Project Management 11.0
Enabling a small, cross-functional, self-managing team to deliver fast.
What is Scrum?
An American mechanical engineer, is considered to be the creator of Gantt charts between the years 1910 and 1915. His first name is . . . .
What is Henry?
"By staying late last night and finishing the work, the project was able to move forward. Your efforts are much appreciated by all’. This is called Giving what kind of feedback?
What is Positive?
An example of an External Stakeholder might be.
What is a Vendor or an Outside Contractor or A Public Works official?
The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) defines this as a "deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team."
What is a WBS or Work Breakdown Structure?
In this type of organization, projects are staffed from functional teams that have a specialized expertise.
What is a Matrix Organization?
Indicates a stakeholder’s relative power over and within a project.
What is Influence?
A subject matter expert within a project team is also consider to be this type of manager.
What is a Functional Manager?
When the site must be set up in the current warehouse of the company in <3 months, it is typically called this.
What is a Constraint?
Host a Beach-Athlon for 1 day (BBQ, swim / run competition) to raise money for a children’s hospital. This would be the Project's . . . . .
What is Scope?
This type of Control identifies what might go wrong, how and when will I know and what will we do about it.
What is Risk Control?
Senior managers were never convinced and so never supported the project, leading to problems such as lack of resource. Neither did those managers exercise normal management supervision as they routinely do in their other areas of responsibility. These senior managers are said to have no . . . . .
What is Buy In?
An individual, group or organization who may affect, be affected by or perceive itself to be affected by a decision, activity or outcome of a project. This is called the - - - - Definition.
What is Stakeholder Definition?
Indicates the degree to which the project cannot be considered successful if needs, expectations and issues are not addressed. The measure is often derived based on the relation of the stakeholder’s needs to the project’s goals and purposes.
What is Importance?
This stage involves assessing the project results, obtaining customer approvals, assigning project team members to new work and conducting a post-project evaluation.
What is Project Closure?
When providing feedback avoid “always” and “never”. Discuss specific times & events. Avoid conclusions such as, “you’re too dominating”. Instead of being too 'general', you must be.
What is Specific?
People tend to be more of this when an issue is important to them.
What is Assertive?
The project manager issues regular reports on actual's against budget, schedule and scope. This report is called the . . . . .
What is Progress Report?
Agreement through yielding or conforming to the positions of others is this type of Conflict Resolution.
What is Accommodation?
REMEMBER: People do not like to be ‘managed’, they like to be this.
What is Led?
In negotiation, you should do this when the opponent says yes.
What is Shut Up?
The number one reason why women fail to get what they deserve when negotiating salary is because of this.
What is Asking? Or what is They do Not Ask?
You have a project to be completed in 12 months. The budget of the project is $100,000. Six months have passed and $60,000 has been spent. On closer review, you find that only 40% of the work has been completed so far. The project’s Earned Value (EV) is . . . . .
What is $40,000?
In the question, you can clearly see that only 40% of the work is actually completed, and the definition of Earned Value states that it is the value of the project that has been earned.
Earned Value = 40% of the value of total work
= 40% of Budget At Completion (BAC)
= 40% of $100,000
= 0.4 X 100,000
= $40,000
Monitoring and control are based on what came . . .
What is Before?
This corrective action can save the managers time, energy, resources and concentrates efforts on areas showing the greatest needs.
What is Management by Exception?