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project midterm
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- 1What is a project?Has a start and a finish
Requires a plan
Has stakeholders
Has costs - 2Stages of a ProjectInitiating
Planning
Executing
Monitoring and Controlling
Closing - 3Name three things done during the initiation phase of a project?A Project Request Form (PRF) or SOW is created
A Project Charter is created
The charter is reviewed by Subject Matter Experts - 4Name three things done during the planning phase of a project?Project kick off meeting is held
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is developed
Project Schedule is developed - 5Name three things done in the monitoring phase of a project?Build it
Implement it
Test it
Fix it - 6Name three things done in the closing stage of a project?Create End Project Report
Project Closure Meeting
Get Paid - 7Draw the flow of SOW to Project Plan on the board.sow-projecct charter-project scope-procject plan
- 8Name three of the five team forming stages of Tuckmans modelForming
Storming
Norming
Performing - 9What happens in the Performing stage of Tuckmans modelClear vision and purpuse
focus on goal achivment
Delegation - 10Name three possible areas of conflict in a project.Conflict over project priorities/goals
Conflict over administrative procedures
Conflict over cost
Personality conflict - 11Name three things that should be in a project charterStakeholders
High-level Project Description
Project Success Criteria - 12Who should be a project stakeholder?Management
Clients
Team members - 13What is the difference between a Business needs and a product/service requirement?The customer business needs are best understood by answering the question, “what problem does our customer(s) want to solve by using the final deliverable?
The customer product/service requirements are the specific features the customer is looking for in the final deliverable - 14What is an SOW and who initiates it?Created by the organization or sponsor that is going to use the end result
- 15What is the purpose of the project charter?A document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and documents the initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholder’s needs and expectations
- 16What is the project scope?Formalizes everything to be done as part of the project
- 17What is the project triple constraint?Scope
time
cost and inside quiality - 18What are the steps used to create a project scope?Collect Requirements
Develop a detailed description of the project/product
Write goals
Define deliverables based on the goals
Customer communication plan
Verify - 19What are the components of a SMART goalSpecific
Mesurable
Action oriented
realistic
time based - 20What is scope creep and how do you best prevent it?An unforeseen change in the project due to poor definition or poor planning
- 21What are the four basic elements of a project?Resources
Time
Money
Scope - 22What are the three types of MS Project resources?Work Resources - People and Equipment
Materials
Cost - 23What is the formula MS Project uses to calculate task times?Duration = Work/assignment Units
- 24type of tasks in MS projectFixed Units
Fixed Work
Fixed Duration - 25What is a fixed duration task?the task time will not decrease even if you assign more resources to it
- 26What is a Gantt chart?A Gantt chart, commonly used in project management, is one of the most popular and useful ways of showing activities (tasks or events) displayed against time
- 27What is the difference between manual and automatic scheduling of tasks in Microsoft Project?Manual means the user schedules the resources and automatic means MS project does it
- 28What is a project task?task is an activity that needs to be accomplished within a defined period of time or by a deadline to work towards work-related goals
- 29What is a project milestone?A milestone is a task of zero duration that shows an important achievement in a project
- 30What are the four types of task dependencies in Microsoft Project?Finish-to-Start
Start-to-Start
Finish-to-Finish
Start-to-Finish - 31What is a tasks lead or lag value mean in a Microsoft Project TaskLead time: This is an overlap between two tasks that are linked by a dependency.
Lag time: This is a delay between two tasks that are linked by a dependency
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