Closing Process Group
Lessons learned are created and project resources are released in this Process Group.
What is Closing?
P. 123
These "Wonderful" and "Great" people can save the universe.
What are project managers?
A temporary endeavor with a beginning and an end; creates a unique product, service or result.
What is a project?
This position is similar to a project expediter except has some power to make decisions, some authority, and reports to a higher-level manager.
What is a project coordinator?
The first step in the first process group.
What is select project manager?
A project manager builds consensus and overcomes obstacles by employing this communication technique.
What is facilitation?
P. 80
These are the criteria by which projects are ultimately chosen and must meet.
What are strategic goals?
P. 584
The application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
What is project management?
What you need to do to produce the deliverables of the project.
What is the project life cycle.
This term describes what you need to do to complete the work.
What is the project life cycle?
Verification of project deliverables occurs during this process.
What is Close Project or Phase?
Most projects (per PMI) are managed in this type of environment.
What is a matrix environment?
P. 350, understanding influence is key in this environment
Organizational function performing the ongoing execution of activities that produce the same product or provide a repetitive service.
What are Operations?
Like assistant team members, this group needs to be kept informed, have their input solicited, and have their needs and expectations satisfied.
What are stakeholders?
This term describes what you need to do to manage the project.
What is the project management process?
This is Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work.
What is an Work Performance Information?
Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work
P. 26
Project delays must be made up by adjusting this.
What is future work?
P. 256, this is a consideration during variance analysis
A group of programs and individual projects implemented to achieve a strategic business goal.
What is a portfolio?
The two life cycles and one overall process you must know for the exam.
What are the product life cycle, the project life cycle, and the project management process.
This process group is one of the worst scoring on the PMP exam.
What is Monitoring and Controlling?
This tool or technique allows a large number of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis.
What is an affinity diagram?
Affinity diagrams allow large numbers of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis.
P. 144
A project manager spends his/her time controlling these seven things (guess 5 for correct answer).
What are scope, time, cost, quality, risk, resources and customer satisfaction.
Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available.
What is progressive elaboration?
P. 753
Project managers need to collect and review these before starting work on new projects.
What are lessons learned from similar projects?
The final step in the last PM process group.
What is update lessons learned knowledge base?