Exam 3: Planning the Project

Which of the following is most closely associated with FMEA?

The letters used in the RACI matrix help link a person and a task for accountability purposes.

Insurance is a part of risk management.

A representative of senior management should be invited to the project launch meeting.

The project baseline plan is the open, honest, and frequent communication between the interested parties of a project.

Associated with the scrum methodology are well-defined team roles, artifacts, and events.

One of the problems with mind mapping is that it is relatively difficult to convert into work breakdown structure (WBS).

Which of the following is not one of the eight steps in the project planning process?

A limitation of traditional project management planning tools is that they do not address the flow of information.

Duncan, a project manager, has to create a work breakdown structure (WBS) for a new project. He gathers the project team and provides them with a pad of sticky-notes. After defining the project objectives and the major activities that would need to be done to achieve those objectives, he asks his team members to write all the tasks that they think would be required to complete the project on the sticky-notes. These notes are then stuck on a wall in a sequential manner. In this scenario, Duncan uses a(n) _____ to create the WBS.

Renee, a project manager, is responsible for developing a project plan for her new project. To do so, she needs to consider all the tasks that would need to be done to produce the deliverable and make a list of them. In this scenario, Renee needs to prepare a(n) _____ for the project.

Developing measures for the probability of the risk and its impact on the project.

In the Design Structure Matrix

A project champion is usually the senior manager with responsibility for the project.

Imelda, a professor of management studies, wants to organize a collaborative project with her students to help them understand various aspects of marketing. She writes down the project goal in a circle in the center of a large sheet of paper. She and her students then brainstorm to identify the tasks that must be done to achieve the goal. She asks the students to write each task in a circle on the sheet and draw lines connecting the various circles. In this scenario, Imelda is using a process called _____.

It is acceptable to restrict the launch meeting to brainstorming a problem.

The manager of a project causes a catastrophic failure in the project that threatens the timely delivery of the project. Frank, another project manager, is asked to take over. He initiates a backup plan created by him, and he takes critical steps to recover from the setback and salvage the project. In this scenario, Frank is most likely using a(n) _____.

Taken together the RACI and the Work Breakdown Structure may be used to determine the importance of each task listed.

Mind mapping is a whole-brain approach that is particularly applicable to project management.

These are held at the beginning of each workday of the sprint.