Exam 10: Project Execution

Conflict management involves ________, managing, or resolving conflicts as they occur throughout a project.

Which of the following Human Resources Management knowledge area process is NOT performed during project execution?

The key deliverables of the process of acquiring project teams are defined staff assignments and updates to the staffing management plan.

The goal of the execution phase is to work on each task defined in the ________ to produce the identified outcomes and to follow the defined or as-changed project schedule.

The highest percentage of time on a project-hours worked-occurs during the project ________ phase.

List and describe the three general categories of conflict on projects.

The Communications Management knowledge area from the PMBOK consists of the following processes: identify stakeholders, plan communications, distribute information, manage stakeholders, and report performance.

The first step in the process of acquiring the project team is to understand the skills necessary to perform the technical functions required.

On most, if not all, medium to large IT projects, a project manager will never see any of the application code generated by the software developers and must spend time influencing the ________ that will lead to better-written software.

Posner's (1986) research listed conflict over ________ as number one, followed by cost and budget issues and then project priorities.

On most, if not all, medium to large IT projects, a project manager will never see any of the application code generated by the software developers and must spend time influencing the processes that will lead to better-written software.

Kezsbom's (1992) findings show that goals and priority definition is the highest ranking ________ category, followed by personality and interpersonal conflict, followed by problems in communication and information flow.

Judgment people tend to organize all life events and act according to their defined plans. They focus on goals, planning, and strategies designed to reach their defined goal.

________ is a discussion intended to produce an agreement.

The tools and techniques of a project's execution phase exist in which PMBOK knowledge areas? Also, what are their associated processes?

Judgment/Perception are referred to as the information-gathering (perceiving) functions.

A project manager will spend 5 percent of his or her time dealing with some form of conflict.

A project manager has more control over the ________ that are used than over the product deliverables, such as each line of code.

These are referred to as the information-gathering (perceiving) functions.

The quality assurance process is focused on the processes required to produce the desired results defined in the quality plan.