide a change request

Amy has recently completed her newest graphic novel that has taken more than two years to write. The only deliverable included in the project scope statement was a twelve chapter illustrated novel. Her publisher was so excited about the story that he has asked for Amy to convert the book into a screenplay. This uncontrolled expansion without adjustments to time, cost, and resources is referred to as:

scope creep

Petrina is the sponsor of a time sensitive project that must deliver the expected output on a specific date or her organization will face severe penalties. Her expectation at the initiation of the project is to have a detailed report of the project status every friday throughout the project. On the third status check, the project manager lacks that information. What output is the project manager missing?

deliverables

Carol develops a detailed description of the project objectives, assumptions, deliverables, and cost for her construction project charter. The narrative desciption of the project deliverables that she is developing is a:

statement of work

Which tool or technique would be useful when developing the project charter?

expert judgment

“The magazine will feature 10 items and will be completed over six months. The cover will be printed in color. The bound pages will be printed in black and white.” This description belongs in the graphic design project:

statement of work

An employee has been asked to evaluate a project that is experiencing some performance challenges. She asked the project manager to call a meeting with the project sponsor. The project manager replies that he does not know who the project sponsor is. The employee decides to review the intial project document. Which document should she request?

project charter

Brian would like to purchase his first home. He is unsure of the inputs needed to help him manage the details of this project. He sets up an appointment with his Uncle Joe, who has owned many real estate properties and is very familiar with the process, to discuss his home buying project. Which tool or technique is Brian using for input into his home purchase project?

expert judgment

Anu is a project manager for a construction company building a new home for Mia. After two weeks of the project, Mia comes to Anu and asks for an additional bedroom to be added to the home project. Anu tells Mia that they will need to meet to discuss the project. This is known as:

change control

Angela is a project manager leading a curriculum project. She is working with her team to create an interior design curriculum project for students in her state. Which project management process is Angela performing?

exectution

Lauren is a project manager who is determining the need for a curriculum project. She is researching the job market to make a business case for the project. Which project management process is Lauren performing.

initiation

Angela is a project manager who leads a curriculum project. She is creating an outline of what each tem member needs to complete by when to ensure the deliverable is on time, under budget, and within the scope of the project. Which project managerment process is Angela performing?

planning

Eugene holds a meeting with his project team to discuss and document what succeeded and failed in their recent project. What process is Eugene facilitating.

lessons learned

George has described a project to rebuild an antique car. He has defined how much of his personal money he has saved to spend on this project. Kelly will be leading a team that will be executing the deliverables for the project. Whoc can approve the project?

project sponsor

A project manager is implementing a variety of apporved changes to a project. Which would least likely be a type of approved change?

lessons learned

After discovering that some project work failed to be perfomed according to plan, a project manager analyzes the situation. She then presents what needs to occur to correct the problems to Austin. Austin requests a change in the project to reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks. What type of change request is Austin making?

preventative action

Delores has just been asigned to be a project manager of a team and she would like to find out more about a project. She is unsure of who can authorize the project. What document should Delores consult?

project charter

Cheryl is a project mager leading a conference project. She prepares a document that described the products and services to be delivered by her team to the stakeholders. She will use this document during the initaition phase to highlight the conference project objectives, assumptions, schedule, and price. What document is Cheryl preparing?

statement of work

Alan had just been assigned as the project manager for a software development project his company has been awarded. He has been asked to create the project charter and send it to the project sponsor for approval. The main input he needs to devleop the proejct charter is the project statement of work. What should Alan do to obtain the project statement of work?

contact the project sponsor or the customer for the statement of work