Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve goals and meet success criteria at a specified time. The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints. Pass this test to Ace at Project management!
Scheduling, planning, executing, managing and closing.
Planning, budgeting, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
Initiating, planning, budgeting, executing, and closing.
Time
Scope
Budget
Risk
Keep creating, modifying, and building upon the raw ingredients of your project, in an organized way, in order to achieve the project's specific goal (also referred to as the product of the project).
Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more-detailed and specific information an more accurate estimates become available.
Process of planning for a project in waves as the project becomes clearer and unfolds.
A single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated.
Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives.
Sum of all projects in a company. Projects are managed and assessed in terms of operative benefits and corporate strategic alignment by means of project portfolio management.
Designed to achieve a defined business objective or benefit.
Groups projects so they can be managed as a portfolio.
Group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.
Organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain.
Delegated the authority to act as an integral stakeholder and key decision maker during the beginning of each project.
Projects or programs may not necessarily be interdependent or directly related.
Identifying and developing project management methodology, best practices, and standards.
Manage program staff and satisfies needs of customer.
Achieves organizational goals and objectives through change management and communication.
Group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.
Relating projects and portfolios.
Keeping project objectives on track and consistent with the project scope.
Providing project management support functions to actually being responsible for the direct management of the project.
Making key decisions for each and every project under its domain.
Coordinating communication across projects.
Coaching, mentoring, training and oversight.
Hires and negotiates all project managers for projects within portfolio or programs.
Managing shared resources across all projects administered.
Developing a new order system.
Updating a staff management plan weekly.
Creating a new database for customer analysis.
Starting phase 2 of an Accounting software upgrade.
Employee morals
Marketplace conditions
Political climate
Organizational culture, structure, and processes
Starting the project, organizing and preparing, carrying out the project work, and closing the project.
Initiating the project, planning the project, carrying out the project work, and closing the project.
Starting the project, planning the project, carrying out the project work, and closing the phase.
Starting the project, carrying out the project work, organizing, and closing the project.
Organizing and preparing.
Closing the project.
Starting the project.
Carrying out the work.
Organizing and preparing.
Closing the project.
Starting the project.
Carrying out the work.
Held constant from the beginning of the project to the end of the project.
Highest at the start of the project and decreases as the project progresses towards completion.
Lowest at the start of the project and decreases as the project progresses towards completion.
Highest at the start of the project and continues to increase as the project progresses towards completion.
Increases substantially as the project approaches completion.
Decreases substantially as the project approaches completion.
Remains constant as the project approaches completion.
Increase and decrease as the project approaches completion.
Two or more.
One or more.
Zero or one.
Five or more.
Phase Points
Kill Gates
Decision Points
Milestones
Communications Plan.
Project Management Plan.
Quality Management Plan.
Risk Management Plan.
Review of the stakeholders list.
Review of the deliverables to determine completeness and acceptance.
Sign-off by the project sponsor.
Approval to move onto the next phase.
An overlapping relationship.
A sequential relationship.
An iterative relationship.
Multi-phase relationship.
An overlapping relationship.
An iterative relationship.
A sequential relationship.
Multi-phase relationship.
An iterative relationship.
Multi-phase relationship.
An overlapping relationship.
A sequential relationship.
Extend the timeline and raise costs substantially.
Have both a positive and negative end result.
Increase likelihood of failure of stakeholder relationships.
Reduce cohesiveness amongst the project team members.
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