Exam 14: Advanced Topics in Project Management

The chief project officer of the PMO owns project management for the enterprise, business unit, or department. Expert and mentor in all areas of project management.

This resource of the PMO handles consolidating and managing of project plans, including schedule development, budgeting, and resources.

This level of CMMI maturity is characterized by requirements management, project planning, project tracking and oversight, subcontract management, quality assurance, and configuration management.

This type of outsourcing is the movement of a business process (in whole or in part) to companies in a nearby country, often sharing a border with the company's own country.

This resource of the PMO handles external and internal communications related to projects within the PMO.

Which of the following is a technology being used today to facilitate virtual communication?

The project management office (PMO) is an organizational entity (for example, group, department, business unit) with full-time personnel assigned to provide a wide range of project management support and services across an entire ________.

Maturity models are not a "silver bullet" that, once implemented, will address all the ills of the organization.

Outsourcing has decreased in importance for many organizations to compete in a global economy and to find needed resources.

Describe at least three ethical issues that many IT workers deal with.

Define the five levels of CMMI maturity.

Ethics are defined as beliefs regarding right and wrong ________.

This type of outsourcing is the movement of a business process (in whole or in part) done at a company in one country to another company in another, different country.

The project management office (PMO) is an organizational entity (for example, group, department, business unit) with full-time personnel assigned to provide a wide range of project management support and services across an entire organization.

A maturity model is an unstructured collection of elements (best practices, processes, activities) that describe characteristics of effective processes.

A maturity model might also be used as a benchmark for ________ other like organizations for comparison.

Researchers estimate that ________ percent of communication is nonverbal, transferred by body language and facial expressions.

This resource of the PMO develops and maintains project management methodology and processes.

Outsourcing can involve a number of different types of outsourcing (for example, nearshoring, offshoring, and rural sourcing); this is called insouring, or best-of-breed sourcing.

The project librarian of the PMO maintains a repository of project knowledge (records, standards, methods, and lessons learned).