Exam 3: The Project Manager

The project manager's responsibility to the project and to the client is met by ensuring that the __________ of the project is preserved in spite of conflicting demands made by stakeholders.

The functional manager uses the __________ approach and the PM uses the __________ approach.

Resources initially budgeted for a project are frequently __________ for the task,partly because of natural optimism by the proposer about how many resources are needed.

What is scope creep?

Compare and contrast the analytic and systems approaches.As part of your answer,be sure to indicate which part of project leadership is likely to use each approach.

A project manager must make trade-off decisions between the project,the firm,and _____.

The __________ is a person who spearheads an idea or action and sells it throughout the organization.

The project manager needs __________ credibility.

The ability to sense conflict early,then confront and deal with it before the conflict escalates into interdepartmental and intradepartmental warfare is which of the following attributes?

The project manager's responsibilities are broad and fall primarily into three separate areas.Responsibilities to _____________ is not one of these.

The Tuckman ladder suggest that teams progress through four development phases.Those phases are listed below.Match each phase with its description. A)Forming B)Storming C)Norming D)Performing 1)Teams function as a cohesive unit focused on accomplishing the goals of the project. 2)Team members come together for the first time and begin learning about their roles and responsibilities. 3)In this phase,the team members begin to establish team norms and team cohesiveness develops.Individual team members reconcile their behaviors to support the overall team,and trust develops. 4)Work on the project begins,but initially the team members tend to work independently,which often leads to conflict.

A __________ is a person who helps people overcome problems,either with technical issues or with other people.

Which of the following is not typically recommended to be considered when hiring new team members?

The project manager should be more skilled at __________,whereas the functional manager should be more skilled at __________.

The __________ represents everything outside the system that delivers inputs or receives outputs from the system.

During the buildup stage of a project life cycle,__________ is the dominant goal of many project managers.

Projects are conducted in four important environments.They are __________.

According to the authors,the key to coping with uncertainty at the end of a project (a common obstacle for project managers)is __________.

__________ is the entire way of life for a group of people.It contains the four elements of technology,institutions,language,and arts.

The ideal project manager should be __________.