Exam 10: Project Execution

Moving the quality audit responsibility away from the resources that are actually creating the product will not help to promote a nonbiased, impartial evaluation.

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

According to A Guide to the PMBOK (PMI, 2004), ________ is the area where a project manager can have the greatest impact on project quality.

In general, resources who are interested in a project are much easier to motivate and will produce higher-quality work at a higher productivity rate.

These represent ways in which individuals realize and live with processed information.

A collocated team is a group of team members who are working on the same project but are geographically dispersed, such that they may never meet face-to-face.

During project execution, it is not uncommon for a project manager and team to get overwhelmed with trying to get the product or service completed to meet time, cost, scope, and quality goals; often, time is not spent on other key processes, such as communication, risk management, change management, and seller management.

Which of the following is NOT a technique of conflict management?

Thamhain and Wilemon's (1975) research shows that the primary source of ________ changes from one phase to the next.

Explain the difference between quality assurance and quality control.

To understand the difference between quality assurance and quality control, it might help to think of quality assurance as the management section of quality management and quality monitoring and control as the process to highlight the activities that need to be managed.

The Human Resources Management knowledge area consists of the following processes: develop human resource plan, acquire project team, develop project team, and manage project team. During project execution, all of these processes are performed.

List and define the four dimensions of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Tuchman (1965) developed a five-stage maturity model through which all groups move: forming, storming, norming, performing, and advancing.

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

In the Human Resources knowledge area, the quality assurance process is performed during project execution.

Which of the following is NOT a key objective of the process of developing a project team are to improve the competencies (skills) of each team member and to promote teamwork to enhance project performance.

Both thinking and feeling types strive to make rational choices, based on the data received from their information-gathering functions .

The execution phase consists of tools and techniques from five of the nine knowledge areas from the Project Management Institute's project management body of knowledge (PMBOK). Which of the following is NOT one of the five areas?

Describe at least five of the most common IT project-related problems encountered during the project execution phase.