Exam 10: Project Execution

The project management life cycle and the product life cycle are most visibly integrated during the project execution phase.

The first step in the process of resource selection is looking at a prospective team member's nontechnical skills, consisting of personality traits, communication skills, interest and motivation factors, and business knowledge.

These are referred to as the decision-making (judging) functions.

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

The deliverables from the quality assurance process are requested process changes, corrective actions, and updates to any project documentation affected.

The two key objectives of the process of developing a project team are to define staff assignments and to promote teamwork to enhance project performance.

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): Integration Management, Quality Management, Human Resource Management, Communications Management, and Risk Management.

The process of ________ project teams is about finding out why the numbers are what they are by knowing what is going on with members of the team and, if needed, implementing corrective actions to improve performance.

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS) is based on the early work of the MBTI but contains just ________ temperaments, not 16.

Explain the role and objective of the quality audit.

A project manager has more control over the product deliverables than over the processes that are used.

What are the key deliverables of the process of acquiring project teams?

The outputs from the develop team process are mostly ________, such as lower team turnover rates, higher productivity, and higher quality of deliverables.

A(n) ________ 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.

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.

Just as the phases in the project management life cycle overlap, so do the project management and product life cycles.

Introverts tend to act, then reflect, and then act further, while extroverts tend to reflect before acting, act, and then reflect again.

The role of this group is to ensure that everyone on the project team is following the defined quality processes.

In the ________ Management knowledge area, the quality assurance process is performed during project execution.

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