Project Managerment: Unit 3

Jo Anne is meeting her curriculum team to break down pieces of the project. At the meeting she leads her team through the process of decomposing to encompass all of the work on the project. This allows Jo Anne's team to track, define, and manage each activity. Jo Annes team is participating in:

Defining the scope 

Delores is leading a marketing project. She meets with the stakeholders to define and document all the need for the marketing project. The activity that Delores is participating in is referred to as:

Collecting requirements 

Steve is in charge of building a house and he is currently working on the project scope statement. Steve has a budget of $250,000 and six months to finish building the house. These components would be listed under what section in the project scope statement:

Project constraints 

Carmine is a wedding planner. He has created a WBS to subdivide a project into more manageable tasks. To highlight the details of the event for all vendors who are fulfilling deliverables for the wedding, he is preparing a document that describes the cost estimates, quantity, requirements, description of the work, and contract information. Carmine is working on the:

 Work breakdown structure dictionary

Mary and Bill are planning a wedding. Bill is a project manager, so they worked together to break down the wedding project into more manageable tasks, called work packages, consisting of invitations, location, flowers, catering, and the honeymoon. Next, the couple is going to create tasks for each group that they can assign  family members to manage. Which tool or technique is the couple using to break down their wedding project ?

Decomposition 

Jens team is creating the WBS for their home restoration project. Which best describes the layers that would likely be included?

Activity packages, planning packages, and work packages 

Tammy is a construction project manager. The stakeholders for this neighborhood project require the neighborhood be built within city limits so the end users will have city water. This requirement would be listed under what section in the project scope statement?

Project constraints

Peter, a project manager, meets with his client to get the client's signature at the completion of a phase of work . Which phase is the project in?

Monitoring and controlling 

Tammy is a construction project manager and is currently working on the project scope statement. The stakeholders for this neighborhood project refuse to have a community clubhouse and pool. This requirement would be listed under what section in the project scope statement?

Project exclusions 

Brian is determining the process for  handling scope change requests. Which process is Brian conducting?

 Control scope

Jackie is developing a document that will outline the methods to create and manage requirements, as well as the method used to prioritize requirements. Jackie is working on the:

 Requirements management plan 

Kristi is in charge of planning a charity event for the hospital. She wants to review the requirements of each of the stakeholders. Kristi should be reviewing which document?

Requirements traceability matrix

Sam is an event planner and is considering locations for an annual conference. He has decided to ask the board of directors to vote on two locations, so that whichever location receives over 50% of the group's support will win. Sam is using which technique to collect requirements?

Majority 

During what process is work decomposition performed?

Creating WBS

Once Jim has established a project scope baseline, he can use it to inform the development of the:

Scope statement, WBS, WBS dictionary 

Hollie is a financial project manager. Tina asks Hollie's team to produce a financial report at the end of the year that includes her company's income statement and balance sheet. When Holly's team completes the work and the deliverables are presented to Tina, Hollie asks Tina to sign off to formally accept the project deliverables. Which process is Hollie conducting?

Verifying scope 

Steve is in charge of building a house, and he is currently working on the project scope statement. Steve has collected all necessary requirements from the stakeholders. He has determined that he needs to provide three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a two car garage in a 1700 square foot house. These components would be listed under what section in the project scope statement?

Project deliverables 

Marty is in charge of managing an event for the Special Olympics. He has completed the project scope statement and requirements documentation. He is currently working on creating a graphic by breaking down all the work that needs to occur for the event. Marty is working on the:

Work breakdown structure

Del is a catering project manager in charge of a charity event. He taste tests the cupcakes made by Angela, a member of his catering team. Del determines that Angela over blended the cupcakes because the tops have risen. He asks Angela to fix the cupcakes according to the project scope before moving the cupcakes to production. Del is using which tool or technique?

Inspection

Mark is a conference event planner and is currently working on the project scope statement. He has collected all necessary requirements from the stakeholders and has determined this project will require 22 conference rooms to be occupied for three days at his conference center. He also has determined that there will need to be 2013 meals to be served to all 3000 event attendees. The rooms and meals needed for this project would be listed under what section in the project scope statement?

Project deliverables

Felicia is an event project manager. She is meeting with her conference stakeholders to ensure the scope of products delivered aligns with what was planned for in the scope baseline of the project. Which process is Felicia conducting?

Control scope

Kacie is working on a new car design for an automotive company. She is currently working on a way to analyze, document, and manage all the stakeholder requirements for the new design. Kacie is working on the:

Requirements management plan

Peter is working on a respiration project for firefighters. Before finalizing the product requirements he would like to show a working model to the firefighters at the local station to gather feedback. The technique that Peter should use to test the working model would be a:

Prototype

Carol is managing a construction project and is considering relocating her team closer to the project construction worksite. She asks the stakeholders to vote on this decision and will make the move only if they all agree to it. Carol is using which tool or technique to collect requirements?

Unanimity

Alberts team is planning an annual conference. His team has broken the conference down to registration, food, guest speakers, and venue location. Next his team is going to create tasks for each member of the group. Albert is currently working on the:

Work breakdown structure

Steve is in charge of building a house, and he is currently working on the project scope statement. Steve has listed the following: 1) we will have good weather on all workdays, so there will be no delay in the building of the house. 2) all contractors will work efficiently with each other and cause no problems or delays on the house. These would be listed under what section in the project scope statement?

Project assumptions 

Kristi is in charge of a fundraiser for the nurses committee. Krisit has completed the project scope statement and requirements documentation. She is currently working on creating a graphic by breaking down all the work that needs to occur to create the fundraiser. Kristi is working on the:

Work breakdown structure

Heather is working on a project to create a new running shoe. She is working with her stakeholders to decide the color combination for the shoe. Heather decides that they will vote, and everyone has to agree on the color combination. Heather is using which tool or technique to collect requirements?

Unanimity

Angela is meeting with town officials to determine the needs for a transportation project that she is developing. The activity that Angela is participating in is referred to as:

Collecting requirements

The project manager is using group decision making techniques in establishing requirements for the food refrigeration project. Which are the techniques she could use?

Dictatorship, majority, plurality, unanimity

Mark meets with the conference project stakeholders to determine and document that the number of rooms and meals needed for the conference aligns with the conference project objectives. Which process is MArk conducting?

Control scope

Daves team is breaking down a computer science project into work packages so they can determine milestones. Which process is Daves team participating in?

Creating WBS 

Which tool and technique will the project manager use in the process of creating  a WBS?

Decomposition

Sarah is in charge of a charity event and she is currently communicating with the catering company and  requesting work performance information regarding their progress to compare to her scope baseline. Sarah is working on which process?

Verify scope