Exam 14: Advanced Topics in Project Management

Describe the drawbacks of a PMO.

Rural sourcing is the movement of a business process (in whole or in part) done at a company to another company located in a lower cost setting within the same country.

________ is based on the premise that the quality of a production ready system is highly influenced by the quality of the process used to acquire, develop, and maintain it.

Once an organization is ________ at a certain level of maturity, there is no mandatory process or audit procedure that monitors the organization to ensure that it remains at that maturity level.

A collocated team is a team whose members are unable to regularly meet face-to-face, so instead they must use various technologies to communicate.

At this level of CMMI maturity, development follows little to no rules. The project may go from one crisis to the next. The success of the project depends on the skills of individual developers and other team participants. At this level, it is impossible to repeat successes because everything is reinvented with each project.

This resource 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 works with human resources in providing job descriptions, roles and responsibilities, and how to measure performance against those roles and responsibilities.

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

When working with virtual teams, language barriers can crop up, unless everyone is speaking English.

Which of the following is NOT one of the levels of maturity in CMMI?

Insourcing, the opposite of outsourcing, is the movement of a business process within a company to an internal entity (inside the same company) that specializes in that operation.

The change control expert of the PMO is responsible for organizational change management, developing and maintaining issue resolution, and change control processes.

A maturity model is a structured collection of elements (best practices, processes, activities) that describe characteristics of effective ________.

This type of outsourcing is the movement of a business process (in whole or in part) done at a company to another company located in a lower cost setting within the same country.

Insourcing is the movement of a business process (in whole or in part) done at a company to another company located in a lower cost setting within the same country.

This resource of the PMO prepares and executes process quality assurance plans, plus documents and maintains project processes and standards.

Define the three broad levels at which the PMO might operate, according to Kent Crawford (2002), in his book The Strategic Project Office.

Explain why the number of organizations implementing some type of PMO is growing rapidly.

A ________ team is a team whose members are unable to regularly meet face-to-face, so instead they must use various technologies to communicate.