Role of the Project Manager
These are the three elements of the talent triangle.
Leadership, Technical, and Strategic and Business Management.
You are working with your project team and stakeholders to plan the project work. Some of the resources are in Chicago, Illinois and other resources are in London, UK. The distribution of resources, such as in your project, are also known as what?
Enterprise Environmental Factors
You are the project manager of a new project. When is the likelihood of failing to achieve the objectives the highest within your project?
At the start of the project
The process of getting the results that are expected by project stakeholders.
Management
As the project manager, you must work with your project team to identify the project and the project phases within the project schedule. To help with this identification you are using the project plan and project documents from a completed and similar project. These project files are commonly known as what term?
Organizational Process Assets
Beth is a new project manager for her company and she’s working with her project team to develop a project management plan. Beth knows that she must rely on several different skills to make her first project successful. Of the following management skills, which one will a project manager use most?
Communicating
Organizational culture, structure, and governance. Leadership, vision, beliefs, hierarchy of management, ethics, and organizational codes of conduct expectations are part of this.
Internal EEFs
You are the project manager for your organization and you’re working with the project team to explain the approach of the project life cycle and how you’ll be managing proposed changes to the project scope. If your company is a weak matrix company who will make decisions on change control?
Functional Manager
This leader puts others first and focuses on the needs of the people.
Servant Leader
These can affect your project in your organization.
Processes, Policies, and Procedures
Holly is the project manager for her company and her team likes working for her because she has a good attitude, is easy to work with, and is a good planner. The project team views Holly as a member of management who can give them a good review and possibly affect their financial bonus if the project is completed on time. What type of power does Holly have?
Reward Power
Project closing procedures for acceptance, prodcut validation, and evaluations can be identified as
In a centralized organization who is control of the project budget?
Functional Manager
You know that leadership and project management not the same thing, but they are connected. Leaders and managers rely on communications within a project to help motivate, manage, and ensure that the project is moving forward towards its objectives. Communication includes an activity where the receiver restates what the sender has said to confirm the message and to allow the sender to clarify if needed. What is this communication component called?
Active Listening
Criteria for tailoring, organizational standards, and product and project life cycles are managed in what process(es)?
Initiating and Planning
Teresa is the project manager for her department, and she has been working with her manager to examine her skills and her career. Teresa’s manager believes that more training in her department's project management information system (PMIS) would make Teresa a better project manager. Teresa agrees since she feels she doesn’t know much about the PMIS her department uses. Which one of the five steps of competence describes Teresa's realization?
Consciously Incompetent
In your industry there is a government regulation your products must adhere to. This government regulation will affect how you manage your project.
External Enterprise Environmental Factor
Nancy is a project manager for the NHG Corporation. She has identified several positive stakeholders for her construction project and a few negative stakeholders. Nancy and the project team have been meeting regularly with the positive stakeholders but have not met with the negative stakeholders. Mike, the Chief Project Office from the PMO, tells Nancy she needs to meet with the negative stakeholders as quickly as possible. What type of PMO is Nancy working with?
Controlling
A project manager is meeting with his project team. In this meeting, the top ten percent of project team members are openly praised for their hard work. The bottom ten percent of the project team members are disciplined and somewhat berated in the meeting. The balance of the project team is not addresses. What type of leadership is happening in this scenario?
Transactional Leadership
Transactional leadership means the leader emphasizes the goals of the project and rewards and disincentives for the project team. This is sometimes called management by exception as it’s the exception that is reward or punished.
Change management, Issues and defects management, resource availability and assignment management are found in which process(es)
Executing, Monitoring and Controlling
Mark is new project manager in his company. Before joining this company, Mark worked as a project manager for an IT service provider for more than 20 years. Mark has a deep understanding of electronics, software development, and data warehouse technology and is considered an expert in his field. His current project team, however, is pushing back on Mark's recommendations and challenging his knowledge of the project. Since Mark is new, the project team reasons, he likely doesn’t understand how things work in the organization. What type of power does Mark have in this scenario?
Positional Power
Cataloging, archiving, retrievable, organizational process assets.
Organizational Knowledge Repositories
Mark is the owner of a small manufacturing company. He’s working with the assemblers, production crew, and even the administrative staff to complete an order for a new client. There’s not a formal project manager on this project, but everyone is working together to complete the project on time. What type of structure is Mark operating in?
Simple Structure -
Respect for others, problem solving abilities, and desire to learn and improve are attributes of
Leadership
This defines what can and cannot done in the organization, determines how to operate within the system, and is the organizational structure.
Organizational Governance Framework