Exam 2: The Organizational Context: Strategy, Structure, and Culture

A project management office is designed to oversee or improve the management of projects without stripping responsibility from the project manager.

The Larson and Gobeli study that compared projects that had been managed in a variety of structural types revealed that both new product development and construction projects tended to be LEAST effectively executed when the organizational structure was a:

Individuals are commonly organized into departments for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

The PMO is used as a tracking and monitoring device under the:

Consider your weekly routine and how it might be managed as a pure project structure.What changes would be required for you to convert from a process mentality to a project mentality?

A functional organization structure is a weakness for project management because:

A failing project becomes a black hole for money,time,and personnel as management continues to pour resources into it despite the growing expectation that it will fail miserably.This phenomenon is known in project management circles as:

A project structure for an organization is a peach when you consider how well it:

The tendency of employees in a functionally organized company to become fixated on their own concerns and work assignments to the exclusion of the needs of other departments is known as:

Develop a TOWS matrix for a Fortune 100 firm that has announced a new project within the past year.Demonstrate how the new project,which could be any revenue-generating new product or service,fits or doesn't fit the organization based on your TOWS analysis.

Compare the organizational culture among the students in this class with a contrasting student organizational culture from another class at this or another institution.Identify key differences in how these two different cultures developed using factors discussed in this book.

The PMO is used to protect and support the skill of project management under the:

The tale of Professor Larry Foster and his grade book filled with Fs was told by one generation of faculty to the next with a mix of envy,awe and delight.If there was one thing you could be sure of,there was no grade inflation in his department,whose culture was formed primarily by:

Centralized units within an organization or department that oversee or improve the management of projects are called:

Which of the following statements about culture is BEST?

External stakeholders that are external to a project but possess the power to effectively disrupt the project's development are:

Span of control refers to:

What are three ways that organizational culture impacts project management?

Internal stakeholder analysis looks at a project's customers and determines whether their needs are being met.

Define the term stakeholder and discuss the major groups of stakeholders.