Exam 1: Introduction: Why Project Management

Why is project management considered an excellent training ground for future senior executives in many organizations?

The project maturity model developed by the Center for Business Practices would have ________ rings if a spider-web diagram were used.

One model of project success offered in the chapter looks beyond the current project into the future. Comment on the elements of this model and their impact along the timeline from project completion to well beyond this point in time.

The special nature of projects relieves project managers from their routine of planning, organizing, motivating, directing, and controlling.

Projects, rather than repetitive tasks, are now the basis for most value-added in business.

The classic triple constraint standard for project performance is composed of time, cost, and client acceptance.

In the Atkinson model of project success, stakeholder benefits NOT accrued by the organization might include:

Which of these factors are essentially complete opposites from an intensity perspective across the project life cycle?

Which of these factors are highly similar from an intensity perspective across the project life cycle?

A project exists outside of the standard line organization.

All groups that are affected by a project are known by this name:

Project members may be from:

In the Atkinson model of project success, a project's impact to the surrounding community would be classified as:

The Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide definition of a project indicates that a project is:

Among the maturity models presented in this chapter, the one term that could be used to characterize the lowest level of each is:

What changes in the business environment have necessitated a greater use of project management skills?

A spider-web diagram is useful for:

The only component that does NOT exhibit a wave throughout the project life cycle is the:

The project success criteria that functions as a quality check is:

Geoffco's project manager names three individuals and requests a project budget of $3,000,000 for the new 8-Pod, a backpack-sized personal music player for 8-track tapes capable of holding up to 100 songs from the '60s and '70s. This important step takes place during ________ of the project life cycle.