Chapter 3: The Project Management Process Groups M/C

_____ processes include defining and authorizing a project or project phase.

Initiating

____ processes include devising and maintaining a workable scheme to ensure that the project addresses the organization's needs.

Planning

Examples of _____ processes include acquiring and developing the project team, performing quality assurance, distributing information, managing stakeholder expectations, and conducting procurements.

Executing

A common _____ process is reporting performance, where project stakeholders can identify any necessary changes that may be required to keep the project on track.

Monitoring and controlling

Administrative activities, such as archiving project files, closing out contracts, documenting lessons learned, and receiving formal acceptance of the delivered work as part of the phase or project, are often involved in _____ processes.

Closing

During _____ processes for a new project, the organization recognizes that a new project exists, and completes a project charter as part of this recognition.

Initiating

The project integration management knowledge area maps to the _____ process group through the activities of developing project charters.

Initiating

The project scope management knowledge area maps to the _____ process group through the activities of scope validation and scope control.

Monitoring and controlling

The project time management knowledge area maps to the _____ process group through the activity of schedule control.

Monitoring and controlling

Developing a _____ is a planning process that occurs in the Project Integration Management knowledge area.

Project management plan

_____ is a planning process that is within the Project Scope Management knowledge area.

Creation of a WBS

The project cost management knowledge area maps to the _____ process group through the activities of estimating costs and budget determination.

Planning

The project stakeholder management knowledge area maps to the ______ process group by identifying stakeholders.

Initiating

_____ is an iterative software development process that focuses on team productivity and delivers software best practices to all team members.

Rational Unified Process

Which of the following is a pre-initiation task?

Developing a business case for a project

One of the main outputs of the initiation process is _____.

Developing the project charter

The main purpose of project plans is to

Guide project execution

The project management plan is the output of the planning process of project _____.

Integration management

The most difficult and unappreciated process in project management is often

Planning

Which of the following is a planning process associated with project scope management?

Collecting requirements

The _____ provides a basis for creating the project schedule and performing earned value management for measuring and forecasting project performance.

Work breakdown structure

_____ are an output of the executing process of project integration management.

Deliverables

Enterprise environmental factors are an output of the executing process of _____.

Project human resource management

_____ includes measuring progress toward project objectives and taking corrective action to match progress with the plan.

Monitoring and controlling

The _____ process involves gaining stakeholder and customer acceptance of the final products and services and bringing the project, or project phase, to an orderly end.

Closing

Organizational process assets update is the output of the closing process of _____.

Project integration management

Which of the following is true about the agile method?

It uses several iterations or deliveries of software instead of waiting until the end of the project to provide a product.

Which of the following project parameters would be compatible with the use of the agile approach?

Projects that have more flexible scheduling

Which of the following activities is a part of the planning process of the Scrum?

Creating sprint backlog

The improvement of the product and process in the Scrum method is discussed at the _____.

Sprint reflection meeting

A _____ is usually not necessary to the Scrum method.

Team contract

A _____ is an important Scrum artifact used to graphically display progress on each sprint during the monitoring and controlling process.

Burndown chart