General
Budget plan
HR Plan
Procurement plan
Detailed Implementation plan
MEAL Plan
As a project manager for a new education initiative, you need to create a budget. You reference the cost of a similar past project that developed training programs for rural teachers. Additionally, to refine your estimate, you consider the best-case, most likely, and worst-case scenarios for the costs involved. What budgeting techniques are you using?
- Analogy
- 3-point-estimate
As the project manager for a disaster relief initiative, you need to clarify who has the authority to make decisions on various aspects of the project, such as budget approvals, resource allocation, and task assignments. You use a tool that outlines decision-making responsibilities and authorities. What is this tool called?
Authority matrix
As a project manager for an education initiative, you are in the initial phase of your project. You gather your team to establish objectives, set up governance structures, and create the project charter. Which phase of the project are you in?
Set up phase
You are managing a project to build a new community center. Due to an unexpected delay, you need to speed up the project to meet the original deadline. You consider performing some tasks simultaneously. What project management technique you are using?
Fast Tracking
In your NGO’s latest healthcare project, you have a key individual responsible for providing resources, making major decisions, and supporting the project manager. Additionally, a group of senior stakeholders provides strategic direction and oversight. What are these two governance roles called?"
Sponsor
Board
The longest sequence of tasks in a project plan that must be completed on time for the entire project to be completed on schedule. It determines the shortest possible project duration and identifies the tasks that directly impact the project timeline. What is it?
The Critical Path
Due to the complexity of your project, you decide to use a planning approach that allows you to plan in detail for the immediate phases while keeping the planning for future phases more general until they are closer to being started. What project planning technique are you using?
Rolling-wave planning
During an NGO's healthcare outreach project, heavy rains make a key route impassable, disrupting your schedule. Is this a risk or an issue?
Issue
a hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the deliverables. It organizes and defines the total work scope of the project, breaking it down into manageable sections that can be easily assigned, monitored, and controlled. This is the definition of .............
Your NGO is working on a project to build community centers in underprivileged areas. Initially, the project plan included building 5 centers with specific features. Midway through the project, stakeholders request additional features such as solar panels, internet access, and extra recreational facilities without increasing the budget or timeline. This situation is an example of what project planning challenge?
Scope creep
While planning a humanitarian aid project in a flood-prone area, you identify the risk of delayed aid delivery due to potential flooding. To address this, you arrange for backup transportation routes and pre-position emergency supplies in nearby safe locations to reduce the impact and likelihood of this risk. What risk response strategy are you using?
Mitigation