Exam 2: Project Management

During organizational feasibility analysis the system users are the stakeholders that are responsible for providing enough budget and promoting the project.

The person or group that funds a project and enthusiastically promotes the project throughout the organization is the project champion.

A normal system with 400 unadjusted function points would have _____ adjusted function points when the shortcut method is use to determine the complexity of the project.

When estimating project time schedules using industry standards, the estimated project completion time for a systems project would be _____ person-months if the actual planning phase were completed in 6 person-months.

Matching people's skills with the needs of the project, motivating employees, and minimizing personnel conflict are all part of the staffing process.

According to leading experts in software development, the margin of error when estimating project costs is 100% and the margin of error in project scheduling time is 25%.

Project managers can develop task lists for a project with the help of _____.

Use-case point-based estimation also has a set of factors that are used to adjust the use-case point value.

Explain different sections of a system request.

PERT chart can be used to track the tasks of a project when task time estimates are fairly uncertain.

A(n) ____________ is a measure of program size based on the number and complexity of inputs, outputs, queries, files, and program interfaces.

The level of acceptance by the users of a system and the extent to which the new system will be incorporated into the operations of the organization are expressed in the _____ feasibility.

The organizational management of a business is involved in hands-on activities related to the project.

The project team has just determined that the deadline for completion will not be met. In order to deliver a high quality system on schedule, the team has requested that the features be prioritized and that a fixed deadline be imposed for the project. This technique is referred to as SDLC methodology.

Why is it important for systems developers to consider the area of organizational politics when creating a new system?

_____ is the process of examining the technical, economic, and organizational pros and cons of developing a new system.

ROI calculations do not consider the present value of future money.

The science (or art) of project management is in making trade-offs among three important concepts: the functionality of the system, the time to complete the project, and the reliability of the project.

Michelle has decided to use a shortcut to determine the complexity of the project she is currently managing. She has assigned the adjusted project complexity (PCA) a value of 1.35. By assigning a value of 1.35 for PCA, she has determined that her project is complex.

A critical success factor for project management is to _____.