Exam 5: The Project in the Organizational Structure

When the major focus of a project must be on the in-depth application of a technology rather than on minimizing cost, meeting a specific schedule or achieving speedy response to change, the __________ organizational form is apt to be the form of choice.

The __________ manager is typically responsible for a number of related projects, each with its own project manager.

A major contribution of __________ is to establish project administration procedures for selecting, initializing and planning, budgeting, and scheduling projects as well as to serve as a repository for reports on the performance of the planning, budgeting, scheduling, and resource allocation processes.

The project management office is often created by organizations to __________.

__________ is the term that describes the optimization of a subelement of a system, perhaps to the detriment of the overall system.

__________ is defined as inappropriately intense loyalty to the project.

When a project requires the integration of inputs from several functional areas and involves reasonably sophisticated technology, but does not require all the technical specialists to work for the project on a full-time basis, the __________ organizational form should be used.

Discuss the advantages of empowering the project team.

Project priorities are more of a concern in the __________ stages of the project life cycle.

The firm or organization within which the project is being conducted is known as the __________.

A characteristic of __________ projects is that the work these projects can cross time, space, organizational, and cultural boundaries.

The __________ matrix is most similar to the resembles the projectized organizational form.

Identify the major reasons for the rapid growth of project-oriented organizations.

The process of dealing with uncertainties in projects has come to be known as __________.

Explain how a company can go about implementing a PMO.

Identify the statement that is NOT a major advantage of placing a project in the matrix approach.

Identify the statement that is NOT a major advantage of placing a project within a functional element of the parent organization.

This member of the project team is responsible for the efficient production of the product of the process, including the manufacturing engineering, design and production of tooling, production scheduling, and other production tasks.

Subletting tasks out to smaller contractors is known as __________.

The underlying principle of modern organizations is __________ of the human elements in the group.