Tests designed to determine how personalities might get along in a group.
What is personality type testing/MBTI/HBDI?
100
In the realm of formal vs. informal, and written vs. oral, we might refer to the project charter this way.
What is a formal, written communication?
100
An uncertain event or condition, which, if it occurs, can have a positive or negative impact on project
What is Risk?
100
This is the area of the project where we manage alterations to the product, processes, or the project itself.
What is change control?
100
In addition to understanding one, and two, this is something else you must understand.
What is "and"?
200
Says that if a system is to be stable, the number of states of its control mechanism must be greater than or equal to the number of states in the system being controlled.
What is requisite variety?
200
The percent of his or her time a Project Manager spends acquiring information and disseminating information.
What is 90 percent?
200
Risk management is designed to reduce the level of this.
What is uncertainty?
200
This is a legal document, with mutually binding terms and conditions.
What is a contract?
200
These are the five phases of any project.
What is concept, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closing (finishing)?
300
The kind of power that comes from mastery of the subject. (Think five kinds of power)
What is expert power?
300
In the classic communications model, there are three parts.
What are the sender, the receiver, and the message?
300
The two things we need to estimate regarding any risk?
What is impact, and probability (or likelihood)?
300
When a group of sellers is approved in advance of order placement.
What are pre-qualified sellers?
300
The kind of feedback that tends to keep a process in balance.
What is negative (balancing) feedback?
400
The kind of power that comes from one's position in the company.
What is legitimate power?
400
The listening skill where you listen, and then restate to the speaker what you think you have heard them say.
What is active listening?
400
This is the analysis we usually do before we do quantitative risk analysis.
What is qualitative risk analysis?
400
When a client invites a group of contractors in to answer questions, and explain a new contract effort.
What is a bidder's conference?
400
Where the buck stops in any project.
What is "with the Project Manager."
500
The knowledge area of project management that deals with how to get people to get along, and do some work.
What is project human resource management?
500
The type of communication that consists of facial expressions, body posture, and eye focus.
What is nonverbal communication?
500
This is the result of a risk's probability times its expected cost to us.
What is the expected value (or EMV)?
500
When you win a new contract, this is always a good first step, in concert with your customer.
What is a Kickoff meeting?
500
These are the nine knowledge areas of project management.
What are systems integration, scope, time, cost, quality, HR, communications, risk, and procurement.