Project Manager/Project Charter
"Responsible for developing a definition of the project; ensures that the project is delivered on time, to budget and to the required quality standard; ensures the project is effectively resourced and manager relationships with a wide range of groups; maintains a cooperative, motivated and successful team." This describes the ________ of a Project Manager
Responsibilities of a Project Manager
The process of identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project, and documenting relevant information regarding their interests, involvement, and impact on project success.
Identifying Stakeholders
Following a period of research, Tuckman developed a fifth stage called ‘adjourning’. This final stage involves the disengagement of relationships between team members and a short period of recognition for the team’s achievements. Sometimes, concluding the operations of a team is disturbing for members, especially if they have worked together for long periods of time creating a brief time of mourning.
Adjourning
Initiating goes with which of Tuckman's stages
Forming
Defines how a project is executed, monitored and controlled.
Project Management Plan
Inputs-->tools and techniques-->output
Describes the Charter ____ Chart
Charter flow chart
Judgment or expertise should be sought from groups or individuals with specialized training or knowledge on the subject matter.
Expert Judgement
The group members rely on safe, patterned behavior and look to the group leader for guidance and direction. During this stage, the team becomes oriented to the task and goals are defined. Behaviors between group members are typically polite and non-threatening. To move to the next stage, group members must relinquish the comfort of non-threatening topics and risk the possibility of conflict.
Forming
Executing goes with which of Tuckman's stages
Norming
Specific version of the schedule model that compares actual results to the plan to determine if it is preventative or corrective action.
Schedule Baseline
Narrative description of products or services to be delivered by the project.
Statement of Work (SOW)
formal or informal approach to discover information from stakeholders by talking to them directly.
Interview
interpersonal skills are characterized by competition and conflict. As group member attempt to organize for the task, conflicts occur. Individuals are forced to mold their feelings, ideas, attitudes, and beliefs to suit the group organization. Cliques are formed. Questions arise to roles, responsibilities, rules, rewards and evaluation. During this stage leadership is often challenged. In order to progress to the next stage, group member must move from testing and challenging beliefs to a problem-solving mentality. Communication, particularly the ability to listen, must be stressed to team members.
Storming
Monitoring goes with which of Tuckman's stages
Performing
Provides a budgeting tool for measuring how the project changes affect the budget
Cost Performance Baseline
Signatures from project sponsor, client, and other key players of the project
Acceptance
The primary stakeholders are usually...
(get 3 out of 4)
investors, employees, customers, and suppliers.
interpersonal relations are characterized by cohesion. Group members are engaged in active acknowledgement of all members’ contributions, community building and solving of group issues. Leadership is now shared and cliques are dissolved. Team members would as a whole to share feelings and ideas, solicit and give feedback to one another, and explore actions related to the task. Creativity is at its highest. The focus of the group is on the task and not on individual personalities; however, the group may be resistant to change as they now function as a unit.
Norming
Planning goes with which of Tuckman's stages
storming
Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement
Scope Baseline
Defines the "why" of a project, what problem your project is attempting to solve.
Objectives
technique of systematically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interests should be taken into account throughout the project.
Stakeholder Analysis
The performing stage is not reached by all groups. If group members are able to move beyond the norming stage, their capacity, range, and depth of personal relations expand to true interdependence. In this stage, people work independently, in subgroups, or as a total unity with equal facility. Their roles and authority adjusts to meet the changing needs of the group. At this stage, the group is the most productive. Group members are both highly task oriented and people oriented. The overall goal is productivity through problem solving and work.
Performing
Closing goes with which of Tuckman's stages
Mourning
Defines each deliverable and further breaks down deliverable into smaller tasks
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