Engineering

Question 1

two main types of project management

Answer 1

waterfall and agile

Question 2

what is very important for ant project?

Answer 2

planning

Question 3

failure to plan is planning to?

Answer 3

fail

Question 4

What is one of the most important attributes of successful teams and projects?

Answer 4

a good plan

Question 5

What does project quality mean?

Answer 5

meeting the project scope while managing time and cost

Question 6

What do effective teams need to do?

Answer 6

work towards a common and understood goal

Question 7

Traditional leadership

Answer 7

one leader who directs subordinates

Question 8

Participative leadership

Answer 8

leader is closer to workers, members of team provide input and feedback- common in modern engineering firms

Question 9

tasks that meet?

Answer 9

the experience of team members

Question 10

who is the project manager?

Answer 10

the designated leader

Question 11

what does the project manager do?

Answer 11

monitor progress of work and track movement towards milestones, manage resources and people working towards goals, and help solve problems, communication issues, and facilitate discussion

Question 12

Waterfall?

Answer 12

teams think of their projects as a sequential process

Question 13

Step 1

Answer 13

Initiating

Question 14

2

Answer 14

Planning/Design

Question 15

3

Answer 15

Implementation/development

Question 16

4

Answer 16

Verification/ testing

Question 17

5

Answer 17

Maintaining

Question 18

6

Answer 18

Closing

Question 19

initiating

Answer 19

clients determine whether the project is a good idea or not and its benefits, project charters are used at this stage

Question 20

Planning/design

Answer 20

plan out project process- Work breakdown structure, milestones (SMART)

Question 21

What should the WBS be?

Answer 21

mutually exclusive and completely exhaustive

Question 22

What do network diagrams show?

Answer 22

The interdependencies between tasks

Question 23

Gantt charts

Answer 23

timeline of tasks and progress

Question 24

Implementation and development

Answer 24

executing the plan

Question 25

verification and testing

Answer 25

testing product and launching project

Question 26

Maintaining/Controlling

Answer 26

fix things that don't work, train customers

Question 27

Closing

Answer 27

handing over or stopping the work, releasing resources

Question 28

What type of a chart is a gantt chart

Answer 28

horizontal bar charts

Question 29

how are dependencies showed in the gantt chart?

Answer 29

by arrows

Question 30

what is understood through a gantt chart?

Answer 30

delivery time, how many people/ which people used for tasks

Question 31

What is needed to create a gantt chart

Answer 31

Work Breakdown Structure

Question 32

What can color be used for in gantt

Answer 32

people/types of people doing the task as well as progress towards completing the task

Question 33

Types of dependencies

Answer 33

FS, SS, FF, SF

Question 34

Network diagrams

Answer 34

logical relationships between project activities

Question 35

Two main types of network diagrams

Answer 35

arrow diagrams and precedence diagrams

Question 36

What dependencies do AoA diagrams show?

Answer 36

FS dependencies

Question 37

precedence diagrams are also?

Answer 37

activity on node diagrams

Question 38

critical path

Answer 38

longest path through the network diagram

Question 39

free float

Answer 39

ES of next activity- EF of current activity

Question 40

total float

Answer 40

LF- EF

Question 41

Milestones have a duration of

Answer 41

zero

Question 42

agile has customer?

Answer 42

involvement

Question 43

sprints??

Answer 43

short cycles in which feedback is given following them

Question 44

SCRUM is used in?

Answer 44

agile

Question 45

Kanban is used in?

Answer 45

agile

Question 46

agile vs waterfall?

Answer 46

shorter development cycles and more frequent product releases

Question 47

agile isn't good for?

Answer 47

small development projects

Question 48

what is agile focused on?

Answer 48

individuals and interactions, getting a working product

Question 49

effort

Answer 49

duration of the project