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Management Week 1 2

The project manager is leading a cross-functional project team in a weak matrix environment where team members do not report to them and they cannot provide rewards. The project has tight schedule constraints and high quality requirements. To be most effective in this situation, the project manager will likely need to rely on personal power.
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Management Week 1 2

The project manager is leading a cross-functional project team in a weak matrix environment where team members do not report to them and they cannot provide rewards. The project has tight schedule constraints and high quality requirements. To be most effective in this situation, the project manager will likely need to rely on personal power.
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You are a project manager in a weak matrix environment, leading a cross-functional project

team. None of the members of your project team report technically to you and you don't have
the ability to explicitly reward their results. The project is difficult, with tight schedule constraints
and high-quality requirements. In this situation, which of the following types of project
management power will likely be the most effective?

Expert

The project manager decides that additional human resources are required during project
preparation within a matrix organization. Whom should he ask for such services from?

Functional manager

A downside of the waterfall process is that research is performed only at project end?

False

What is the correct order of process phases of the waterfall model?

Requirements, Design, Implementation, Testing, Maintenance

Reduced development time is a benefit of RAD

True

When a team leader learns that during some important project tasks he will be on holiday, what
is the right thing for him to do?

Recommend preventive actions

RAD will be used when a program with a high budget for designers has to be produced within a
limited time frame

True

An organization that does not find risks associated with the project at any semi-formal risk
management?

External environment
What sort of dispute resolution strategy a project manager uses when he says, "I can't handle
this problem now!"

Withdrawal

Which of the following is not a Human Resource Plan method and technique?

Rewards and recognition

Which of the following tools indicates who is responsible for what?

A responsibility assignment matrix

Which one of the following does a payback calculation given to an organization?

An assessment of how quickly an implemented system will produce a profit

Time management is essential to create, track and manage the timetable for the project. This
involves determining the stages and tasks of the project, and then calculating, scheduling, and
allocating resources for each process to ensure the objectives and aims of the project are
achieved.

True

A minor, family-owned manufacturing company may have an entirely different corporate


culture, strategy and structure than an electronic commerce start-up. As a result, the chosen
programs, the technological infrastructure, and the IT function will be different for each
organization.

Operating in an Environment Larger Than the Project Itself

If the company wants to build a tax decision-making method, having a project team tax
specialist who can share his / her expertise would be more effective than having the technical
people seek to learn more about tax accounting when designing the program.

Subject matter expert


Which of the following is NOT managed by the project manager?

The project sponsor

Scope management ensures that the design of the project is correctly and thoroughly defined
and done as expected. Additionally, scope control requires ways to ensure appropriate protocols
are in place to adjust scope.

True

A minor, family-owned manufacturing company may have an entirely different corporate


culture, strategy and structure than an electronic commerce start-up. As a result, the chosen
programs, the technological infrastructure, and the IT function will be different for each
organization.

Operating in an Environment Larger Than the Project Itself

To crash a schedule, you should:

Increase research efforts on those essential route tasks.

Which of the following tools indicates who is responsible for what?

A responsibility assignment matrix

A kind of danger that we bring into the project in terms of projections or forecasts. They are
what we use to estimate scale, schedule and budget and determine project risks.

Assumptions

Time management is essential to create, track and manage the timetable for the project. This
involves determining the stages and tasks of the project, and then calculating, scheduling, and
allocating resources for each process to ensure the objectives and aims of the project are
achieved.

True

When a project is a temporary undertaking it needs to have a definite start and end. Many
projects start on a specific date, and the completion date is estimated. What is this?
Time Frame

He is accountable for guaranteeing that all the processes of project management and
technological development are in place and conducted within a set of basic criteria, specified
procedures, and quality standards

Project Manager

 A ______________________ is a series of tasks networked in an order and aimed at achieving the


project's objectives.

Project

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a project?

Ongoing nature

A project must have a goal of guiding the project in terms of identifying the work to be
completed, its timeline and budget and having a clear path for the project team.

Purpose

The specific structure is based on arranging resources to carry out complex tasks or activities to
attain the organization's goals. Projects are usually organized and housed within a specific role
across customary networks.

Functional Organization

This organizational structure offers funding for ventures as the dominant business type. A
project organization can usually support several projects at once and can incorporate project
management methods and strategies around the enterprise. Each project is viewed within the
organization as a separate and fairly autonomous entity.

Project Organization
Team is based on the conventional model where the majority of decisions are taken by a single
member, delegates to subordinates and tracks the progress of the tasks assigned to them.

False
A team member on the project is not performing well as she is inexperienced in the work of
system development. There is no other who is better suited to do the job. What is the best
Project Manager solution?

Arrange for the team member to get training

If several projects are going at the same time, what does matrix organization makes for a
stronger company

Balanced capital

The project manager asks each team member to explain the work he or she does during each
project team meeting, and the project manager assigns new tasks to the team members. Such
meetings have grown in duration as there are several different tasks to be performed. This could
be happening for all the following reasons except:

Lack of resource leveling

This is a combination of functional vertical structure and horizontal structure of a project. As a


result, this company provides many of the opportunities and problems associated with the
successful organizations and programs.

Matrix Organization

The MOST popular causes of a project conflict are timetables, project goals and:

Resources

You have just been appointed to a massive telecommunications project as the project manager.
This one-year project is around halfway into completion. The project team is made up of 5
sellers, and 20 employees of your company. You want to understand who's in charge of doing
what on the project. Where are you going to find that information?

Responsibility assignment matrix

A project manager had a dynamic problem solving and promoted a team consensus about what
to do. The problem resurfaced several months later. What most probably didn't the project
manager do?

Confirm the decision solved the problem

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