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Initiating Process Group
Planning Process Group
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Person responsible for putting all the pieces of the project together into one cohesive whole that gets the project done faster, cheaper, and with fewer resources, while meeting the project objectives.
Who is the Project Manager? (Rita, pg 107)
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Name of the document that contains the strategy for managing the project and the proceses related to the knowledge areas of scope, schedule, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management. (Rita, pg 72)
Project Management Plans (Rita, pg 72)
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During team building there are 5 stages of team formation and development aka The Tuckerman Ladder Model. Name 2 of these stages:
1. Forming 2. Storming 3. Norming 4. Performing 5. Adjourning Rita page 356
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Name of the project managers system for authorizing the start of work packages or activities. It is part of the project management information system which is part of the enterprise environmental factors.
What is Work Authorization System Rita, Page 133
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The name of the process that ensures that a project manage gets formal acceptance of the project and its deliverables, issue a final report, lessons learned, archives.
What is Close Project Rita, page 142
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What gives the project manager the authority to spend money and commit corporate resources to the project.
What is The Project Charter Rita~ page 113
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What is the name of one of the outputs of the Collect Requirements Process that helps link product requirements to the objectives to ensure the strategic goals are accomplished.
What is Requirements Traceability Matrix Rita, page 170
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The project manager can exercise 5 forms of power to get cooperation from the team and stakeholders. Name 2:
1. Formal (Legitimate) 2. Reward (Best form of power) 3. Penalty (Coercive, worst form of power) 4. Expert (Best form of power) 5. Referent Rita page 359
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Board that is responsible for reviewing and analyzing change requests in accordance with the change management plan for the project. They will approve, postpone, or reject changes. The results of these decisions are documents in the project change log.
What is Change Control Board Rita page 139
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Name 3 activities in the closing process?
What is 1. confirm work is done to requirements 2. complete procurement closure 3. Gain final acceptance of the product, 4 complete financial closure, 5. handoff completed product, 6 solicit feedback from the customer about the project, 7complete final lperformance reporting, 8 index and archive records, 8 gather final lessons and update knowledge base Rita, page 143
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Name one of the four "Benefit Measurement Methods" aka the Comparative Approach for project selection?
Murder Board Peer Review Scoring Models Economic Models Rita Page 119
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What is a graphical picture of the hierarchy of the project. Also identifies all the deliverables to be completed and is the foundation upon which the project is built?
What is Work Breakdown Structure Rita page 180
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There are 4 motivation theories...McGregor Theory of X and Y, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, David McClelland's Theory, and Herzberg's Theory. Which one believes that people are not motivated by security or money. Instead the highest motivation is to contribute and to use their skills aka "self actualization"
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Rita page 366
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Process that involves frequent, planned meetings with the customer or sponsor to fain formal acceptance of deliverables during project monitoring and controlling.
What is Validate Scope Rita, page 182
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Name the process where you tie up the loose ends verifying that all the work deliverables are accepted, finalize open claims, and paying withheld retainage for each of the procurements on the project.
What is "Close Procurement Rita, page 507
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What type of project selection technique is linear programming?
What is Constrained Optimization Method Rita page 124
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Scheduling technique that uses computer software to simulate the outcome of a project based optimistic, pessimistic, and most likely outcomes for each activity in the network diagram. It is the more accurate method for schedules since it simulates actual details of the project and calculates probability.
What is Monte Carlo Analysis Rita page 234
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What is the name of the process that involves getting the procurement statement of work and other procurement documents, answering sellers questions, reviewing the sellers responses in order to select a seller according to the procurement mgmt plan?
WHat is Conduct Procurements Rita page 494
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Name of the process that measures and assesses work performance data against the scope baseline and manages scope baseline changes.
What is control scope? Rita page 185
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Describe 2 work activities that must be done during procurement closure....
What is Product Validation, Procurement Negotiation, Financial Closure, procurement audit, update to records, final contract performance reporting, lessons learned, creating procurement files. Rita page 509
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What is the present value (PV) of $300,000 received 3 years from now if we express the interest rate to be 10%? Set up the problem but no need to solve.
PV= FV/(1+r)2 PV= 300,000/(1+.1)2 PV= 300,000/1.331 PV= 225,394 Rita page 119
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Name 4 of the 7 basic quality tools that help clarify stakeholders requirements and expectations when it comes to quality and can also help you plan the product and project work appropriately, clarify acceptance criteria, and manage stakeholder expectations. Also referred to the 7QC tools?
1. Cause and Effect Diagram (Fishbone, Ishikawa) 2. Flowchart, 3. Checksheet 4. Pareto Diagram 5. Histogram 6. Control Chart 7. Scatter Diagram
500
The name of an agreement by two parties that will define roles and responsibilities, make things legally binding, mitigate or allocate risk.
What is Contract Rita, page 499
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If the project has deviated from the the baselines, the team may take corrective actions to bring it back in line. Contingency plans are developed in advance, these however are unplanned responses developed to deal with the occurrence of unanticipated events or problems or to deal with risks that have been accepted.
What is workaround? Rita, page 438
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Once formal closure is completed and the seller has received formal signoff from the customer that the product is acceptable, is the project closed? Why?
No. This will only allow procurement closure because it deals with the customer signoff on the "product". Project closure deals with project itself Rita, page 509.