The Basics
What are the 3 things that make up a project?
What are a goal, a deadline, and resources?
Is this a task or a project?
Post the video to YouTube.
A task.
When time is cut short, what prioritization model can you use to review which tasks can be cut?
What is MoSCoW?
Name 2 industries that might use a project manager.
Healthcare, Music, Event Planning, Video Game/ Electronics, Construction, Finance, Government/Defense, IT, Marketing
In 2023, this social media company rebranded from a bird logo to a single letter in just a few weeks after new ownership took over — a fast, deadline-driven overhaul with very little transition planning.
What is Twitter (now X)?
Anyone affected by, or invested in, a project's outcome.
What is a stakeholder?
Following through on what you said you'd do.
What is accountability?
What are the 4 categories of MoSCoW?
Must have, Should have, Could have, and Wont have.
A music artist planning a world tour has to manage venues, travel, and a big team — this is the term for the people/money/materials/time needed to pull it off.
What are resources?
This EV company revealed its angular pickup truck in 2019 but didn't actually deliver it to customers until 2023 — a classic example of a deadline slipping years past the original plan.
What is Tesla (the Cybertruck)?
What is the difference between a goal and the scope?
Goals provide direction, whereas scopes manage execution.
A task that can't start until another task is finished.
What is a dependency?
Your backup plan if a risk actually happens.
What is a contingency plan?
True or False: Marketing campaigns are an example of an Agile project — a team might launch a small version of an ad campaign, see what performs, and quickly adjust messaging or targeting rather than committing to one big fixed plan.
True
In 2020, Instagram rushed to launch this short-video feature in just a few months to directly compete with TikTok's explosive growth.
What are Reels?
A checkpoint along the way that shows progress.
What is a milestone?
Handing off a task to someone else to complete.
What is delegation?
If you shrink the timeline but keep the quality the same, this is usually what has to give.
What is cost?
When a movie studio keeps adding reshoots, new characters, and extra scenes after filming was supposed to be done, driving the budget way over — this is the term for the project quietly growing past its original goal.
What is scope creep?
In 2024, the U.S. passed a law giving this app's parent company a strict deadline to sell it or face a ban — turning an entire company's future into a project with a hard, government-enforced due date.
What is TikTok?
Explain the timeline and deadline.
Timeline is how long you have to do it, and the deadline is when it should be completed by.
What is the difference between Agile and Waterfall projects?
Agile planning style completes tasks in short bursts, checking in and adjusting.
Waterfall planning style plans everything up front, then executes step by step.
Halfway through a project, a key task is delayed because a teammate drops out. The team still has the same deadline. What's the FIRST thing a good project manager should do — go back to square one, panic, or reassess and adjust the plan?
What is reassess and adjust the plan?
A project has a generous budget and a flexible deadline, but the client keeps asking for 'just one more thing' every week. Which corner of the Iron Triangle is actually staying fixed here, and what's the term for what's happening to the project as a result?
What is Quality (staying fixed/protected) — and what is scope creep (happening as a result)?
In July 2023, Meta launched this Twitter-rival app in just days, riding Instagram's existing user base to fast-track a project that normally would've taken much longer to build an audience for.
What is Threads?