Exam 14: Project Closeout and Termination

Loss of team identity is:

What can a project organization do to increase the likelihood of acceptance for the final product of the project?

The difference between a manager with ten years' experience and one with a year's experience ten times is:

The Microserf was in a blind panic;now that the latest version of the Bob operating system was ready for sale,he would have to latch onto a new project team or face life on the mean streets of Redmond.This is indubitably an:

Administrative performance review is an important component of the final project report.Which item is a key facet of administrative performance?

Getting the project signed off may discourage other closeout activities.

A significant challenge during the finishing the work element of project closeout management is to:

A static factor that may lead to early termination for a project is:

The closeout step that requires all contractual documents be recorded and archived is:

In order to facilitate acceptance for the project,the project team should start planning for the project's transfer and use during:

The formalized system of dealing with grievances and administering corrective justice to parties in a bargaining position is:

Static factors that may play a role in the decision to terminate a project early include company image and the presence of high sunk costs.

Surveys on the early warning signs of project failure indicate that a red flag for failure is:

What three guidelines are offered to derive maximum benefit from a lessons-learned meeting? Provide counter examples for each one of these behaviors.

What is arbitration,how does it work,when is it used and what are the two different types?

What are the four major categories in the work breakdown structure for project termination? Provide examples of specific tasks within each of these four categories.

What are the six major categories of factors that may influence the decision to terminate a project early? Provide examples of each.

The departmental patriarch spent his last years at the university developing and promoting a Student Portfolio Project that required all departmental faculty to create integrated course projects and maintain a database of their students' work.New graduates could refer their prospective employers to the Student Portfolio Project database to mine examples of their work.The patriarch retired,funding and effort dried up,and the project lingered in a few syllabi and on the department's web site for a year or two but now any mention of it elicits either puzzled looks or wry grins from the remaining faculty.The patriarch's Student Portfolio Project has officially been terminated by:

Systematic errors are not one-time incidents,but instead represent built-in components of the project management process.

An ex-gratia claim made when a project is closed down is made when: