Vocabulary
Formula
Processes
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Ethics
100
A meeting used to initiate the start of the project, typically attended by all key stakeholders
What is a kickoff meeting?
100
The formula for the number of communication channels on a project
What is n(n-1)/2?
100
A communications management plan is the primary output of this process
What is Plan Communications?
100
This communication method is reciprocal and can involve just two people or many people
What is interactive communication?
100
The name of the organization that publishes the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
What is the Project Management Institute or PMI?
200
A deliverable that states who will receive what information, from whom, at what frequency
What is the communications management plan?
200
The meaning of "n" in the formula n(n-1)/2
What is the number of people working on the project?
200
On a large project, you might issue forecasting reports and variance reports as part of this process
What is Report Performance?
200
Percent of time a project manager spends communicating
What is 90%?
200
A situation that arises when the project manager has competing loyalties
What is a conflict of interest?
300
Status reports, company-wide announcements, and press releases are examples of this type of communication
What is push communication? OR What is formal written communication?
300
The number of communication channels on a 10-person project team
What is 45?
300
The one process group that does not include any Communications Management processes
What is Closing?
300
Creating an agenda and distributing it beforehand is an example of a technique for increasing the effectiveness of these
What are meetings?
300
Upon discovering a policy, law, or ethics violation, a project manager who is following the PMI Code will immediately do this
What is report the violation to the responsible manager/supervisor?
400
A report on the actual project results vs. planned results
What is a variance report?
400
The number of communication channels that are added when the project increases from 10 to 12 team members
What is 21?
400
The two communications processes that are done during Executing
What are Distribute Information and Manage Stakeholder Expectations?
400
This report examines project results over time to see if performance is improving or deteriorating
What is a trend report?
400
The four categories of professional and social responsibility in the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
What are responsibility, respect, fairness, and honesty?
500
An integrated scope-schedule-cost plan that is used as the basis for execution measurement and performance management
What is the performance measurement baseline?
500
When Dimensional grew from 35 to 500 employees, the number of communication channels in the company increased by this number
What is 124,155?
500
The only other process in the Initiating process group besides Identify Stakeholders
What is Develop Project Charter?
500
Stakeholder register templates, historical information, lessons learned from previous projects, and change control procedures are examples of this very common process input
What are organizational process assets?
500
When offered an assignment that he or she is not qualified to complete, a project manager who follows the PMI Code will do this
What is turn down the assignment?