Module 1 review
Initiating a project
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Developing Proposals
Project failures
100
A temporary endeavor to accomplish a specific objective through a unique set of interrelated activities and the effective utilization of resources.
What is a project?
100
Phase of a project life cycle that involves recognizing a need, a problem or an opportunity that the project in consideration might address.
What is initiating phase?
100
Planning, organizing, coordinating, leading, and controlling resources to accomplish a defined objective. Plan the work and work the plan!!
What is project management?
100
An agreement for service signed by the customer and the contractor
What is a contract?
100
A category 5 storm had breached the levees, flooded eighty percent of the city, killed 1,500 people, and left over 80 billion in damages. It was the costliest natural disaster in US history. Noted for failures in Communication, Leadership, Perceptions and Difficult Relationships.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
200
People, equipment, money, materials are examples of ______ in project management?
What are resources?
200
Developing a set of evaluation criteria, listing assumptions about each project, gathering data and info about each project and evaluating each project against the agreed upon criteria.
What is the project selection process?
200
Premier world-wide not-for-profit association of practitioners in the project management profession. It published the PMBOK Guide - a guide to the "Project Management Body of Knowledge"
What is the Project Management Institute (PMI)?
200
Technical, management and cost information
What are the typical sections of a proposal?
200
On February 1, 2003 seven astronauts perished when their Space Shuttle disintegrated as it reentered the earth’s atmosphere. During launch a piece of foam insulation, similar in composition to a Styrofoam cup and about the size of a briefcase, broke away from the main propellant tank. The foam struck the left wing seriously breaching the protective panels on its leading edge.
What was the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster?
300
Scope, schedule, and cost are three main ______ in project management
What are project management constraints?
300
Document prepared by the sponsor/customer which defines the project requirements and is used to solicit proposals from potential contractors to do the work.
What is a request for proposal?
300
Document that formally authorizes the project, commits funds to the project, summarizes the key conditions and parameters of the project and establishes the framework for developing a detailed baseline plan.
What is a project charter?
300
Agreement where the customer and contractor agree on a price for the proposed work
What is a fixed-price contract?
300
While drilling a new oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, the rig became enveloped in flames and collapsed. Eleven platform workers died and the drill pipe, one mile below the platform, bent and fractured where it entered the ocean floor. Immediately, oil started gushing through the broken pipe. Failure in analyzing project risk.
What was the BP Oil Spill disaster?
400
Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling and Closing
What are the 5 Process Groups in project management
400
Document submitted by the contractor that proposes an approach, schedule, and budget to meet the requirements of the request for proposal and accomplish the scope of the project.
What is a proposal?
400
Individuals or entities involved in, or who may influence, or may be affected by the project
What are project stakeholders?
400
Shows the customer that the contractor has an understanding of the need, a proposed approach or solution, and the benefits to the customer
What is the technical section of a proposal?
400
Failure of a moon-sized space station with the ability to destroy an entire planet. The project team was so focused on creating a weapon capable of destroying anything in its path that they failed to install adequate defensive measures. There was no risk management strategy put in place to mitigate against risks such as flying spaceships manned by Chewbacca and friends.
What is the Death Star?
500
Project Integration Management, Project Scope Management, Project Time Management, Project Cost Management, Project Quality Management, Project Human Resource Management, Project Communications Management, Project Risk Management, Project Procurement Management, Project Stakeholder Management.
What are the 10 Knowledge areas of Project Management
500
Objective, statement of work, customer requirements that must be met, deliverables the contractor must provide, acceptance criteria for the deliverables, a list of any customer-supplied items, approvals the customer requires, type of contract, payment terms, schedule for completion, evaluation criteria for proposals, etc...
What are the elements of a well written RFP?
500
Establish project objective, define scope, create a WBS, assign responsibility, define specific activities, sequence activities, estimate resources, estimate activity durations, develop a schedule, estimate costs, and determine a budget
What are the steps to establish a baseline plan?
500
Where the contractor outlines the major tasks, a list of deliverables, a project schedule, a description of the organization of he project, a synopsis of related past performance and a list of other special equipment and facilities the contractor has.
What is the management section of a proposal?
500
In the fall of 2006, the pre-assembled wiring harnesses produced in the Hamburg plant failed to fit properly into the frame when the plane was in the assembly stage in the Toulouse plant. Costs exceeded $6B and a two year delay. Cause - org culture and management
What was the Airbus 380 wiring harness failure?
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