17.2 Project life cycle

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4.     Why is an evaluation stage an important part of the life cycle?

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.    Why is it important to take notes at a project meeting?

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7.    What is the purpose of having an agenda for a project meeting?

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8.    Describe what an action point should contain. Give an example of a well written action point.

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9.    A new project comes in to design and make a hand-held scanner for use in libraries. You are asked to run an FMEA meeting on the project. What does FMEA stand for?

• a.    Fast manufacture effect analysis

• b.    Failure mode and effect analysis

• c.    Final make evidence archive

• d.    Failure market effect assumptions

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10.    You call your meeting. Who should you invite?

• a.    Everyone who works at the company

• b.    Anyone who might be involved in the project

• c.    Your immediate line manager and a member of the HR department

• d.    The customer and someone from the sales department

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11.    At the meeting someone suggests that there might be a problem with staffing if the project runs over the Easter weekend. Should you:

• a.    Ignore the suggestion, it is too early to think about that

• b.    Stop the meeting and call in the manager

• c.    Write it down as a suggestion and discuss it

• d.    Leave it for the next meeting

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12.    The customer has suggested that the new scanner case should be made entirely of aluminium but you know that it will be lighter made of injection moulded ABS polymer. What should you do?

• a.    Contact the customer and discuss this. They may change their mind or have a good reason to stick with aluminium

• b.    Design it out of aluminium anyway; that is what the customer asked for

• c.    Design it to be made of ABS; they obviously made a mistake

• d.   Look at what other companies make their scanners from and copy that