A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result.
What is a project?
100
The ___________ meeting aligns all team members to the common project goals.
What is the kick-off meeting?
100
This stakeholder often champions and defends projects of particular interest.
Who is a project sponsor?
100
Identifies the appropriate scope, deliverables and team participants. Must be signed by both parties prior to the start of any project work.
What is the project charter?
100
Labor, materials, and equipment.
What are direct costs?
200
Events that will occur at a mapped out point in time and are considered control points.
What are milestones?
200
The ability to have control of your own emotions and respond constructively and appropriately to others in stressful situations.
High emotional intelligence (EQ)
200
A tool that integrates the work packages in your WBS with the employees responsible for performing the work.
What is an organization breakdown structure (OBS)?
200
You are planning to have your team finish the project 6 months earlier than contractually agreed so that your organization can earn a $2M higher profit. This is an example of an
What is an incentive contract?
200
Normal, premature, perpetual, failed, and changed.
What are types of project closure?
300
A methodology used at a project’s conclusion to determine what worked and what didn’t in order to inform future endeavors.
What is a retrospective?
300
In this type of project management structure a PM has the most say over the roles of the project team members and dictates their time allocation and performance reviews.
What is a projectized or dedicated team environment?
300
Always demonstrate how your project supports, aligns and delivers on your organization's __________ objectives.
What is strategic?
300
Activities in a project network that have more than one dependency are referred to as these types of activities.
What are merge activities?
300
This plan must be developed prior to creating your project control system so that you are able to evaluate your project as you go forward.
What is a baseline plan?
400
A document that is used to clearly establish a project's priorities with customers so that there are shared expectations and as few surprises as possible.
What is a priority matrix?
400
When planning a project with a high degree of uncertainty and an unstable scope a PM should consult with top-management first and then with his/her project team. This approach is referred to as
What is top-down approach?
400
This is the basic principle that “one good deed deserves another.”
What is the law of reciprocity?
400
You are planning your project and need to estimate the time it will take to develop 13 packages for your newest project. Each project is identical so you will estimate the time for the completing the first package and consider that each of the following 12 packages will take about 3% less time than the previous. This is the method described here.
What is Learning Curve?
400
Effectively using meetings, establishing a project team name, co-locating team members, developing team rituals.
What are ways to establish a team identity?
500
A summary included in the final report which highlights the key findings relating to the project’s implementation.
What is an executive summary?
500
Mediate, arbitrate, control, accept, eliminate.
What are ways for a PM to manage dysfunctional conflict?
500
When working with outsourcers, this document states the common goals pro the project as well as the procedures that will be used to accomplish those goals.
What is a partnering charter?
500
A CPI or SPI of this value indicates that the project is either over cost or behind schedule.