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Project Management For Barry University

______________are the people involved in or affected by project activities and include the project sponsor, project team, support staff, customers, users, suppliers, and even opponents of the project

Projects are often defined narrowly when they begin.

Managing the triple constraint involves making trade-offs between scope, time, and cost goals for a project

When you separate business and organizational issues from project management planning, you do a better job of ensuring project success

External project stakeholders generally include the project sponsor, project team, support staff, and internal customers for the project.

Information technology is usually a support function in an organization.

A milestone list is an output list associated with the Project Scope Management knowledge area.

Strategic planning involves determining long-term objectives by analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of an organization, studying opportunities and threats in the business environment, predicting future trends, and projecting the need for new products and services.

The organization should complete low-priority projects before high-priority ones, if the low-priority ones take less time.

The project scope statement should provide basic scope information, and the preliminary project scope statement should continue to clarify and provide information that is more specific.

If you want some time-based flow for the work, you can create a WBS using the project management process groups of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing as level 1 in the WBS.

The WBS is often dissected further during the activity definition process as the project team members further define the activities required for performing the work.

The critical path always includes the most critical activities

If a project manager gets sick for two weeks or an important supplier goes out of business, management reserve could be set aside to cover the resulting costs.

Bottom-up models are based on historical information and use parameters that are readily quantifiable. These models are flexible in terms of the size of the project

The ___________focuses on different groups' roles and responsibilities in order to meet the goals and policies set by top management.

The __________assumes that organizations are coalitions composed of varied individuals and interest groups

A common ___________is performance reporting, where project stakeholders can identify any necessary changes that may be required to keep the project on track.

The project cost management knowledge area maps to the _________process group through the activities of cost estimating and cost budgeting.

The outputs of ___________include approved and rejected change requests, approved corrective and preventive actions, approved and validated defect repair, deliverables, and updates to the project management plan and project scope statement.

In which information technology planning stage do organizations document key business processes that could benefit from information technology?

__________involves formalizing acceptance of the project scope. Key project stakeholders, such as the customer and sponsor for the project, inspect and then formally accept the deliverables of the project during this process

Generally, each work package in a WBS should represent roughly ___hours of effort.

In the________ , you use a similar project's WBS as a starting point

Outputs from_________ include performance measurements, requested changes, recommended corrective actions, and updates to the schedule model data, the schedule baseline, organizational process assets, the activity list and attributes, and the project management plan.

The _____is a network diagramming technique in which boxes represent activities.

Enterprise environmental factors, organizational process assets, the project scope statement, activity list, activity attributes, activity resource requirements, resource calendars, and the project management plan all include information that affect__________.

__________allow for future situations that are unpredictable.

A _________is done very early in a project or even before a project is officially started.

___________involve estimating individual work items or activities and summing them to get a project total

_________, loosely defined, is a set of principles that guide our decision making based on personal values of what is "right" and "wrong."

A(n) _________is a framework for describing the phases involved in developing information systems.

The ___________plan coordinates and encompasses information from all other plans.

___________is often the most difficult and unappreciated process in project management.

Even though many information technology projects can be completed quickly, it is still important to ___________ them.

A WBS can also be shown in ___________ form as an indented list of tasks that shows the same groupings of the work.

A(n) ___________ is a schematic display of the logical relationships among, or sequencing of, project activities.

___________uses project characteristics in a mathematical model to estimate project costs.

__________ and SPI less than one or less than 100 percent indicate problems.

Many organizations now collect and control an entire suite of projects or investments as one set of interrelated activities in one place, called a(n) __________.

One attribute that helps define a project is that a project has a unique purpose

A project should be developed using progressive elaboration, starting from specific details and broadening in scope as it progresses.

Because projects involve uncertainty and limited resources, projects rarely finish according to discrete scope, time, and cost goals originally planned.

A program is "a group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually."

Project managers often take on the role of both leader and manager.

The project _________usually provides direction and funding for the project.

The limitations of scope, time, and cost goals are sometimes referred to as the_______.

Project _________management involves defining and managing all the work required to complete the projec

Project _________management is concerned with making effective use of the people involved with the project

A Gantt chart displays a project's start and finish dates in a__________ format.