Chapter4

Question 1

Who is in charge of a single small project can plan and schedule the project tasks without much formal planning and information.

Answer 1

Project Manager

Question 2

it is a definition of the end result or mission of your project

Answer 2

Project scope

Question 3

it describe what you expect to deliver to your customer when the project is complete

Answer 3

Scope

Question 4

Project Scope Checklist

Answer 4

• Project Objective
• Deliverables
• Milestones
• Technical Requirements
• Limits and exclusions
• Reviews with customer

Question 5

The first step of project scope definition is to define the overall objective to meet your customer’s needs

Answer 5

Project Objective

Question 6

It is the expected outputs over the life of the project

Answer 6

Deliverables

Question 7

It is a significant event in a project that occurs at a point in a time. It It shows only major segment of work

Answer 7

Milestones

Question 8

It is to ensure proper performance.

Answer 8

Technical requirements

Question 9

Failure to do this can lead to false expectation and to expending resources and time on the wrong problem

Answer 9

Limit and exclusions

Question 10

The main concern here is the understanding and agreement of expectations.

Answer 10

Reviews with customer

Question 11

this refers to a document that authorizes the project manager to initiate and lead the project

Answer 11

Project Charter

Question 12

It is the tendency for the project to expand over ime

Answer 12

Scope Creep

Question 13

A technique used to identify which criterion is constrained, which should be enhanced, and which can be accepted

Answer 13

Priority Matrix

Question 14

The original parameter is fixed

Answer 14

Constrain

Question 15

Criterion should be optimized

Answer 15

Enhance

Question 16

Project Management trade-offs

Answer 16

Scope, Cost, Time

Question 17

Which criterion is it tolerable not to meet the original parameters

Answer 17

Accept

Question 18

It is a map of the project.

Answer 18

Work Breakdown Structure

Question 19

Defines all the elements of the project in a hierarchical framework and establishes their relationship to the project end item

Answer 19

Work Breakdown Stucture

Question 20

The lowest level of the WBS is called ____

Answer 20

work package

Question 21

It is responsible for seeing that the package is completed on time, within budget, and according to technical spesification

Answer 21

Work package manager

Question 22

it depicts how the firm has organized to discharge work responsibility

Answer 22

Organization breakdown structure

Question 23

Summarized the tasks to be accomplished and who is responsible for what on a project

Answer 23

Responsibility table or Linear Responsibility Chart

Question 24

It is a key component in coordinating and tracking project schedules, issues and action items

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Communication

Question 25

Communication plan follows these basic steps:

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- Stakeholder analysis - Information needs - Sources of information - Dissemination modes - Responsibility timing

Question 26

Steps in Defining the project

Answer 26

1. defining the project scope 2. Establishing project priorities 3. Creating the work breakdown structure 4. Integrating the WBS with the organization 5. Coding the WBS for the Information System

Question 27

Purpose of the Scope Statemtent

Answer 27

- To clearly define the deliverables for the end user - To focus the project on successful completion of its goals - To be used by the project owner and participants as a planning toll and for measuring project success.