Project Management Fundamentals
Predictive approach
One of the bidders is the brother of a team member from the project...
Disclose the sibling relationship to the project manager
Two teams working through a project trying to reach a win/win...
Collaborate/Problem-solve
Examples of communication styles...
Formal, informal, open
Treating each other with dignity
Respect
A gym space with modular sections.
Hybrid approach
Attempting to sell lower quality materials...
Report the situation to the project manager.
Offering a free membership for a year to project team members is an example of...
Motivation
It interferes with effective communications.
Noise
significant point or event in a project
Milestone
Project is created
Planning
Downloading confidential information to a USB drive.
Report the team member with the USB drive to the immediate manager for the team.
The sponsor is not focusing on what the project manager is saying...
Offensive listening
An example of a project status update
What has been completed within a specific time period.
Contains the formal authorization of a project
Project charter
Project charter is created and approved.
Initiating
Allowing all ideas to be shared during a brainstorming session.
Respect
Raises a potential issue about quality and defects of a new app, but the project manager insist that the app must be relased as is.
Force/direct
Message is easy to understand
Encoding
Where the project objective is found...
Project charter
Defined scope but the scope can change rapidly.
Hybrid
Just realized a gross underestimate of the cost of supplies, instead of covering up the error he lets the project manager know about it.
Responsibility
A team member approaches the project manager insisting on a different way to complete a task, even though there is a better way he accepts the different way of completing the task.
Smooth/accommodate
A weekly communication is sent to team members...
Push
When the project sponsors signs off that the project is completed
The work is formally accepted as completed