Exam 5: Project Scope and Human Resource Planning

When crafting the initial or early staffing plan and project schedule, never start with a plan that requires resources to work overtime to complete the project successfully.

Explain "analysis paralysis" and its impact on project planning.

The top-down approach is the fastest path to a completed WBS.

How is scope definition accomplished?

The project manager must use a process that allows and encourages stakeholder involvement in the definition of the product scope.

One of the key uses of the scope management plan is to prevent ________.

List three or more questions that need to be addressed with respect to documenting how requirements will be managed.

The WBS dictionary is the repository for detailed information about the WBS.

Project teams make their most expensive (in terms of both time and money) mistakes during the planning phase of a project.

Describe the characteristics that define the size and depth of the scope statement.

When the product and project requirements have been discovered and documented and the scope statement has been created, the next step is to begin building the work breakdown structure (WBS).

The three deliverables from the human resources planning part of the project plan are: the project roles and responsibilities matrix, the project organizational chart, and the staffing management plan.

Inadequate planning is one of the major reasons that many projects never get completed.

Which of the following is NOT an element of the staff management plan?

The requirements discovery and analysis is done not by the project manager but by skilled ________.

________ managers receive support because the project team has great faith in their abilities, based on their personal presence.

Which of the following is NOT a key deliverable of scope planning?

List the topics that make up the project plan.

Explain the 100 percent rule as it relates to the WBS.

Which of the following is NOT a level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?