POTENT POTABLES (JK)
INTERIOR DESIGN
PM BASICS
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PROJECT MANAGEMENT MISCELLANEOUS
100

The full name of QA/QC.

What is a Quality Assurance/Quality Control?

100

The professional organization for Interior Designers geared to Commercial Design.

What is IIDA?

100

Three items to control when managing a project.

What are cost, schedule, and scope.

100

A process with an objective, duration, and level of effort.

What is a task?

100

Worked on in multiple attempts or passes, with each pass adding additional details.

What is the iterative process?

200

This document subdivides the project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components.  Each decending level represents more detail about the project work including duration.

What is a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?

200

The test required to become a licensed Interior Designer.

What is the NCIDQ?

200

High motivation to manage; Ethical and professional behavior; Technical and legal competency; Pragmatic decision-making skills; Ability to make decisions with incomplete information; A generalist's experience, education, and attitude; Good communication skills; Ability to empower a design team.

What are the Characteristics of a Good Project Manager?

200

Mediation, Arbitration and Litigation are the three common contractual techniques.

What are dispute resolution techniques?

200

The project management principle that supports a culture which enables individuals to work together and provide synergistic effects from interactions.

What is project team management?

300

An amount of dollars or time, built into the budget or schedule, to cover unexpected construction costs or schedule delays.

What is a contingency?

300

The art, science, and business planning of a creative, technical, sustainable, and functional interior solution that corresponds to the architecture of a space.

What is interior design?

300
To ensure that all work is completed on time, within budget and scope, and at the correct performance level.

What is the primary role/responsibility of the project manager?

300

This is a legal document, with mutually binding terms and conditions.

What is a contract?

300

A tool used for developing the project program and for exploring alternative solutions with clients.

What is a charrette?

400

Risk management is designed to reduce the level of this.

What is uncertainty.

400

The governing association that gives accreditation to Higher Education Interior Design programs.

What is CIDA?

400

The single most important skill that a project manager should have.

What are communication skills?

400

This document defines how the project is executed, monitored and controlled, and closed.

What is the Project Management Plan?

400

Delivering in excess of what was originally agreed to, without being compensated to do so.

What is scope creep?

500

The type of communication that consists of facial expressions, body posture, and eye focus.

What is nonverbal communication?

500

Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Documents, Procurement, Competitive Bidding, Negotiated Proposals, and Construction Administration.

What are the phases that an Interior Designer should be engaged in a project?

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What are the Scope of Architect's Basic Services?

500

Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing

What are the 5 phases of any project?

500

This law says that as you add resources to complete work, at some point, you start achieving less and less work per resource.

What is the Law of Diminishing Returns?
500

A creative, educated guess, based on combining past experience with available information to form an inference that is likely based on available facts.

What is abduction?

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